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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29
Rebel Rhetoric.

Pat. DOMAIN, Of the Lexington (Mo.
Cuucasian, is at it again manutactul.
ing super-grandiloquent froth and
fustian concerning the Louisiana
matter. The following elegant spec.
linens of stilted rhetoric run mad
are from late number of his paper:
Americans Countrymen The
sovereign State of Louisiana is no
more.
Stiff and stark, but royal even in
her ghastliness, her mangled and out
ragged form stares with stony eyes to
the bleak, mid-winter heavens that
sent her no relief.
A vile january guarded Pashawlic
rears its hateful head where she, the
proud, the beautiful, the beneticent,
once sat enthroncd amid 4 paradisean
domain.
1t has enabled the ape-armed barn
burner of the Virginia Valley to
plant the booted and spurred hoof of
barbaric despotism Oh the necks OF
500, 900 freemen's sons.
Sons of the glorious rebel slres.
Arise! and, in tones ofwrathtul thun;
der, that shall shake the very founda-
ton stones of the White House head
hellion's den, and topplc down the
gigantic dome upon the mad, ruthless
libertycides of the Capitol, swear by
all the heroic memories of the Re
public; swear by the Constitution
swear by him who doeth all thing;
well; swear by everything noble and
sacred, and dear in American story,
that Federal "s,npotio", presidenti"t
outlawry and insoience, and barbor-
ian sho"lder-strop State m7"der,
shaW cease noac!
If the above docs not bring Grant
and Sheridan to their knees, then
there is no virtue in highfalutin.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29

THE Conservative thi' .,ks it has
made strong point a, ,a;nst us in
calling attention to til, fact that wo
have not published : bo ,ono ronort Of
the Louisiana ST. ,>.o,:s,o w.
Couseruot;re w :o-commlttee. The
e'01''0e ell knows that it is
NV W. pow ,ce to publish volumin-
o'' 'oo' ,nts of this kind, no matter
"'' side they lean, and if it was,
'''ere is nothing in the report in
q''cS zion save the conclusions of the
y" mmittee-with no evidence accom-
panying thcm-that Kellogg and the
returning board are set of graceless
rascals and the White League a COM
E pany of long-sutfering, timid saints;
very sucking doves of innocence
The gist of the whole thing can be
told in a dozen words, and that we
have given. But if the Conservative
is such stickler for publishing both
sides of the controversy, perhaps 1t
will tell its readers why it did not
publish Gen. Sheridan's report of out
RACES in Louisiana, document of no
great length and right to the point.
Perhaps it overlooked it. Will it re-
pair the omission?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29

S. Y. BRADsrREET, of Monticello,
was recently married to Mrs. E. A.
Wallace, blooming widow of Wa
terloo. Accompanying the announce
ment of the happy event, in the Mon
ticello Erpress, is card from Mr..
Bradstreet, which explains that the
lady who has become his wife was
the proprietoress of ladies' furnish
ing store in Waterloo, and that in
closing up her business it is necessary
that she remain there indefinitely
that therefore all the tormalitlcs per-
tanning to wedding occasions, such as
cards, receptions, &C., would be dis
pensed with, and that "business be-
fore pleasure" would be the rule
Then follows the following pungent
notice to the gossips:
"And we hope all gossip mongers, 'un.
der whose tongues lay the poison OF asps'
and all those who must know the particu-
lars of other folks business, will be con-
tent with this statement.
The gossips aforesaid will doubt
less appreciate Mr.. Bradstreet's unre'
served style of detailing family mat
tiers.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29

Mr.. L. W. Stoughton, a we'll
known lawyer and Democrat of
New York, publishes in the Times
of that city very able review of the
recent proceedings in the Legislature
of New Orleans. He shows that the
alleged Legislature which was "bro-
ken in upon by the military was
not Legislature at all, but a rcvolu-
tionary body, which had seized pos
session of the House by violent and
illegal means, and then had, "bv
fraud or force, so added to their mum
bers as to become a majority.
The statement made that a LegiS-
laturc peacably assembled had been
wantonly dispersed by orders of the
President, is pronounced by Mr..
Stoughton utterly without tounda-
ton" The New York Times APPLY
remarks: off the Democratic party
could be depended upon to approach
the Southern question in the patriot
ic spirit which Mr.. Stoughton dis
plays, there would for the first time
be a very fair chance of settling it on
Il peaceable and lasting foundation
within the lifetime of the present
generation"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29

THE Democracy have much to say
1t this time about violation Of the
Constitution, just as though that par
tv was the special defender Of that
instrument. The truth is, that they
have interposed this specious plea
almost wholly in the interests of trea-
son and rebellion. They are espec-
tally concerned for the integrity of
the Constitution, when murder and
outrage by Southern Democrats is to
be punished, or revolution crushed,
and are swift to hold it up as shield
for the most outrageous crimes that
ever disgraced humanity, but they
are Indifferent if they do not apollo
gize for that violation of the Consti-
tuition which manifests itself in tur-
bulent attempts to overthrow lawful
authority, and in brutal assaults up
on the lives and rights of citizens.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29

THE Senate Committee on Patents
have reported against the extension
of the patent of the a. B. Wilson
four-motion feed for sewing machines.
This patent, said to be the most val
liable one in existence, was issued
June 18th, 1852. 1t is owned by a
combination of the owners of the
four leading machines-the Wheeler
& Wilson, Wilcox q Gibbs, Singer
and Howe, and has enabled them to
defy competition by the force of mo-
nopoly. The patent has paid the in
yentor several million of dollars, and
it is estimated that further monopo-
Nv of the feed motion, as asked, for
seven years would be worth from
$lo,ooo,oOo to $3o,Ooo,ooo to the
owners. The Ultimate refusal to grant
the extension will be to reduce the
price of sewing machines to $50 or
less. The poor needle women of the
country have cause to rejoice.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29

WIN. A. WALLACE, the new Demo.
cratic United States Senator from
Pennsylvania, was the late chairman
Of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, who managed the naturaliza-
ton mill through which thousands of
fraudulent naturalization certificates
were issued to repeaters and other il
legal voters, after the papers had been
boiled in coffee to give them an aged
appearance. That is the way that
the Pennsylvania Democracy inn
prove on the corruption of Senator
Cameron.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29
A Brutal Outrage

The st. Louis Times, the Bourbon
organ of Missouri, prints the follow
ing brutal and cold-blooded para
graph in recent issue:
Mr.. J. II. Oglcsby was not compelled
to resign the Presidency of the New Or
leans Chamber of Commerce. After his
extraordinary testimony in behalf of the
Kellogg Government, he simply found
himself in position from which the com
mon civilitics and courtesies of social life
were withdrawn. A resident and bust
ness man for half Il century, he awokc to
the discovery that he was without a single
acquaintance among reputable business
men, and his bank-that had become IA
nous rs custodian of commercial wealth
found itself in single day without Il
single depositor Mr.. Oglesby was as
completely alone as if he had lived in Il
desert. Isolated and ignored by the
friends he had known for fifty years, the
terrible rebuke struck home as none other
could, and he resigned his commercial
honors for friendless retirement. To a
nature like Mr.. Oglesby's, such a mani
fcstation of public disapproval was crush
ing in its effect. lie now lies at the point
of death.
The facts in this case are substan-
tally these: Mr.. Oglesby has been
a respectable citizen and prominent
business man in New Orleans for
over fifty years. During all that
time no faint has ever rested upon
his moral reputation or commercial
honor. He was summoned before
the Committee to testify, and, while
he did not seek to justify Mr.. Kel-
logg or his administration, when ask
cd some questions touching kel-
logg's relations to the business COM
munity, he spoke favorably of
them rather than stain his hon
or by lying. Because he would
not lie, he was ostracised socially
and commercially and driven into re-
tirement and to his death-bed by
men who contcnded there is no
such thing in Louisiana as intimid-
alton and coercion! And this is a
sample of Southern chivalry and
honor! Could there be n more not:l-
bic exhibition of White League hate
and tiendishncss? If the Conserva-
tivcs of Louisiana thus hound 4 man
to his death whose honor has been
kept intact for fifty years because ihc
will not lie and soil his honor to suit
their partisan purposes, can there be
any more convincing proof that they
themselves have lied in their testi-
mony? The ostracism of Mr.. Ogles-
by is the blacklist deed the Conserva-
tives of Louisiana have yet committed,
and should bring upon them the swift
condemnation of I'LL high-minded
and truthful men. This is Il matter
which lies outside Of politics. 1t is a
personal outrage of the gravcst charac-
ter, which will come home to ev cry
one who has respect for truth and
honor, and it shows, as nothing else
could, the hondish hate and male
violence of the Bourbons towards any
man who will not prostitute his honor
in their behalf. A whole lifetime Of
labor for the interests of his city and
his State, and reputation in politics,
in trade, and in society, unspottcd by
single disreputable act, count moth
ing as against his refusal to lie. This
is an objectionable otfense.- Chicago
Tribune.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29

THE BULLETIN further says that Grant
having recognized Kellogg was in duty
bound to uphold him, in other words
Grant having recognized the fraud was
in duty bound to sustain said fraud
with Federal bayonets, il necessary
We suppose this to be the doctrine of the
Republican leaders. Well, 1t is evident
that the President has upheld his ''stu-
pendous fraud pretty eflcctually. Con-
serDatiUe.
The reader will notice that in all
this controversy the Conservative
studiously ignores the fact that the
McEnery government in Louisiana
had no better claims to recognition
than that of Kellogg; that the facts
90 to show that neither was legally
elected by the people. Itwould have
its readers believe that inrecognizing
Kellogg the President deliberately
deposed a State government, legal
and regular beyond all question, and
installed another in its place, fraud
ulent beyond question. This is in
accordance with its style of dema-
gogueism generally. 1t knows that
Congress having evaded its duty in
the premises, the President was COM
PEELED to recognize one or the other
Of these irregular claimants for pow
er. 1t knows that he had fully as
much warrant if not more for recog-
nizing Kellogg as McEnery, and still
in it's blind partisan fury and follow
ing its Democratic instincts, it JOINS
the howl of abuse and villifcation OF
him without pretending to suggest
how he might have acted more justly
and wisely. The President had to
Sustain with bayoncts" one of these
''frauds," or leave Louisiana in a
state of revolution and anarchy
The Conservative befouls him with
it's abuse because his choice did not
fall upon the representative of the
rebel element. That is the whole
secret of its wrath.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29

THE keynote of the future policy
of the Republican party, regarding
Southern affairs, is thus clearly and
forcibly expressed in the recent
special message of the President. 1t
is as clear cut and devoid of circum-
locution as the famous 81 intend to
fight it out on this line, &c."
"To the extent that Congress has
conferred power upon me to prevent
it, neither Ku Klux Klans, White
Leagues, nor any other association
using arms or violence to execute
their unlawful purposes, can be per-
mitted in that way to govern any
part Of the country, nor can l see
with Indifference Union men or Re
publicans ostracised, prosecuted and
murdered on account of their opin-
IONS"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29

THE Democrats of the Missouri
Legislature demonstrated theirloyalty
the other day by electing as United
States Senator Gen. F. NJ. Cockrell,
who has no distinction of any sort,
except that he commanded a division
in the Confederate army of the Ten
nessee. Intellectually he is nobody,
and politically he was never heard OF
outside of Missouri. His war record,
on the wrong side Of the contest,
was his sole claim for the place, a
claim which the Democrats of that
State fastened with alacrity to en-
dorse, even though an intellectual
giant, Schurz, abased himself on the
floor of the Senate to gain their
favor. The fatal disqualification of
Schurz was the fact that he had fought
for the Union.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29
A Bunko Settler.

The Chicago Tribune gives the
following graphic description Of how
an Iowa Granger "went in on his
muscle" and cleaned out bunko
establishment in that city, the "ropers
in'' for which had presumed too conf
IDENTIFY upon his verdancy and capac-
ity for plucking:
The bunkoists have at last met
with an ugly customer. His name is
Fredericks, and he comes from Iowa,
and is a man Of Drawn and muscle.
Arriving in the city, and strolling
about to see the sights, he was of
course picked up by a "roper inn for
blmko establishment, who of course
knew him and all his family, was an
old townsman, and was very solicit
Gus concerning his welfare. 1t was
not long before he had paced him
self on terms Of intimacy with the
man from Iowa, and volunteered to
show him the lions Of the city, and
one OF the very first lions was a
bunko establishment. The man from
Iowa, however, had not been in the
establishment long before he saw
through the little game, and remon-
strated. Then the bunko men, intent
upon fleeing him, attempted to lock
the door, but the man from Iowa
knew game worth two of theirs.
lie did not suffer himself to be strip
ped, and then 90 and whine to the
police. lie placed himself upon the
war path, promptly and cxpeditiously,
and gave them taste of granger
muscle. One, two, three, and three
OF the bunko men were piled up and
doubled up promiscuously on the
floor, wondering what hit them. Then
the man from Iowa took the key from
one of the crowd, opened the door,
and departed without molestation.
He dispensed with the services of
any more guides, went over to the
Unlversalist convention, which was
the only religious body in session,
and obtained some spiritual consola-
ton, and then went to his wife and
babies in Iowa in a serene and con
tented frame Of mind, and without
any loss in purse. We are glad that
at last one granger has turned up
who is master of the bunko situation,
and knows how to play the game
We hope that Iowa has more of them,
and that she will send them here
early and often. There is nothing
which disturbs gambler 50 much as
a brawny granger's fist planted
squarcly between his eyes. 1t is a
quiet, and prompt, and satisfactory
method of dealing with the question,
and the men Of muscle from the
rural districts should understand this
1t is Of no use for them to appeal to
the police authorities for help, and
money lost in these dens is lost for
ever. \ great deal of satisfaction
however, may be obtained as the man
from Iowa obtained it, and we hope
our rural friends will help themselves
No one will call them to account fol
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29

A Washington correspondent
writes: 81 saw General Fremont in
the lobby of the House yesterday.
He is now old and bent. His face
is deeply chiseled by the furrowing
hand of time. His eyes are slightly
bleary; his check bones stood out as
prominent as those of a Sioux chief.
Iron-gray whiskers, short and stub
by, closely trimmed down from the
base of the jaw bone, grow upon his
thin neck. His hair is yet dark
iron-gray, and is worn quite long. 1t
is combed well forward, and hangs
down in front of his ears. A we'll
worn beaver, set well back upon his
head; bright scarlet comforter; a
gray tweed light overcoat and a dark
suit of under clothing made up the
general articles of his attire. He
looks like whimsical, fussy old man
and little like the hero of the Rocky
Mountains, whose pictures during
the Presidential campaign Of 1856
always represented him with long
curls, in the garb of a Western from
tiersman, charging space, upon tic-
ny charger breathing the smoke and
fire Of bloody war;"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29
Parallels that Don't Meet.

The Dubuque Herald, with great
satisfaction, copies from the
Cresco Plain Dealer what purports to
be a parallel between the action of
the Iowa General Assembly and that
of Wilt and his associates in Louis
lana regarding the admission of men,
bers without credentials. The Herald
goes on to say that at the converting
of the 14th General Assembly Of
Iowa, the House was temporarily
organized by the election of NJ. J,
Rholfs as Speaker, pro tenn, that a
committee on credentials was an
pointed, which reported the nam .es OF
members with credentials; the report
ending with the following recommen-
dation, which was adopted:
Your committee further report tina,
John Bershiem Of the 10Th district; D. D.
Davidson of the 21st district; w. Hopkirk
of the 4th district D. B. Dumot of the
61st district, are present without creden
tials and claim to be members from theil
respective districts, and your committee
find from the evidence before them that
members from said districts, and recon-
mend that they be admitted accordingly
II. o. PRATT, Chairman.
The Herald further says, that "sim
liar proceedings were held. in the re.
cent organization of the Legislature
of louisiana" and proceeds to quote
from the report of the Witt com.
mittee on Credentials, as follows:
"That James BEIGE, Jr., of the parish OF
Bienville; Charles Schuyles and John L.
Scales, of the parish of Desalo; G. c.
Dunn, of the parish of Grant, and George
A. Kelly, .Iof the parish of Wynne, be,
and they are, hereby duly elected mem
bers of this House, and as such are en-
titled to their seats, reserving to their op-
ponents, if any, all right of condensation. y
So far the Herald processes to find
perfect parallel between the action
of the Iowa House and Wiltz's
friends, but at this point it says the
military stepped in to decide who
were entitled to seats in the Louisiana
Legislature.
The Hereld's logic in this case, as
usual, is built upon suppression or
distortion of fact. The difference
between the cases is simply this: the
Iowa House was a legal body regu-
larry organized according to the
forms of law, and therefore COM
petent to decide upon the qualitica-
tons of its members, while in the
Louisiana case, the quoted action was
that of a mob, who by means of a
coup de ctat in defiance of law and
against the will Of majority of the
House, were pretending to act as a
legislature. Nobody questioned the
right of the Iowa House to act as
they did, for the reason that everyre-
quirement of law had been complied
with in its organization. But clear
majority of the Louisiana House pro-
tested against the action of Wilt
and his associates, and it was at the
instance Of this majority that the
troops were called in; not to decide
who were members, but to remove
parties, who were by their unlawful
presence, preventing the legal organ
ization of the body.
The significance of the Xerold's
ssparallel' is the reverse Of that i'll
tended.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29
Tho Monster Concert.

Gilmore has given Boston the
great musical jubilee of the century,
and on the 9th of next month he
will give Louisville the grandest con-
cert ever attempted in the West. He
and his hundred performers are en-
gagged for the last Gift Concert of
the Library, which takes place on
that day. This will be 4 fitting finale
to the series of brilliant successes
which have characterized tho lIibra-
~ Drawings. Like everything else
which eminates from this source, the
closing concert will be the greatest
of its kind ever given in city OF
this size. The concert is for the ben:
eft of the ticket-hollcrs, and admis-
sion can only be had by showing a
ticket or part thereof at the door.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-29

If the Conservative thinks that the
subcommittee got all the evidence
available with regard to intimidation
Of voters in Louisiana, let it read
that being produced before the main
committee, now sitting at New Or
leans. And being such a stickler for
the publication of s'both sides" of tie
question, let us see it it will publish
this later evidence.