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DehiocratS VINO controlled Charleston from
1871 to 1873 left the city last fall in pretty
bad financial condition. Do not misunder.
stand me. The Bourbons were all right. 1t
was "the city by the sea" that was all
wrong" 1 can only stop, however, to cite
one instance of Democratic extravaganza.
The expenditures of last year by the Bour-
bon city government exceeded the enormous
sum Of one million dollars 2! The Republican
State government, with all its officers, courts
Of Justice, its thousands of schools, its penal
and charitable institutions only exceeded that
amount by about two hundred thousand dol
lars. No comment necessary.
There seems to be a genuine spirit of re-
form among us. "a tidal wave" has been
set in motion which will sweep our State
from the seaboard to the mountains. Not
long since defaulting county treasurer was
tried, convicted, and sentenced to pay fine
OF two thousand dollars, and to take up his
abode with the erring in the penitentiary for
twelve months. Those who have been tam
pering with our finances will soon be made
to feel that our 'halls of justice are indeed
and in truth temples of the living God"
Our treasurer has just taken step which,
IN the present condition of things, is to the
State what the Presidents late veto is to the
country. Certain Democratic creditors, who
are consulting their pockets rather than the
interests of the State, demand the treasurer
to issue some three hundred thousand dollars
OF certificates of indebtedncss-in other
words, they want to initiate our State money.
This Mr.. Cardozo has wisely refused to do,
although the creditors flourish in his face
legislative act touching the case. They have
applied to our Supreme Court for a manlamus
to compel the Treasurer "to initiate the cur
rency Of the State" l cannot now enter
intoa discussion ofths question, for my letter
has already grown too lengthy. 1t is sufli-
cient here to say that the Treasurer's side of
the question will be ably and eloquently ar
gucd by the Attorney General, Elliott, and
Chamberlain.
The Treasurer's position, if sustained by
the Cortland we believe it will be-must
rebound to his credit and to the good of the
State. The Attorney General, in cores
ponding with him OH the subject, says, 81
shall take occasion most earnestly to COM
mend your action in declining to perform this
office as an earnest of your purpose in COM
mon with myself and others to leave no effort
untried to stem the tide of extravaganza
and corruption which now threatens to en-
gulf the Republican party and bring the
State to irretrievable ruin" To show that
there is vitality in the old Palmetto State
her roots need to be watered. Certain
birds OF prey must be driven from her
branches. Then will she spread forth her.
sell in more than her original glory, Then
will she overshadow alike the proud sciOns
OF the Pinckncys and the humble descendants
of their slaves.
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From Mississippi.

HURRICANE, Miss, April %, 1874.
To he Editor ofMe Ne,o National Era:
DEAR SIR This is one of the States, l
believe, in which we can boast of having
passed civil rights bill, and here we ought
to revel in that pure freedom which is not
prescribed by mean prejudice, but we do not
The banner of which we boast is only an
empty name floating so high that we cannot
rest in its shade nor gaze upon its beauty.
All of the hotels are strictly private, the same
little prescribed bureau has its place on the
steamboats,, and colored passengers wishing
to purchase at the bar, or procure tickets
must come around on the outside"
Think of it; the Lieutenant Governor OF
Mississippi, cannot obtain accommodations
at first class hotel in the State, neither can
he enter the palatial cabin of steamer. 1t
is not because he is miscreant, but because
an unwarantable prejudice overrules justice
and common humanity.
Looking at paper which lay on the table
yesterday, l saw in larger letters, this SEN
teIce; TIE NEGROES WILL NOT WORK. If
the negro does not work, who does? Every
plantation in the State that is cultivated at
all, is titled by negro hands, every boat and
every car is sustained by negro labor, and
the chief articles of commerce, are the prod
ucts OF negro labor. That incessant growl,
the negro mW not po,h, proceeds from class
that does not work and is dependent upon
negro labor. Tradition has taught them to
look upon the negro in no other light, than as
hcwers of wood and drawers of water. Il
the negro chooses his own time to work and
wont be driven, he is 6" idle and shiftless''
Might has long governed Right, but Justice
is bowed only to conquer. 1t is to be re.
membered that the actions of the public will
! L. A-~ ~.'i \; 90 t'ioul,h; at Il future period
when interest is stiied and passion is mute
when fear has ceased to asitate and discort
is at rest, but conscience has resumed its
sway in the human heart. Nothing but what
is just can be expedient, because nothing
of mankind.
Let the cOlOred man roam wherever he
will, beyond the boundary of progressive
America, his home, and he is treated as a
man and brother. Let him then, turn to.
ward home, with his heart swelling in honest
pride, his manly step quickened by the love he
bears his country, his soul stirred with the
enthusiasm of republican principles, he rush
es upon the threshold, but no embrace awaits
him, the door is closed, and the inmates scot
at him. For what: not that he is worthless
but because his noble heart beats in bosom
which the great and Almighty God has GOV.
cred with a tawny skin. Spurned and de.
jected, the hot blood rushes to his temples,
but his large heart let's him turn not with
indignation upon his loved home, he essays
to speak; "Can it be that the broad wave
ofhumanity does not swell in the bosom of
my home, my country: Can it be that the
grim despots, ignorance and prejudice rule
there and sweep away even the small ripples
of Christianity: o Shame! has thou no
foothold upon enlightened America?
Yours &c.
"A, c, BARTLETT
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close place on question of veracily. For
this am sorry. 1t reminds me of an old
maxim. 1t is this g lie who asserteth that
the truth whereofh he doth not know, differeth
not essentially in the turpitude of his act
from him who asserteth that the falsehood
whereof he well knoweth."
The many millions who love to honor the
names of their heroes are ready to unite
with all the good people everywhere in a
systematized and well-organized effort to
erect monument to the memory Of one
who was the greatest man of earth-the
immortal Charles Sumner.
Hoping that none of the young Americans
who advanced so bravely to the 'front.'"
nor the old ones who were so ANONYMOUSLY
forced to the rear, will again so disturb the
sanctum of the NEW NATIONAL ERA, as to
prevent its talented editors and managers
from receiving the many hundreds of thous-
ands of paid-up subscriptions that the ERA
so justly deserves, and for which please
credit me with $3.50.
GEO. w. ANDERSON.
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From Mississippi.
JACKSON, MISS, May %, 1874.
"A. C.. BARTLETT

JACKSON, MISS, May %, 1874.
Editor Ne,c National Era:
Allow me a brief space in your worthy
journal to correct manifestly wrong impress
sion under which you are laboring. know
you have been imposed upon, and feel it
my duty to give you light.
In your issue of the 18th inst, you gave
Col. G. Wiley Wells, of this State, more
credit than is due him. You stated that he
is one of the leading Republicans of this State,
and was formidable opponent of Hon. b.
X. Bruce, for the United States Senate.
These are two glaring errors. His influence
in this State is very limited, and for very
good reasons. He seems to be one of those
Republicans who think there is always time
enough for colOred men to hold offices. That
we ought to wait until the present generation
pass away and let our grand children enter
the field of politics. That we ought to sup
port such white men as he for positions, and
let our leading colored men take back seats.
L do not know of solitary instance where
he supported colored person for promi-
nent position, unless it was some person who
would rather reflect badly upon us. His &C.
tions when candidate for the United States
Senate against Hon. Mr.. Bruce were such as
to cause nearly every colored member of the
Legislature to oppose him, and doubt very
much If he got more than two or three colored
votes. When he found that he was as weak
as water, as against Col. Bruce, he withdrew
and became candidate for General Ames'
unexpired term, and in that was badly
beaten.
If had no stronger opponent for the
Presidency of the United States than he was
against Col. Bruce, 1 could safely extend to
you nop an invitation to dine with me at the
White House on the fourth of March, 1877.
Governor Ames and Hon. A. II. Howe
members of Congress from the second Dis
trict OF this State, were staunch friends ant
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From Mississippi.
CANTON, Miss, April %, 1874.

CANTON, Miss, April %, 1874
To TIE Editor ofHe Ne,o National Era:
am glad that the ERA is again made a
welcome visitor in all parts of the land.
May the time speedily come when the So
called leading colored men of Washington
will lay aside the many mountains of malice
they hold against each other, and let the car
OF progress, civilization, morality and reforms;
equal, civil and public rights so dearly
bought for us by the late Charles Sumner
move from the capital into every hut and
cabin OF the low, and to the mansion of the
opulent throughout the length and breadth
OF this dear land of ours, and clothe each
citizen with citizenship heretofore I'M
known and unenioyed by single man or
woman in the rcpublic-a citizenship hay
ing for its authority the Declaration of In
dependence and the Amendments to the
Constitution, investing each subject with
the whole panoply of both, acknowledging
the fatherhood Of God and the brotherhood
of man.
There is no man, be he black or white. or
however humble in life, who does not feel
that the colored race and their dearest inter-
ests have received severe check by the
disgraceful conduct of some of those who
assembled at-as some choose to it," The
Star Chambers umner-M onument- Meeting, !"
when viewed in the light for which it was
called. 1t is just such wranges as those to
which have referred, although not so dis
graceful among the leading colored men of
Washington, assuming, and by some accred-
ting with, the authority to speak for, the
whole race that have retarded the passage
of the Civil Rights bill. Because of the
want of harmony of action among the color
ed people at the capital the nation is, and
has been doubling the propriety of passing
so sweeping measure as the one for which
we have so long looked and so much desired.
If the bill fails to pass, it will be the fault
of those who are out of Congress, but live
at the capital of the nation, and not those
who are in Congress. What man can sum-
mon ingratitudc sufficient to believe that
have not satisfied the most sangunc expecta-
lions by their manly and powerful speeches
made in favor of the bill? Or who can en-
terrain even the resemblance Of a doubt
that NJ. Sumner, who baptized his whole
life in, and consecrated all the powers of his
great and imperial mind to the cause of our
oppressed race did not do his whole duty and
did it as no other could?
Merit is senerally the basis of political
prelerment. SO, also, is merit viewed in its
broadcast light the criterion for the confer.
ment of Civil Rights. IfCongress fail to pass
the Civil-Rights Bill, it will be because we,
as race, have not presented to the world
great qualities embracing high standard o.
moral rectitude.
Somehow, Mr.. j. Sella Martin seems te
have our friend Geo. T. Downing in a very
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.
JOB AND BOOK PRINTING.

The old curse of slavery has not yet been
thrown off, and lis influences still sticks to
many of our people. In the days. of that
Institution when one slave ran away to escape
punishment, the master commanded all the
rest to trail after him like a pack of "blood-
hounds until they caught and returned him
to bondage. So now in politics, when white
Republican to the manor born, familiar with
tins instinct, politically stabs a colored man,
all he has got to do to have colored men
justify his act is to fall back upon negro sur.
veilance, and there are many ready to obey
the old master "VOX."
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From Alabama.
WETUMPKA, ALA, May lG, Isl

WETUMPKA, ALA, May lG, 1872.
To he Einor ofMe Nco Ndiio0ai Era:
l notice in your paper of the eth instant
an article headed "The Folly, Tyranny,
and Wickedness of Labor Unions" to which,
as State Agent of the Alabama Labor Union,
l beg space in the columns of your excellent
"chronicler of passing events" to submit a
line or tw" in reply. 1850.
In the first place think that the assertion
is rather broad when you speak so disparag-
ingly of all Labor Unions without any exccp-
ton whatever. l condemn, Mr.. Editor, rs
much as you possibly can, the evil practices
OF "demaSogues," as in the instance cited
by you of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania,
organization but, to class the entire Labor
Unions OF the country in the same category,
L think unjust, to say the least.
In this State the laboring men are almost
entirely colOred, and, in consequence of the
cruel Introductory laws of ante-belum times
as to education, they are, as class, in de-
porable state of ignorance. But, ignorant
as they are, they have organized themselves
ton against the Vaccination of those that
would take advantage of their ignorance.
The institution in this State is intended to
do that for the laboring masses that they are
not, as individuals, capable of doing for them.
sclves-that is, they have men in whom they
contide to investigate and supervise their
contracts, and to see that their interests are
not compromised on account of the great
lack of the necessary experience on their
part. The Labor Union of this State is sup
plying want that has long been felt by our
people; and in justice to the workings of
the institution, so far as Alabama is con-
cerned, have been prompted to submit the
foregoing, with a respectful request that YOU
publish the same.
Respectfully,
VIM. V. TURNER,
State Agent Alabama Labor Union.
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From Virginia.
RICHMOND, VA, May 10, 1874.

RICHMOND, VA, May 10, 1874.
r, The Editor Of the Me,o National Era:
1t is curious in our political transition to
notice how little respect there is for the col
ored man in the political body of which he
forms so large part in this city. Gentle
men who claim the colored vote on each
recurring election, and do so too without any
conjunction whatever, predicate their right
to it often on the incredibly of the masses,
and are not much troubled about what they
say on the hastings or anywhere in our po-
ltical gatherings. We expect the rank and
file of the Democratic party to keep blazing
at the top of their newspaper columns the
false accusation that the colored people are
seeking social equality with them. But when
white Republicans make use of these state
ments in public meetings, and call upon us to
make public denial of them, we have simply
to remark that they do so intending it as a
political heresy, that they may draw from
the former party at our expense in an cleo
ton, by our disclaiming any desire to become
possessed of every right now claimed in the
Civil Rights Bill. The school clause in that
bill is manifestly very dstasteful to our white
Republican friends in this State. But it is
now high time that every aspirant who ex.
poets to WELD the colored vote for his espe
cial advantage to understand that this sort
of descanting upon our hopes and long denied
rights will no longer avail those who resort
to such subterfuges. No political aspran
in any other political party would dare hazart
his success in refusing by insnuation, impli
cation, or otherwise, one single particle O
right to any class of men in his party; ant
the man in the Republican party who parley.
over these rights as relates to colored mer
under such circumstances is not willing tina
we should have them even though he had i
in his power to grant them: and it will b,
well for the colored people of Virginia t,
bare this in mind until they compel their DO
litical white friends to decently and full,
recognize all the right Of which they are nov
denied. 1t will be impossible for us to attain
to that social standing, both in and out O
politics, which is so much desired. and tn,
absence of which is now the bane of all tina
is yet to be attained for the colored man.
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From Virginia.:
W. +. w.
w. Il. Derricks

To the e iitor Of the Ne,o National Era
The consideration of the present "Ciyil
Rights Bill" which has just passed the
Senate, has brought about much discussion
as to its legality and beneficial effects upon
the country at large.
But there is one clause which seems to
have elected more comment and discussion
than any others. l allude now to the COM
mon schools.
Hon. John w. Johnston, United States
Senator from Virginia, while addressing the
Senate lately on this clause, took occasion
to refer to some remarks made by the Rev.
W. b. Derricks, colored preacher, in Rich
mOnd.
Mr.. Derricks, in the course of sermon,
made some remarks derogatory of this clause
of the Civil Rights Bill. Mr.. Derricks says
it is impossible to wipe out in ten years the
prejudice that has existed for two hundred
and fifty years.
Sir, in this we agree with him; but he
should remember that this bill does not, and
cannot, wipe out this prejudice in ten years
or twenty years. Perhaps whole genera
ton may pass away before it is wiped out. In
the consideration of this question we leave
prejudice to take care of ITSELF All we look
to is its legality and eonstitutionality. Re-
Numbering that the colored man, by the Con-
stitution of the United States, is a citizen
thereof; and that as the citizen of the United
States, pay the same taxes, and are amena-
bic to the same laws, it is strange that Mr..
Derricks, on account of the prejudice which
may exist towards his race, should be willing
to sacrifice the most important of his rights.
Mr.. Boutwell,, in his recent speech upon
civil rights, truly said, that the whites and
blacks are to rule this country together; and
that to break down prejudice and bring about
the much needed good feeling between the
whites and blacks of all sections, they should
be taught together from their infancy in the
common schools of this country. We have
heard many declarations from Mr.. Derricks
with regard to the equality of the races.
The writer remembered we'll during a public
meeting in Richmond last fall how this gen.
tleman indirectly argued the necessity Of
such bill. In private conversation with
him he has often praised the efforts of ,ouns
colored men to become educated and to be
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supporters Of Col. Bruce, and we look upon
them as the leading friends of the colored
people of this State. If all our leadino
friends were as consistent as Col. G. Wiley
Wells, We would have to exclaim "Good
Lord, .delirer as ~
write this not from any personal feeling
against Col. Wells, but to correct the state
ment of his leadership among the Hepubli-
cans of this State. If you knew his actions
half so well as we do, am sure YOU would
not have given him the complimentary notice
you did.
Yours,
JACK THE EI
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FROM THE
STATES AND TERRITORIES.

Irsr Ntw NATIONAL ERA does hold responsible
for views expressed by correspondents Well written and
interesting communications will be gladly receivedl
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THE line which divides good from bad does
not run chiefly through the head. AS Goethe
puts it, "The spirit in which we act is the
highest matter.''
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From South Carolina.

JACK THE GIANT KILLER.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-11-07
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST.

We print IN this issue Of the REGIsTEKa
communication bringing forward the
name of Hon. J. n. CAMDEN for the impor-
tant position of United States Senator, TO
succeed Mr.. FOREMAN. We endorse all
that our correspondent says of the ability,
fidelity, services and character of our dis
tincuished fellow-citizen. He was one of
our earliest and most valued co laborerS
in the formation and building up of the
Democratic party in this State, at a time
when it was not popular to be Demo-
crat. and defender of the rights
of the prosecuted, and he has been a
faithful worker in the political vineyard
ever since.
The names Of other distinguished gen.
tlemen have been, and will be mentioned
for this position, for whom we have pro-
found respect. We shall be pleased over
the success of any one of them. The
choice of the caucus of the Legislature
shall be our choice, and receive our most
hearty endorsement. In the meantime
the columns of the REGISTER will be
open to the friends of AL the candidates
alike
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VERY appropriate subjects for our OPP
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J. L. HOBBS, SON g. co.
Ills Main, and l1le. Water SITS.
IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF
WHEELING.

{. II. Garden x Co..
W..
Thos. Mccormick, trustee of In Chancery.
David +. Schwartz.
The undersigned. commissioner Of said
Court, hereby gives notice that In purSUr-
ance of II decree made and entered in tn"
above entitled cause by said Court, on the
18th day OF September, \. D., 1874, he Will,
at his Office on the northeast corner Of
Chaplinc and Twelfth streets. in the city
of Wheeling, West Virginia, on the I+th
day Of November. 1874, commencing at 10
O'Clock. u. m, proceed Ia ascertain and re-
port,
First. What assets have come into the
hands of the said Trustee, Thomas Meteor
mick.
secondly. What assets. II any, belong Ia
the said trust uncOll"Cicd. their character
and condition.
Thirdly. What licuS there are. if any,
upon the said trust fund.
Fourthly. What debts arr due from the
said trust iuud, and their respective priOr
ties. II any.
tin-nt by any of the creditors Of IN" said
David +. schwartz, Or any of the parties in
interest.
And notice Is hereby given la all the
creditors az David +. schwartz, and 10 all
prisons Interested in said trust, that they
are required Ia present and prove their
claims b-fpr" m-. Un ar before the 18th day
Of November, ia, AZ my Offic" Aforesaid,
in the city oI Wheeling. West Virginia. Z.
7. =. JORDAN.
Commissioner OF said CDUr
DAVENPORT 4 nJVENER-
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