The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-02

rents Of city property and interest on
school funds, in the name of the |
city Of Richmond, was unauthorized
by the Council, and that copy of
said resolution be handed the Clerk
of the Court. Mr.. Hadly will appear
before committee of the Council and
make an exhibit and proper explana-
tons of his accounts. books and vouch-
ers. This proceeding does not bar
the city from bringing suit if it is
shown that Mr.. Hadley had any of
the money legally belonging to the
city.
Develish Secession Cropping Out.
The correspondent of the Inter.
Ocean, writing from Little Rock, Ar
kansas, Nov. 26. says:
1.-The more l study the Southern
situation, the more firmly am | con-
WINGED that there is crises pending
fully as momentous as the crises of
1859.
AhA4 MANN OhhO SGCLSSlON
was not torn out of the Southern soil.
Its roots remained, and they have
been watered and nourished by the
apostles of the lost cause, till they
terminated again, md under the sun
shine of tolerance and Northern gen.
crosby, are springing up with vigor
that will be dangerous soon. The
late political successes of the Demo
cratic party in the South have en-
boldened the element which in
augurated and carried on the war; the
ardent sympathy of their Northern
brethren, and the apathy of the Re
publican party in the North indicated
at the recent election, has encouraged
them, their hopes are rising, and the
treason that has been slumbering is
beginning to yawn.
Said the Hon. Mr.. Churchill, late
Major General in the Confederate SER
vice. and at present commander in
chief of the Garland militia, the other
day;
1T is about time to begin cracking
necks."
''The cracking of necks should have
begun just nine years ago." replied
Ex-Governor Hadley, of Arkansas,
late of the Federal army.
And Major General Churchill, late
OF the Confederate army, turned away,
chewing his gray mustache in silence,
till story from fellow Confederate
gave him an opportunity to laugh.
The Confederate's story was very
funny, SO funny that Major General
Churchill forgot his chagrin. The
Confederate told how he knocked "a
niger" down with an ak, and how
the coroner jury brought in a yircict
a few days afterward of death from
congestion of the BRAIN
Let the President recognize Garland
and the whole Democratic party in the
South will say with Major General
Churchill that
1T SLIME TO BEGIN CRACKING NECKs. ]"
| spent a portion of yesterday in
the soldiers cemetery near this city,
where six thousand Federal dead lie
sleeping. l have visited the graves of
fifty-four thousand heroes in the
South within the last three months.
Were these lives sacrificed on the
altar OF freedom. or is the Govern
ment of the United States guilty of
these and three hundred thousand
more murders? This question must
be answered now, for it is being forced
upon the nation. Seven of the ten re-
constructed States are now under
Democratic rule. Democratic rule in
this country means rebel rule-means
the authority of the old slave holding
element, for very few loyal Democrats
from the North live here long without
voting the Republican ticket. Demo
cratic legislation in Georgia has re
duced the condition of the negro prac-
tically to what it was before the war,
and very little encouragement is need
ed to complete the enslavement of the
race. Alabama Tennessee, and other
States will follow, while Arkansas is
following along, with strides that are
startling; and not only this; within
the.last Jews years the Federal sol.
diers living in the South have found
that the fact of their service has been
disgrace to them. No man can ack-
nowledge that he has served in the
| Union army without suffering ostrac
ism, insult, and dishonor, and the
stigma is becoming more and more in
| sufferable; and the North has aided
in the persecution by hating carpet.
| baggers."
The fact of the growing disloyalty
of the South was startlingly illustrated
in the last campaign. The men cleo.
ted on the Democratic ticket were re-
commended to the suffrage of the PEG
pie on
THEIR RECORD IN THE REBEL ARMY
and the recommendation was indors.
ed. A man who was disgraced and
cashiered from the Union army was
sent to Congress from this State, and
with these men in power what has the
country to hope for? The Democrat.
ic papers are outspoken in opinions
| OF movements that were called treason
in 1861; spectators all over the South
are collecting statistics and estimates
concerning slave property held before
the war, and the action of every Dem
ocratic Legislature tends directly to
the re -enslavement of tla4 segro race
The Garland government here are
very unwise in their haste; they are
showing their hands before their turf
is called, and some startling measure:
have been introduced into the Legis
lature that they had better have de
LACED till their authority was more Sc
cure than it is to-day. I have copie,
of several bills in my note book, pend
ing action, to which 1 shall ask the at
tentlon of the North. They consis
of a chain OF legislation leading t,
slavery. The first is "a bill to regu
late the labor system of that State
and to provide for contracts whicl
when law will put negro laborer a
completely in the power of his employ
err, as when he was slave; the secon
provides tor the abolition of the de
! grees of larceny, SO that negro VIII
steals chicken can be sentenced to
term of Imprisonment, as long as if h
had stolen horse; the next provide