National Republican., 1875-11-08


getting It buried they propose to make that
burial so conditionedithat If an enemy of the
dead man attempts to disturb his remains he
will get suddenly slapped in the face with the
broad-side of bomb-shell in manner that
will leave no doubt of his need of funeral.
The students of Dartmouth were only in fun,
that's all. They simply smashed in the win
dow and broke up the fixtures of that auction
room, and pummeled in a lively way the pro-
prietor and his clerk, just to give vent to their
boyish natures, only this and nothing more,
and yet those boys are languishing in the tolls
of suspense, expecting that every minute will
be their next, as the faculty have announced
its intention of rusticating them.
Looming up through all the clouds of dust
and defeat, heroic Mississippi stands as con-
spicuous example Of what courage and forti-
tude can accomplish under the most adverse
circumstances.-CoWri Journal.
Looking at it from another standpoint, mis-
cradle Mississippi, prostrated in the dust OF
fettered franchise, lies today perfect ex-
ample of what outrage and massacre and
pillage and the wretchedness of State under
the baneful influence of the White Liners
power can accomplish in the very teeth of the
law.
The Democratic editors up in Iowa have the
"blues" 10 such an extent that it calls forth
pity even from the most obdurate Republican
heart. Hear this one: ave are inclined to
think the best thing the Democrats in Iowa
can do is to abandon the hope of ever changing
the administration and give the State over to
the Methodists for a camp-meeting ground.
Providence, it seems, foreordained that it
should be so, and it is useless for few faint
hearted Democrats, scattered here and there,
to longer stand out against fixed fact"
Good Lord, deliver US from such reforms as
those instituted by our fellow-mortal, Samuel
nlden, in the great State Of New York. He
has talked much of the marvellous work which
he intended to accomplish that was to bring
to the bar of justice many Of the leading politi-
cal thieves of the Commonwealth, and be has
made much political capital through his mani
\ fold promises to be thorough and inhexible in
his work. In six months time, with all the
facilities an earnest man could wish for, he has
been able to present the result of his efforts to
the public in the form Of two or three indict-
ments against men who will in all probability
escape from the clutches of justice, even before
the matter shall have been brought to trial.
Cuban molasses is now selling at 81 to 81 .25
per gallon. Before the Patriot war commenced
it sold for only one third of this price. Last
year it sold for 60 to so cents per gallon.
Should our Government recognize the indie
pendence of Cuba, for which her Patriots have
fought seven years, maintaining at the same
time a republican government in the interior of
the island, the prices of all Cuban produce
would rapidly recede. When Texas set up her
republic, we recognized it at the end of six
months. How many years must the Cuban
Patriots maintain a republican government be-
fore they be entitled to our recognition of it?
The Richmond " hig, at the close of an article
upon the next Presidential campaign, written in
the light Of the results of the elections of last
week, and in which it expresses the opinion
that General Grant will be the 'Radical' (that
is its pet name for Republican, candidate,
says:
"AIl the South asks is an enforcement of the
whole Constitution, equality in the Union, and
that right of local selfgovernment in the States
which has never been surrendered, even when
set aside by the sword. The Presidential cleo
ton is still, we believe, in the hands of the
Democratic party. We can win if we will,
and we must win, or liberty is lost and our
country doomed"
Does the Whig mean by its qualification,
"and that right of local selfgovernment
in the States which has never been suren-
dered, even when set aside by the sword, J" to
ignore the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the Constitution, which were
the results of the arbitrament of the sword
If not, it asks no more than the Republican
partyis and always has been willing to accord.
We are glad to note that the Whig at last drops
its false name of Conservative and proclaims
itself one of the Democratic party. That is
the position we have accorded it in our classif-
cation for several years past.