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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-08-01

The Illinois Democratic and Ii
beral Republican State Central Com
mittees met in joint session at Spring
field, ILL.,, and selected Il full electoral
ticket, with ex-Goy. Brass and Judge
Cation as electors at large.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-08-01

GRANTEES say there was no enthu-
siasm at Baltimore Democrats will
make it lively enough for them before
snow falls.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-10-31

! :" the duar SAVIOR said So
Ethou@ht A. two littlc creatures stood
before me with tfusst .,ck>. and hlue
Int,ning glories between their FINGERS
I"h'yh were to he my pcrlnisitos. No
Rem upon halEoptpci rosebud, not
the ligst anil, upon your own first baby :
| lips, goEh breathe more purely of
heaven than the prcsrnce of these h;tlc.
ones
't'"iug to walk lh,s pleasant morn
Iwe . sad ! 10 tbc soupgcr Of the
| ,wau
We don't VAR 1hunds,s SAID tho
httIr li@pyr with 4 dccoroas twitch of
her drr,s, q, she ca,t down her Ioun
| Icy,.~bo, and .auoothrd a Wtu.Ale on
her SUNDAY dress
Not walk Sundays was aboat Ia
o>chm Why SUNDAY -ocm, to ~, 4
N",l good day on which, to walL sun
! day Is "ytpwhcrc It, iu that prr,t>
huwcr Ia your hand which tod painted
! SO beaUuial a blue H., IN that half.
op"ued rose bud So like yourself. made
to hlo@~on Ikea flower ia God d's garden.
(ta "a that sparkling dew drop hung
ou that bladc OF grass at your tiny foot
tt'e IN that busy bee. come ont to yet
the braahta,t which cod cooked for
him on SUNDAY morning. lt's even in
yom htIIc Kitty whom Cod dont c<-
poet to fold her raa~ and keep fron
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-10-31

{ ''N"- ''..' ''
The roalia~ aui best way to find
|out what future daN- Will be is GO do
present duty
-Lcarnr@ hath gained most by
| those books by which printers have
/ lost.
| -Mqlerujunis is the silkcn strjn-
running through the pearl chain oG all
virtues,
Tho timil man j. alarmed hctore
The danger, the coward dUrirg IT, and
the brave man after it.
Tho love OF glory can only create a
hero; the contempt otit creates wise
man, ~Iai'cyraad.
As daylight can be seen through
very >mall holes, so little things will
illustrate a Persons character
-rcoplo Seldom improve when they
have no other model but themsekc, to
copy after Goliaob
No map deserve, 10 he praised for
his goodness unless he has strength OF
character to bcwiekod
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-10-31

The poores, education that teocbe
salf-contrul /, better than the best tha
neglect IL
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20

more interested; first, because they
were novel and secondly, because
they were instructive and being
a woman and favorite, her presence and
speech were things that lifted trouble,
rather than increased it. They therefore
declined to listen to the Lost Cause, ;"
which merely revived the sadness of the
past, and accepted the cheerful little
woman who told them about their wives
and sweethearts, which is always pleas
ant theme to all sorts of people.
Nashville is evidently in favor of for
getting what is unpleasant and of knowing
what is fraught with hope for the future.
She wants to let the wounded past heal
itself, and she desires to hear something
that is good for the present and for the
great hereafter. We sympathise with her
i'll this desire, and it is our sincere hope
that the melancholy Of the appeal will
wear off in the realization of the better
things that Miss Logan predicts. The
discussion of the "Lost Cause" had better
be adjourned until the country has recov-
cred from the injuries which came upon it
through the agency of that stupendous evil.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20
A SLANDERER.

1t is very rarely that a public journal,
which has sustained any pretentions to
responsibility, chooses of its own accord to
abandon its reputation for the name Of q
common and deliberate slanderer Under
the old regime this would have been impos-
sible with the P;cqyune. It is matter Of
regret that it has now become the chief
distinction of this paper.
Political opposition is admissible in all
communities. Even personal friendship
can be preserved in the antagonism it en-
genders; for honorable men recognize the
civilities and prophecies OF lite even in the
midst Of hostile political opinion. Only
the depraved intellect, the vicious heart.
and low, imbruted instinct would bring the
slanderers revolving aid to diminish the
popularity of an opponent Society abhors
that secret and invisible assassin, which.
under the non-identity Of news
paper writer, exhales his SANDERS
upon the community. More revolving than
the crawling reptile, which gives warning
ere ne stings, this social viper turks in the
dark, and stabs with hand unseen. The
depravity of such a nature is only ex-
ceeded by the infinite meanness of jour
nal which gives publicity to the colnings
of such a miserable and evil imagination.
The one invents the huge, stupendous
falsehood, and the paper indorses it, and
makes it its own. This is illustrated by
the publication in the Picoytne in Sun
days issue, of the subjoined paragraph:
The colored people of this city and State,
as we are creGibly informed by cOlored men
Of this city, believe that Lieutenant Cover
nor Dunn was poisoned. This was openly
charged by the members of his household
on the evening Of his death. Nopost mortem
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20
BOGUS REFORMERS,

Here we are again" says the Times, to
admit our blunders and apologize to the
people for our stupidity. After a weeks
heavy clustering, and threatening the
Legislature with humiliation if it did not
pass instanter the bills proposed by the
fifty-one '.jacks of all trades" our contem-
porary arouses itself to the fact that the
bills have not yet been presented. 1t de-
clares that this is strange" and wonders
'where they are" and even that 'Messrs.
Moncure and Thompson decidedly the most
intelligent and respectable members of the
House, have never been consulted in regard
to these bills"
Now, while this compliment is rough on
the other 'intelligent and respectable
members" we respectfully submit that if
these ffty-one humbugs did moo have
little game of their own in hand, is it
likely they would have been SO jealous of
the honors possibly to be derived as not to
even consult two such prominent reform
leaders as Messrs. Moncure and Thomp-
son? Fie, for shame, Fifty-oners Do
you think to seize the State government
with the obnoxious" laws yet in force,
and through them forever continue your
selves in power? Beware, or, in the
language Of the Times, you, too, will be de-
nounced as false guides"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20
a FAILURE AND A FRAUD.

As representative colored man, J.
Henri Burch is the biggest failure we
know Of Elected by the most outrageous
election fraud ever perpetrated upon the
people of this State, manipulated by his
co-reform patriot, ex-Revenue Collector
Chapman, he seized the first opportunity
to betray his party and people by desert
ing to the Democracy, in the vain hope
of overturning Republicanism, and gaining
personal advantage by treachery which
his merits could not secure. The De-
mocracy supposed him strong because Of
his color and wordiness and fattered him
to belief that they would except him
from their general ostracism Of his race.
But the Democracy made one serious mis-
calculation, Burch is not Of the colored
people who gained their liberties after the
pains and penalties of a life of slavery.
He can not appreciate, as do the freedmen,
the blessings Republican rule has con-
ferred, and therefore lacks that III
centive to love of and faithfulness
to our party which his less for
tunate brethren possess. He is
a carpet-bagSer, sui generis. Only after
the conflict wherein so many colored men
surrendered their lives, did J. Henri
Burch come among US from his Northern
home to claim a lions share in the fruits
of victory And it is possible, had his
selfish ambition not soon exposed his true
character, that he might have been highly
honored in the land of his adoption. But
he has played desperate game, and lost.
The Democrats used him and have cast
him aside, and even the peoples party
will not require second experience OF a
representative colored man" who could
not congregate a bakers dozen of his race
at a grand assemblage where every pos
sible inducement to attract their attend
ance was employed.
And this, let US hope, not only closes
the public career in Louisiana of this rec
reant to race and principle, but that his
ignominious failure will serve as a warming
to every Republican that only in the Re
publican party can he safely put his trust,
no matter how glttering the bait held out
by the enemy, or under what g1lise lie
offers it.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20
A CASE OF DIVIDED sYMPATHIES.

Our friends Of the Memphis appeal are
not happy, which grieves US on their
special account, as We desire to see all our
friends gay and blithesome rather than
morose and discontinued. While we SYM
pathize with the individual, however, and
would even pour oil and rub ointment
upon his wounded feelings, as a personal
comfort, We can not repress q feeling Of
sympathy for the cause that produced the
| unhappiness. This is clearly a case Of
divided sympathy, therefore, where the
same sensibility that weeps over the
stricken journalist, offers its tears in
common bowl to the object that wounded
him. The apparent Inconsistency car not
be avoided, however, for while the editor
draws upon our sympathy by virtue of Lis
calling, the cause that smote him so soreIy
compels our respect and admiration by
| virtue of its worth and merit.
The appeal complains that it is unhap-
py because that, when Miss Olive Logan
lectured in Nashville upon the DUTY and
Progress of Women she had full house,
while the audience that attended to hear
Lieutenant Blaine lecture upon the Lost
Cause was so small that the orator had
no heart to speak, and declined to fulfill
his engagement. The appeal thinks the
country is ungrateful that it thus refuses to
patronize a rehearsal of its Lost Cause"
while it pays handsome profit to the
speaker who tells its women what they
should do and how they have advanced.
1t is easy to perceive the reason of our
divided sympathy in this case. We can
not well refuse to condole with a brother
editor even in his folly, for it may be cur
misfortune sometime to need a return of
this sort Of sentimental support from the
appeal, which gratitude will compel it to
bestow. Neither can we refuse to admire
the judgment that prompted the people OF
Nashville to decline attendance upon q
funeral discourse that only proposed to
make them feel dismal and unhappy over
troubles that had better be forgotten, for
the present, at least. Mr. Blaine offered
to tell them of their misfortunes. which is
not a pleasant thing, either to those that
rehearse such memories Or to those that
listen to the doleful tale. Miss Logan of
fered to cheer them with new thoughts and
happy suggestions-to tell them Of matters
present and to come, wherein they were
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20
WHAT IT TURNED OUT TO BE.

The proceedings Of tie meeting at the
City Hall last Saturday night pretty clear
ly show that it was q movement in the
name Of the old Democracy: that the term
''reformers' is but synonym for the
''outs;;' and that the main object Of the
actors on that amphitheatre is to effect a
change in Office holders. This interpreta-
ton is so obvious to the people generally
that but little interest is manifested in the
movement. There was not Republican
Of any note or standing who took part in
the meeting. Out Of some two hundred
vice presidents, we notice the names of
but three colored men, and their sympathy
with the objects of the meeting is nat
urally very faint and luEewarm. All the
orators belonged to the same class as the
officers. None of them said anything
worth remembering. The report of the COM
mittee of Fifty-one, although prepared by
men of unquestioned ability, is but lame
and spiritless affair, and reads more like a
special plea than an honest and earnest
recital of actual grievances. But such as
the meeting proved itself to be, We accept
it as perfectly proper contrivance. Had
not the managers of the show at first
christened it a mass meeting, and subse-
quently intimated that Republicans would
be considered guilty of etlrontery and i'm
prudence if they attended, thus ruling out
half of the people and three-ffths Of the
voters, We should have had nothing to say
in the way of criticism. As it turned out,
however, nobody was taken by surprise.
1t was more than suspected Of being a
trick to manufacture public opinion, and
when We ruthlessly tore off the mask and
exposed its real character, the general
comment among Republicans was -
thought So" The true character of the
meeting was, however, fully determined
before it took place, and 50 the people
generally staid away.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20
a VERY PROPER LECTURE.

Our contemporary, the Times, very
pertinently suggests that the Committee
of Fittv-one would have shown more wis
dom in closing up one enterprise before
engaging in another. They were delegated
by mass meeting to investigate alleged
misconduct of the city officials, and after
two months nosing and ferreting about
the City Hall, with every aid and advantage
POSSIBLE given them by the accused. they
not only fail utterly to substantive the
charges, but their utter lack of expressed
opinion is, under the circumstances, a
strong Endorsement, OF the government they
We're organized to convict. This, of itself,
is bad enough from a reform stand
point; but when, III addition, they exceed
their mission and enter upon the wide field
Of State politics, even 10 the extent Of
usurping the organization Of a new party,
the conviction forces itself upon the people
that they have dropped their character of
respectable citizens, anxious only for the
credit Of the city, and become scheming
politicians III search Of an easy path to
place and its emo,uments.
1t is not to be wondered at, therefore,
that the 7inles should warningly and
menacingly Cry out: Let them counsel
well, or they, too, will he abandoned as
false guides Manyof these "Fifty-one"
are ex-public ottice-holders, or ever-ready
candidates, and it is not probable that
their once-aroused ambitions are wholly
quenched. Men whose names can not be
found on the registration lists, who thus
shirk the ballot, jury duty, and the other
important burdens Of citizenship, and
who arouse to activity only when the con-
troll Of a party seems within their grasp,
will bear watching. The Times caution
and warning is well spoken.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20
SHOW YOUR HANDS.

Prominent Democrats declare that men,
bers of their party who acted as vice
presidents of the Saturday night meeting,
or who permit their names to be used
in support Of the so-called peoples
party" must be considered boilers, and
henceforth debarred as fit and proper per-
sons to be considered in connection with
any Office by Democratic convention.
The same policy should be adopted by
the Republicans, and the men who take
every new chance for preferment- can
lay aside or change their principles when
ever personal interest may be subserved-
will be taught wholesome lesson. We
should like to hear from Senator Ingra-
ham in this connection. He voted for the
Campbell amendment to the registration
bill, vet We find him associated as vice
president with the men who make this
their especial object of denunciation. Con-
sistency is jewel, and this time and
an occasion for its full display
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20

should employ his talents to elevate those
with whom alone he has heretofore been
estimated by. his manly and Intellectual
qualities?
Thr Picayune is a sham, and it's stupid,
demagogue appeals will deceive not even
the most stolid negro in the land. Mr..
Pinchback has made record unsurpassed
studded with acts, not with promises; and
it is poor estimate to put upon the col
ored people that they will turn aside from
a tried friend at the beck Of sudden and
too Jealous convert.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20

examination was held. Attending physicians
may give opinions, but it i. now impossible
10 prove that he was or was not poisoned.
1t is to be regretted that this post mortem
examination was not held. 1t leaves the
public mind open to lurking suspicious as
to who poisoned him, and for what purpose
1t was done.
The colored people of this city entertain
no such opinion, and have expressed no
such belief 1t had its origin with politi-
cal opponents, and it's present revival for
publication was coined in the office OF
the Pioayune, and inserted in that journal
with the same malignant disregard of truth
that has characterized its opposition to the
Governor since the new proprietols took
possession. 1t is true that the Governors
vindication from this assault might be
safely left to the certificates Of respectable
physicians were not the SANDER but one
of many others which that journal is in
dustriously engaged in circulating. Among
these are the statements that he is in
terested in the State House bill, the Ser
geant Wynne SANDER, and numerous
others, which only the fertile imagination
of writer on the Picayalne could invent.
Such political opposition as this may be
legitimate and recognized antagonism
among the shop-keeping community and
country crossroads politicians from whom
the Picayune now derives its chief inspira-
ton; but we can assure them that with
gentlemen the deliberate falsifier, the
slanderer, aud the public defamer, are
held in abomination, and entitled to no
more respect than the common assassin.
Not so much, perhaps, inasmuch as the
assassin risks his life in taking that Of his
enemy, but the Picayne risks only the
good opinion Of all honorable persons
while spreading abroad its huge, unblush-
ing detractions and malignant defanations.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20
TIE LAST RESOURCE,

i most insidious appeal to the colored
men is that in the Ptcopnle on the success
sion Of Lieutenant Governor Dr. m. Adj
hitting the ability Of Lieutenant Governor
Pinchback, it denies his right to assume
the leadership Of the colored people of
Louisiana because Of his mixed blood.
None but a black man should lead the
blacks, is the PicGya,as's cry. with which
it hopes to stir up dissension and strife
that can only result in injury to Repub-
icanism and the consequent adyanyance-
ment Of its own hybrid party.
But does it hope to deceive sensible col
ored men by the suggestion that any one
with single drop Of African blood in his
veins differs in the estimation Of its two
hundred and fifty shopkeeping stockhold-
ers, from one who is wholly an 4 unadulter-
ated African? viii itpoint out wherein lies
the difference in their treatment by the
dominant race-where the graduated scale
of blood and social rights OF privileges is to
be found? By the logic of the Picay,me's
argument, it is lIr. Pinchbacks misfortune
that he was begotten by white man; but
is this misforture-tllis white mans
crime-to thrust him outside the pale of
human sympathy? If his parentage has
given him keener sense Of the wrongs he
sufers-an intellect that more clearly
grasps and combats the prejudices of the
white race, against that to which he has
been inexorably exiled for sympathy and
it not meet and just that be
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20

We had the pleasure of an introduction
last evening to Mr. Frank Al. Leatherman,
editor of the Louisiana Farmer, published
at Arcadia, Bienville parish. Mr.. Leather
man is a native Of Claiborne parish,
printer by profession and good fellow by
practice. As the Former will shortly be
located at Trenton, Ouachta parish, we
hope the merchants of New Orleans will
extend to it liberal advertising patron
ace Mr.. Leatherman was escorted to our
editorial rooms by Hon. w. J. Blackburn,
of the Homer Iii0d.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20

Mr.. Todd, gentleman prominently
oorrected with the Louisiana Paper Manu-
featuring Company, in some remarks at the
mill Yesterday, where representatives Oh
tho nress and invited guests were present,
had the bad taste to say that II we had
better rule in this State manufacturing en-
,erprises would increase and manufacturers
would be more prosperous. lll-natureo
people might retort that If there was more
confidence in the management of the Lou
isiana Paper Company, the stock would he
more readily taken up. One OF the TWO
hundred and fifty editors OF the P'cay''''e
was present, but did not have the nerve 70
rebuke this :lI-timed remark OF Mr.. 1ooo'
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20

The Morning Star, which is welded to
infallibilty, declares that the taxes at
present are eight times higher than they
were before the war, and that the State
debt, which was two millions before, has
been run up to forty-two millions since the
war. AS this is tallible statement, it is
clear that the organ of infallibility does
not sustain its role. Let it be deposed.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20

We perceive that Mr.. E. w. Holsey, the
editor in chief under the late regime of the
.Picayune, Mr.. j. +. Condor, political and
literary writer, and Mr.. George w. Lloyd,
news editor, have dissolved their connection
with that journal. For many years these
gentlemen have been the able and coniden-
tial coadjutors of Mr.. Holbrook, in the con-
duct of the Picayune, and are known to the
community as high-minded, honorable gen
tiemen and accomplished writers.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20

The Times says that the eeting of Sat-
urday night sought to draw out express
sions from all sorts of people. There arc
several people that we know of who are
very easy to be drawn out on such occa-
sions, who were anxious to be drawn out
on this particular occasion, who asked the
occasion to draw them out, but who were
not drawn out 4ther by the occasion or
by anything else. Is the tribune to be
muzZled?
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20

A pretty style of arranging the hair is
the couture la roD,aine-short trizes are
placed over the forehead; above these is
single but heavy braid Of three strands;
long curls fall at the back. A tea-rose, or
other flower to match the toilette, is placed
upon one side of the braid in front.