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The Straight. outs.

We may well be gratilied with the result of
the Convention of the Straight-outs in Louis
vile, as an evidence of the weakness of our
old hereditary enemy. AS far as practical
results are concerned, it has been failure,
and was fOreordained to be, owing to the de-
sertion of almost all the chief politicians who
on such occasions act as managers and Or
tom of the total generalization of the once
powerful party that for many years had full
control of the Government, and as a protest
of the true Bourbons, the men who neither
learn nor forget anything, against the partial
surrender concluded by their more compro-
missing and time-serving brethren now doing
service in the Greeley camp. A sufficient
number of delegates were prcsent-nO doubt
the true representatives of the spirit and sem
timents of large part of the Democracy
but the absence of prominent leaders seems
to have been a serious drawback, aside from
the chief disadvantage under Which the whole
assemblage labored from the outset, namely:
the impossibility of achieving any greater
success than the barren one of demonstra-
ton proving that the old Democratic party is
not quite dead yet.
From present appearances it is not proba-
BILE that this movement will materially affect
the prospect of either of the two candidates
now in the field. Nevertheless, the Greeley
ties, conscious of their weakness are shaking
with fear, lest it may spread and deal the
last blow to their sinking fortunes, and to
ward it off they are working hard to convince
the public that the whole convention has
been bogus affair, prompted, managed, and
paid for by Republican managers. This
fabrication might be called ingenious, in Sc
far as it is intended to kill two flies at one
blow, if the marks of its origin were not sc
grossly palpable. This movement, though
the convention was a failure, nevertheless
assumed dimensions utterly beyond those OF
a mere ''side show' even, if the names OF
many of the men prominent in it, whom the
Greeley organs by their assertions brand as
mercenary impostOrs, were not sufficient
guarantees for its commences and above all
| il bears all the distinctive and characteristic
features of the Democratic party--thc blows
exchanged between Messrs. Duncan ani
Custer among the Resin such q degree as
to exclude the shadow of a doubt about tho
| Legitimacy of its origin.
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Greeley's own illusions may be, it is evident
that many of his chief supporters and his
private organ begin to realize the situation,
for the latter has been for many weeks in
chronic state ofrage, as only utter desperation
can produce. 1t raves, RACES, and swears
at everybody and everything connected with
Republicanism. 1t cannot even control its
fury over Nast's caricatures in Ha,per's
Weekly, though it cannot fail to know how
gratifying the displays of its temper must be
to the artist and publishers, as evidence that
they have hit on the right point. Many Re-
publicans will hardly know that Mr.. Matt.
Morgan, Of Frank Leslie's, is Justify ham,
merng at the Republicans, and at the Presi-
dent in particular, though with inferior wit
and skill, at least with quite as much zeal;
for no Republican paper has yet deemed
them worth its anger. Yet even those out
bursts Of impotent rage on the part of Mr..
Greeley's private organ--disgusting as they
are-appear harmless compared to the
shameless, malignant ISLANDERS and lies
whose manufacture have become the chief
occupation of a paper formerly noted for its
dignified and decOrOus tone. The same is
true of all other Greeley organs, and it is the
necessary consequence of the desperate posi-
ton to which they are driven. Since they
cannot bring forth any well-founded charges
of consequence against the Republicans and
the President, they have no choice left but
to manufacture them and call names, and
since they cannot whitewash Mr.. Greeley
and his chief supporters from very grave
charges, they have neither any other choice
left but to lie, muddle the water, and call
names. Their cause is one of those that
will soil the hands of any one who under
takes its advocacy.
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are sincerely DESTROYS of reconciliation and
are honest in their promises to abide by the
results oe the last twelve years of Republic
can rule. Although by this time it is pretty
generally understood by the people that the
noisily trumpeted out reconciliation is the
mere fusion of two gangs of hungry office
seekers and ambitions or greedy poll
ticians, entered upon for the sake of the
spoils, since neither Of them would have the
shadow of a chance if acting by themselves
alone, and although even average common
sense has come to the conclusion that
Liberal Democratic victory would soon be
followed by great falling out, unless the
weaker party, the Liberal-if the small
number of individuals who assumed that name
when they left the Republican ranks can
properly be called party-consent to sub
NIT to the will of their older and stronger
brothers of the Democracy, and to abide by
their dictates; such displays of Southern
hatred, ferocity, and brutality will go far to
remove the last atom Of an illusion from the
minds of the most credulous. So deep-seated,
viloent, and insurmountable is the hatred of
the true Southern Democrat against Republi-
can rule and negro equality that not even his
own interest, not even the knowledge that by
every violent manifestation of his fiendish dis
position he inflicts a stab ON his cause, can
keep him from murderous outrage, and induce
him to conceal his ugly temper at least until
after the election. Messrs. Liberals, who
abuse us, accuse us of keeping up old party
animosity, and over and over again ask us
why we refuse to believe in their honesty
and that of their Democratic allies and their
fraternal love, are you answered? In North
Carolina Vermont and, Maine the Republi-
cans have spoken; these murders are the
voice of the Arkansas Democracy.
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Cheap Postage.

If twelve ounces of silk thread or patent
medicine can be carried by the Government
to San Francisco for twelve cents, why
should twelve ounces of letters or other man
uscript be charged seventy-two cents? Ger
tainly it costs no more to convey the mer-
chandise than it does the correspondence.
Let the people then have cheap postage be-
fore it is attempted to give them cheap ex-
pressage. Let them be able to send their
letters from one end of the country to the
other for one cent, and then the Government
will be working in the right direction. The
same may be said as to the postal telegraph.
That is a public demand which Congress can
and ought to supply, and not leave the BUSH
ness to the extOrtionate charges of an over
grown and fast-consolidating monopoly.
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The Testimony Of an EX-FIaJsicn
Minister.

One of the points made, or pretended to be
made, by Senator Sumner, is that President
Grant, during the San Domingo negotiations,
insulted the black Republic of IIayti, and,
through Hayti, insulted the negro race, If
this were true, certainly the Haytiens ought
to know, and the Haytien Minister, i'll parti-
cular, ought to both know and resent 1t.
But. unfortunately for Mr.. Sumner, he is not
sustained in this by the Haytien Minister, as
he is contradicted in his other reckless asser-
tons by Fred. Douglass, Garrison Smith,
and the leading friends of the colored race.
Gen. Tate, who was the Minister TO the
United States from Hayti, under President
Salnave, in 1870, but who now resides in Liv-
erpool, England, during his residence at
Washington, won for himself marked distinc-
ton as a gentleman of ability and high charac-
ter. Of course the present Haytien Minister
is forbidden by diplomatic etiquette from
speaking about United States politics; but
Gen. Tate, being now out of office, is
privileged to speak; and he has recently
written a letter on political affairs in the
United States, under date of July 2G, in
which he pointedly and pertinently says:
"But of all the projected or contemplated
changes, none impresses me more than that
which the Republican party in the States has
realized. Could ever believe that the bland
est and most self-conscrvative Republican
would ever find in all his programme on politi-
cal and moral creed anything weak enough,
so that it could amalgamate with the mud
and dirt of the Democratic party: Yes this
is now the case. Without abjuring their
principles, the bitterest organs of the DEM
ocratic party are now the principal propaga-
tors of the sO-called Conservative Republican
party. The slave drivers and the secession
lists are now going to uphold the standard of
the once so glorious Republican party. What
does it mean? Have you come in the United
States to period of reaction: If so, who
else could be more vigorous to stand by and
defend all the political achievements so
gloriously realized than the present Presi-
dent? Has Gen. Grant so completely lost
all claim upon his tellOw-citiZcns' confidence
and affection that, in contest where his
most numerous opponents were so recently
the greatest enemies of the nation. he should
stand the risk to lose the game? | hope not,
and hope not because l firmly believe that
it requires still the stern and fine dctermina-
ton of an obstinate and well convinced mind
at the head of the Executive to establish
thoroughly in the Union. especially in the
South, the great political and social changes
that have been introduced in your Constitu-
tion."
Gen. Tate, looking at our politics as deeply
| affecting the interests of the colOred race,
| thus pronounces against Greeley, and in
| favor of Grant, the same as every other in
telligent colOred man, native or foreign, does ;
and the same as every conspicuous friend OF
| the colored race, except Mr.. Sumner, docs.
l-Detroit Post.
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gaSr Mr.. Johh II. Smyth, of this city, is in
the State of Virginia doing good service III
the canvass for Grant and Wilson. y Rich
mond paper thus speaks Of his address at
meeting in that city on the 9Th inst:
Mr.. John II. Smyth, (colored,) of Wash
ington city, then took the stand and said that
he had taken the advice of IIoratio to Ham
let, and committed his thoughts to paper,
from which he read lengthy Grafton written
strongly in the interest of Mr.. j. Amber
Smith. The speaker is a well educated man,
having graduated at the Howard University
in Washington, and showed his appreciation
of and familiarity with the Bard Of Avon,
from whose writings he made coplous and
appropriate extracts. His address was Tar
above the comprehension of the majority OF
his hearers. One of the new ideas advanced
was that the Government should pay the
negroes for past labor, as the country had
been built up through their in.trlmsntaiity.
His speech was characterized by fairness
and intelligence seldom manifested i'll this
bitter campaign. TWAS entirely free from that
yituperative invective usual from the Radical
stump, and reelected great credit on the III
telligencc and education of the speaker. lie
paid high tribute to Sumner, and called on
the negroes not to condemn him too severely
nor forget his past services. He (the speakcr)
was the author of the letter to Senator SUM
ner asking his advice to the colorcd race
which produced that famous reply. Don't
condemn him too harshly, but don't rofe with
him now. He urged his audience to stand
up for their inalienable rights in the full con-
science of justice and right to all men.
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Absurd Advice.

Those of our Liberal friends, who profess
particular concern for the welfare of the ne
gro, and volunteer to advise him how to vote,
unwittingly betray their low estimate of his
intelligence by the very arguments they use
to persuade him to go over to Greeley.
Over and again we arc reminded that Mr..
Greeley has been lifelong (?) Abolitionist,
(?) and therefore has lust claim to our
votes; while on the other side Gen. Grants
Democratic tendencies, painted in the dark
est cOlors, and finished up by the choicest
lies of the Tribune, are held up as scare
crow. Now, is that not presuming little
too much on the stupidity of the colored
people? A man not committed to any party
may entertain friendly feelings towards some
particular one, but in this instance it is
claimed that a man, after having formally
dissolved his connection with party, and
joined one of opposite tendencies, is, never
theless, to be trusted as the fittest advocate
of the faith he has just renowned, as the
most faithful friend and protector of those
whom he has deserted! As if the very fact
of his desertion were not conclusive evidence
of the contrary, and as if it were not estab-
lished by experience that new converts to
any creed or party are usually far more intol-
Grant and bigoted than those born Or brought
up in it! Some of the best men ON our side,
of the most active Republicans, were once
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Grant and Butler,
Messrs. Stanton and Hamlin among the
cumberland the Democrats have hated
them only the worse for what they call
treason and apostacy. This feeling prevails
in the whole world; the negro alone is deemed
idiotic enough-probably on the strength of
some chronological reason-to be entrapped
by an absurdity too gross and transparent to
be swallowed by the most uncivilized Indian.
" Previous good behavior is all that can be
urged in Mr.. Greeley's favor-a plea fire.
quently resorted to in criminal cases, and
though sometimes considered of sufficient
weight to modify the penalty from State
prison to pemtentiary, it has never before
been thought Of as title to the highest Office
that the confidence and trust of people
can bestOw on a fellOw-citizen.
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, The problem of telegraphing in the Chi
nese language, to write which requires some
so 900 different characters, has been solved
in this way: y few thousands of the char
acters most used are cut upon wooden blocks.
On the opposite side of each blocks its num-
Der. Duplicates of such numbered blocks
are at each telegraph station. The China
merchant selects the blocks which express
the thoughts to be transmitted. The opera
tor telegraphs only the numerals designating
these blocks, which enable the receiving
operator to select similar blocks at his end oil
the line.
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The following is from the Golden Az a
year ago:
"NO public man has done or has mdone
so much good to his country as Mr.. Gree
ley"
Query: Is a man who is capable of doing
much good and also in the habit of undoing
it, just the man for President of the United
States. Mr.. Tilton, is not this charge of
yours an accusation of instability on the part
of your candidate for the Presidency?
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Voice from Arkansas.

The cold-bloOded murder Of Republican
county clerk and justice of the l'eace by a
Democratic mob in Arkansas, is fair illus
tration of the affectionate feelings Of love
with which our Southern brethren stretch
out their hands over the bloody chasm, and
answers at once the elaborate and hypocriti-
cal arguments of the Liberals, by which we
are to be deceived into the belieftnat the Dem
ocrats do not bear us any i'll will, that they
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Horace Describes Ills Friends.

Mr.. Greeley, before he became the Tam
many candidate, wrote as follows of some of
those whose aid he seeks. He said: "Now
Virginia planter, with straw hat upon his
head and cat-o'nine tails in his hand and
linen coat upon his back, with his mouth full
Of blasphemy and tobacco, with one wife at
home in the great house and a score or two
of concubines in the little huts, if he did de-
scend from ancestors without shame and with
out reproach, has made indeed descent most
decided and most fearful"
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OF MASSACHUSETTS

Complete liberty and exact equality in the
rights should be established and effectually
maintained throughout the Union by efficient
and appropriate State and Federal legislation.
Neither the law nor its administration should
admit of any discrimination in respect of citi-
zens, by reason of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude.-4 Plank IN the Plat
form of the PHILADELPHIA Contention.
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hJ The resolutions adopted by the New
England Convention of Colored Men are to
the point, and should be read by ALL They
will be found in another column.
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cas' Hon. John NJ. Langston, of Howard
University, is doing much work in the in-
terest ofthe Republican party. He is listened
to with marked interest at all times.
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-Pere Hyacinthe's marriage is said to
have wonderfully increased the foreign de-
mand for American widows.
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the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, the leading
Greeley organ Of the South, gives expression
to Southern sentiment in an article headed,
"Greeley to secure for the South the re-
moval of negro suffrage" In this article the
Enquirer characterizes negro suffrage as "the
sum of all the woes and misfortunes Of the
South-the incurable cancer which is eating
out its young life, and for which there is no
remedy, which cannot even be cut out" 1t
then proceeds in this bold strain:
GLOW are we to get rid of this noxious
plant-who is to lay the AK to the root? Our
answer is, Mr.. Greeley. He understands the
disease thoroughly, and we must look to him
and to Mr.. Sumner to cure us. They ought
| to do it, and will, no doubt, when placed in
power. They are wise men-or at least have
| a reputation for wisdom-and must see that
where two races dwell together in the same
community, one of which is acknowledged to
| be inferior, society cannot be in healthy
condition so long as the inferior rules and
dominates over the superior.
"They must see that the evils of universal
suffrage are radical, and that there can be
no peace save by a removal of the cause OF
war. The ballots in the hands of low,
ignorant negro, who is ordered to use it by
a brutal, self-seeking, thieving white man, is
worse than the musket in the hands of a
soldier under the orders of besotted and
cruel tyrant. This is no fancy. 1t is a fact !;
true, pure, and naked. And now let us ask
if there is any reason to hope for the slightest
amelioration of this condition of things?
evil the election of Mr. Greeley inaugu-
rate measures for our rescue? We answer
that there is a CLEAN of hope, and that his
election will give us the means of escape
from portion of our ills. We can at least
through him secure the control of the Fed
eral offices and of the army and navy, and
these can all be used for the restoration OF
the white race to power in the South-even
in Carolina and Louisiana. The superiority
of the intelligence, wealth, and blood OF the
white race will make itself felt, and, despite
of numbers, the people will recover some pOr-
ton of their liberties and prerogatives"
Do our readers require any stronger proof
of what the Democratic party intend if again
entrusted with the Government, and that
they will then find the means to accomplish
their purposes ?" If they do Greeley's adj
ministration will furnish it, if Greeley evel
is permitted to occupy the Presidential
chair.
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will, there's q way And the great
questions to be decided is what that way is,
and what its chances of success.
In coming to a conclusion upon this point,
it is not necessary to deny that they may
accomplish their plans without violating the
letter of the Constitution. They, as far as
possible, shun any open violation of the
Constitution. and seek to reach the ends
they have in view without unnecessarily
arousing public apprehension, especially as
safer way seems to be open to them. And
that way we find very clearly pointed out in
a legal article published in one OF our cotem-
poraries.
1t is known not only that nearly every
slave state previous to 1860 was governed in
part by II ,iatutory law, requiring that free
persons If roio, connected Of larceny be sold
as slaves, but that similar laws with the adj
dition that all ,ugrants, that is, cotored people
ont of emploqa,,a should also be sold into serui.
t'tte for term Of years. The Supreme Court
of Virginia decided that the law to which we
just refer as existing previous to 1860 is con.
stitutional, aud that negroes hare no rights I'M
ID, the Cm.aHution-2 Va. Cas- All. We
quote from The article to which we refer. II
is from the Pontiac (Mich.) Gazette. But we
are compelled only to give its main points
1t is:
| The NiIith amendment provides
"Netlier slavery nor involuntary servitude
except as punishment for crime &C., shall
exist within the United States"
The XVIII amendment provides that, if the
| right to vote is denied to any of the male in
Minnesota Staats-Zeitung. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1877, 1872-03-28

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le9enbeiten billet 9eAenwdrtis bic iope<
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