Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1875-07-16

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Ir IS very gratifying to know that
while almost every other department
of business is languishing because of
the lack of the requisite finances, the
United States Government continues
to make monthly reduction Of our
public debt. 1t is true it is small
one, but to have this continually re-
duced, while our State debt is going
the other way, is a contamination
e.evoutly to be Wished During the
month Of June the public debt was
reduced $l,43l, 249.56. 1t is true
that at this rate it will take a long
time to extinsuish the debt, but if we
eau manage to pay off some Of 1t every
month while business IN every dlrec-
ton is stagnatel and the financial
crisis is upon us, we shall be able to
return to healthy payment when
trade and commerce revive and q re-
newal of business pcrvades ali depart
ments of industry. Then, instead Of
one million, ten millions will mark
our monthly payments. Then those
whose faith, confidence and devotion
to the national cause were strong
enough during its darkest hours to
induce them to empty their purses
into the national treasury will see
that the people integrity was strong
er and better than the subtertuge OF
redemption, open or covert, or the
noisy emptiness Of politicians.
IT seems that Frederick Douglass
and Prof. John NJ. Langston, two lead
ing colored men of the colored race,
and Representative men in the United
States Of "our American fellow-ci it,
2ens Of African descent, in speeches
delivered at Hillsdale, near Washing
ton city, on the 9Th day Of July,
announced their intention to take a
new departure and "cut loose from the
wLite men who had been the authors
of their misfortunes in the Freedmen s
Bureau deposits"
Both gentlemen were particularly
emphatic in emphasizing their words.
These utterance5 were bold and out
spoken, and the New Departure may
mean q great deal. The Washington
Nahouo1 RepubhcM,in noticing these
speeches, says;
prof. Langston and Mr.. Douglass
are eminently qualified to speak for
the race to which they belong, and
their no uncertain utterances on the
present condition Of affairs should
be read with care by men Of all par
ties. The movement is an important
one, and its probable results will
cause much anxiety among the think
ing men Of both races and all par
ties.
SINCE the result of the Tilton-
Beecher scandal trial has become gen
orally known, the friends Of Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, Pastor Of Ply
mouth Church, have rallied in full
force. They held a meeting Of the
pew holders in the lecture room of the
church on the 9TH instant, and re-
solved to raise the Pastor $ salary for
the current year from $4,000 to
100000. They seem to have full
confidence in their Pastor S innocence
and usefulness, and are determined
to sustain him in a princoly manner.
They resolved said one Of the speakers,
1--WE will show to the world that Ply
mouth Church can spend millions Of
dollars in defence Of her pastors inno-
cepce, but not one dollar for black
mail or bribery" Mr.. Beecher has
gone to the White Mountains Of New
Hampshire to be absent for three
months, and thinks there are twenty
wears of usefulness yet in store for
him as a preacher Of the gospel.
AS the day for the meeting Of the
Democratic State Convention ap-
proaches, the contest wakes closer and
warmer. 1t is about an even bet as
to who will carry off the high honor.
THREE young mon in Milton, Geor-
gia, on the 30th Of June, while IN the