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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

THE extremes to which the opposition
of the so-called independent press to the
Republican party has carried it and its fol-
lowers is something remarkable. The
impulses which prompted the loyal people
of the country to protest against the ap-
pearance of JEFF. Davis as an invited and
honored guest on the occasion of the Win
nebago county Ill.) Agricultural Exhibi.
ton, finds no Judgment in their hearts
now. For example, the Philadelphia
Times gushes over JEFF. in the following
strain:
"At all events, the opposition to his coming
manifested in that county and State is not
commendable. 1t is time that all such enmi-
ties were buried. If jefferson Davis consents
to visit the North to perform a proper act, he
should be encouraged. There is not necessa-
rily any treason in an agricultural address,
and since the Agricultural Society of Winnie
bago has invited the Confederate President TO
address them, the laws of hospitality and
social decency require the people of that county
to receive him and treat him respectfully
his past political Sins have nothing to do with
this matter, and If his address should be peril
nent and unobjectionable in itself, he should
be allowed to come and go as quietly as any
in their opposition they will do greater dis
honor to themselves than to the object of their
hatred, who will gain rather than lose public
favor by their action"
On its face this specious argument bears
the imprint of superficial thought, and
when the Times attempts to exploit such
stuff as the opinion of any respectable class
of Northern people it is guilty Of misrep-
resentation. No good can come of ii, and
there is a danger that the people of the
South may be deceived by it. They may
as well understand now as at any other
time that the Northern people do not in
dorse anything of the kind, and will not
tolerate any attempt to exalt such rebel
leaders as JEFF. Davis in the estimation of
rising generations. Reconciliation they
will seek srdently on q common basis of
reciprocal forgiveness by the masses of
both sections, accompanied by sacredly-
kept pledges to abide by the results of the
war; but for an unpardoned rebel leader,
such as Davis is, and one who has not even
asked for pardon, they have no tender
feeling of forgiveness.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18


In THE rapid progress we have made as
nation since the war we are apt to forget
many Of the admonitions of abiding prin-
ciple which served to guide us safely In
financial matters before the necessities of
civil strife compelled US to change our cur
rency system. Reverdy Johnson's letter,
printed by US a few days ago, has served to
revive recollections of those principles, not
the least among which is the virtual prohi-
bition against irredeemable paper currency
that follows from q strict construction of
those provisions Of the Constitution relating
to this subject. No loyal man will dispute
the power of the Government, as an act of
selE:preservation in time of war, to issue q
substitute for specie, and that the legal
tender clause of the act of Congress pro-
viding for that issue followed as natural
consequence; but Mr.. Johnson's suggestion
not altogether new, but, nevertheless,
forcibly put-that a further issue of IRE
deemable promises to pay, in time of peace,
is unconstitutional, is worthy of serious
consideration. Let the rag-money Demo
cratic sticklers for constitutional rights and
restrictions take this home to themselves.
1t is an admo1ition from one of their own
party leaders, and points directly to the
path of resumption provided for by the Re-
publican party.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

DESPITE the conciliatory demonstrations
of the Southern Democratic leaders, the
Southern outrage milf continues to grind
out evidence of the murderous hostility of
their followers to the blacks of that section.
The San Antonio (Texas) Rzpress thus
analyses a recent affair of this kind at Bur
ton, in that State, as reported to the Gal
weston NeUS:
'Ir the first place young white manis muir
-dered, and suspicion instantly rested on the
negroes and then a mob of white citizens,
headed by the sheriff, secured the country
causing, no doubt, alarm and dismay. They
came upon The suspicioDed, and they were
armed and resisted the mob, and in resisting
they wounded two of their assailants. Two
OF the negroes were captured, and while on the
way to jail were mobbed and hung. The white
men shot were nice young men, and the negroes
had bad record No matter how much the
special of the NelrS or anybody else NAV try to
smooth over this sort Of business, the truth
comes to light and is published and read by
hundreds of thousands of American readers,
The readiness to get up mobs, headed by sher-
ifs, to hunt down negroes, is painfully appa-
rent, and the mobbing and hanging of negroes,
without evidence, law or trial, is too common.
The sherfffs ought to be able to arrest negroes
without "a sing the whole country, and when
q mob rushes upon negro, guilty or innocent,
he but obeys the instinct of self-protectiou If
he resists his assailsnts. We have had nothing
but murder and mob violence since Coke began
to reign. He felt glad over the murder of a
policeman: he riots in blood now"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18
sTRYEf CAR TllNgTT.

II Is very fitting that Washington, Is the
capital Of the nation, should take the lead
In Introducing and perfecting all those con-
yenient adiuncts to city He that the inge-
nuity OF men present from time to time to
answer the varying needs of7human COM
fort and ease. 1t is no exaggeration to
say that years ago when WashingtonI was
city of magnificent distances, journey
from one part of the city to another was
fully as troublesome, and cost full as much.
both in time and money, IS it now does to
60 from Washington to Baltimore. An
hours hack ride over uneven and unpaved
streets, at $3.50, was no unusual method of
getting from Capitol Hill to the west
end of the city. What an advance has
been made upon this state of affairs may be
seen now on every, street. And the needs
ofour population are constantly augmenting
the means of cheap transit within the city,
until we may well expect that even old
men among US will live to see the time
when twenty or thirty lines of street rail-
ways, or equivalent omnibus or chariot
lines, will afford opportunities for riding
within few hundred yards Of any portion
of the city. Even now the extreme north
east and northwest sections of the city and
the river front are the only parts of the
city that have not even now very excel
lent street-car facilities. A portion of this
unsupplied section will soon have conve-
nisnces in the South Washington and O.
street railroad, and another part will be
supplied by the new chariot company.
With these and lines running along the
north edge of the city and along the river
front, an the present needs of the popula-
ton will be abundantly supplied. Five
years will see such lines in operation, but
the street railway system will, within the
lives of most of US, find here far wider
expansion. Speed the day when two cent
fares will produce twelve per cent. divi-
dends,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

THE ADVICE to Northern Republicans
frequently offered in these columns, that
the Southern wing of the party is entitled
to consideration as strong if not a con-
trolling element in the next nominating
convention, is having good effect. This
shows itself in the renewed interest in
Southern affairs lately developed in the
Republican press of the North, and conse-
quent Acknowledgements that the designing
assertions of the Gushers that peace and
brotherly love prevail among the whites
and blacks or Republicans and Democrats,
of the South, are untrue. In other words,
the Northern people are beginning to re.
call the pledges made daring the days of
reconstruction to protect Southern Re-
publicans in the exercise of their rights,
and they are preparing to redeem them
like honest men.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18
EDITORIAL JOrTINGs,

"A Democratic politician of Ohio says 1--WE
are fast drifting into arnica."
II Sam Cary says "his mind is unalterably
made up" Made up of what, pray teu7
Poor Grimwood's betrothed will cease to
hope now, for his body has been found on the
beach of Lake Michigan.
- The total June yield of -ore-gold, silver
and base metal-in the Territories was ST.
1874, 800. The times are lively in the West.
The clearings of the Chicago banks last
week footed up total of s2l III ,255.6S, being
s., zoo, coo in excess over the corresponding
week last year.
Following close upon the heels of the In
teresting scientific meeting at Detroit comes
the prosy greenback convention to which will
be attached the Weeping Willow of the Wis
sahickon.
Judge Liantsrd, of the Tarascon Tri-
bunal, in France, has been relieved of his func-
tons for accepting bribes." This was thought
so delicate subject in that benighted country
that the court Of inquiry sat with closed doors;
- Some time ago Governor Tilden had a
stye on his eye, and surgeon was called, who
lanced 1t. But in doing so he severed the ele-
vator muscle, since which time the Governor
has had no control over his optic, and it
strolls about in the socket whichever way to 1t
1t seemeth best, and now Eli Perkins sees In
this deformity clear evidences of paralysis.
Judge Kelley has made that speech again
Three hundred Chicagoans listened to it, and
that piece of intelligence will fill st. Louis
with a fierce joy. The Hon. John Wentworth
was to have been chairman, but did not ap-
pear, and the same was true of the numerous
vice presidents and secretaries, many of whom
are said by Chicago papers to be hard-money
men. If they were present they were un-
willing to appear on the platform in response
to the invitation extended to them to do so.
Judge Kelley must acknowledge his failure if
he can't initiate even his audience.
1t is rather interesting that Governor
Allen, of Ohio, who is candidate for Presi-
dent, is really paralytic. ellis arms" says
correspondent of the Times, 'have been para
lyzed, and are quite useless for most purposes.
He signs his name only with great labor, and
in transacting State business, except in sign
ing pardons, he makes his signature, or 1t is
made for him, with an engraved stamp. He
could not sign as many bills in q week as Con-
gress passed in the last hour of the last ses-
sion." Luckily, however, there is no chance
that Allen will be the next President.-N. Y.
S,fn
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

WE ARE BEGINNING to have aNbetter.
opinion of female suffrage than formerly.
The practical result of the experiment in
Wyoming shows that it has had much to
do with freeing that Territory from the
curse of rowdy rule. The Laramie Sen
tiasl, in recent article on the subject took
occasion to characterize it most enthusi-
astically as priceless blessing" 1t
says: - -
ave never had q grand jury here that
boldly and unfinchingly took hold to investi-
gate offenses against decency and morality
and hunt out and bring Offenders to punish
ment till We had grand jury composed
largely of ladies'"
A Cheyenne correspondent of the Omaha
Bee, referring to, the marked changes it
has wrought, says: -sae
"Six years have now passed by, and the
ladies have purified the ballot box and re-
formed election day in Wyoming Territory.
The gambler and the rough has his vote as of
yore, but under the new law the respectable
man of family controls one, two, or three
votes, for wives and daughters generally vote
with the head of the family. The female
vote Is thus cast for the better class Of candi-
dates; consequently the criminal classes are
the only ones who want to see female suffrage
abolished" . Do q. .. . a-.
This view of the case, 1t must be adj
mitted, is decidedly different from the re-
suits of practical enforcement Of female
suffrage generally entertained by the pub
Lie. In fact the opinion Of the public has
heretofore been very generally based upon
suggestions regarding the course that
would be pursued by them if the cork-screw-
curled female suffragsns who wear panta-
looms and shrek Of woman's wrongs
should realize their ambition to become
full-dedged citizens. Sensible men have
believed and still believe that this class of
females would disgrace or belittle their sex,
and add nothing to the purity of the ballot.
It seems, however, that the average
woman with the ballot in her hand is still
q woman, and that the influence of her vote
is naturally enough cast in behalf of moral
ity. At the same time it Is evident that a
man who is entitled to the respect of his
family generally manages to control the
votes of the female portion of it. But we
wish it to be plainly understood that what
we have here written shall not be construed
as an invitation to volunteer correspond
ents to give us more light on this subject
either by way of experience or theory.
Our patent extension, bay-windowed, and
cupola-ed waste-paper basket is already
stuffed to repletion with such contribu-
tions,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

THE exposure of alleged frauds in the
Quartermaster's Department of the Marine
Corps by lone of our morning cotempo-
raries mas proved to be toothsome morsel
for the Detective press. The fact that the
story was based upon the unreliable au.
thority of an ex-clerk of the Department,
who resigned because his superior officers
did not think he was entitled to promotion,
will make no difference. The detectives
and sub-detectives will vamp and reVamp
the laundering tale, and publish it and re.
publish it with additions and variations
until the entire corps, hitherto an almost
unheard- of institution, will become no.
torious as being accused of theft. All this
from the indiscreet publication of ground
less charges against body of respectable
gentlemen,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

CARELESS of their political or personal stand
ing 1t is such declarations as this that
confirm the public belief in the purity Of
the Presidents purpose, and one such letter
will serve to answer q thousand columns Of
detractIon Of his character In the Opposi-
ton press. 1t is worth repro lucing, and
here il is - So
"Referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
This was intended for private letter for my
lnformation, and contained many extracts
from st. Louis papers not deemed necessary to
be forwarded. They are obtainable, and have
no doub: been all read by the Federal officials
In st. Louis. forward this for information,
and to the end that if 1t throws any light upon
new parties to summon as witnesses, they may
be brought out. Let no guilty man escape If 1t
can be avoided. Be specially vigilant, or in.
struct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud
to be, against all toho insinudts that they hdvt
high influence to protect them. No personal con-
sideration should stand In the way Of perform
ing public duty. U. 8. GRANT.
tAIII
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

THE intense bitterness of feeling among
certain classes, developed by the recent
furry regarding the invitation of JEFF
Davis to deliver an agricultural address in
Illinois, shows itself in many ways. For
example, we have received long letter
from some one who subscribes himself a
"War Democrat, in which the writer de-
clares that che has no respect or love for
rebels, except when they are dead"
While we earnestly deprecate such senti-
ments, we do not hesitate to give them
publicity, without indorsing them. because
we believe the Southern people, as well as
the Northern Gushers, should understand
that the exaltation of such rebel leaders as
JEFF Davis cannot fail to produce unfor-
tunate results. "War Democrat" con-
cludes his letter by declaring his willing
ness that the 'unreconstructed rebels Of
{" the South shall teach their children to
Glove and reverence the Lost Cause and
" its leaders as much as they please; but,
" for one," he adds, 81 intend to do all
" that can to teach my children that any
- man WHO Idhcs UP olAo oSoiHSs nis SON-
eminent is unworthy of any other fate
ethan that which any traitor deserves.
1--WE cannot afford to nourish paricides,
land if we agree to forget and forgive the
masses of our Southern brethren tor their
great crime, we must not neglect to pro-
vide that the future history of this count
try shall furnish q warning as regards
the shareholders rebellion as pointed as
e that which the fate of Aaron Burr fur
nisbes in the history of our Revolution.
Without this we may expect that rising
generations will justify some future re-
bellion on the ground that their fathers
"aided to make treason respectable, and
"set the example of forgiving traitors.
"Who but JEFF Davis is the man of the
"South now alive to make such an exam
"ple off" 1t must be admitted that this
style Of argument is almost unansWerable,
and that "War Democrat has struck &
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

AT THE last session of Congress it was
the custom of a certain class of selfish
Northern Republican leaders to declare
that their Southern co-partisans were I'M
worthy of aid, because they were unable
to help themselves. In the face of such
discouragement as this, and unaided
and alone, the North Carolina Re-
publicans have now the most substantial
victory of the year. When the time comes
for them to speak it is probable they will
remember who were and were not their
friends in their hour of adversely. A fine
time they will have in balancing accounts
than
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18
LECTURE HUMBUGGERY.

There is no way by which the people of
the United States are more thoroughly
cheated than the manner by which many
men and women of limited talent are foisted
upon them as geniuses by the lecture bu-
reaus and perhaps there is no clearer evil
dence of the indiscrimination of the Amer
lean masses than the reception which they
give some of these lecturers. An eminent
case in point is Cough. Just now the fol-
lowing item is going the rounds of the
press:
"John B. Cough is preparing a new lecture
at his farm, near Worcester. He has delivered
over Z 200 lectures and speeches in his life. In
his work as temperance orator and lecturer he
has travelled 402 900 miles. He has lectured
in Philadelphia los times, in New York 304
times, and in Boston 1856 times"
Now the fact is that, notwithstanding
Coughs success, he is incompetent to write
a short page of good English. While he
may outline some of his lectures, it is well
known that he depends upon others to give
them symmetry and such rhetorical finish,
a very little of 1t usually, as they possess.
He then commits them to memory, and re-
cites them. He is not an orator, in any
true sense, but depends for his success upon
his capacity as an actor-second-rate, at
best-and he never could succeed upon the
stage. Think of an orator, Patrick
Henry, or John Adams, or Tom Mar.
shall, Tom Ewing, s. s. Prentice, Clay,
Webster, or Sumner, Phillips or any other
true orator keepirga business account of
the number of speeches or orations he has
delivered, and the number of miles he has
travelled to deliver them Just 10S times
in Philadelphia, 304 in New York, &C.,
has Cough opened his mouth Why most
likely Webster or Sumner or Bishop Simp-
son, &C., &C., Of our eminent speakers and
preachers, dead or living, could never esti-
mate with any degree of certainty how
many times they had addressed public
bodies. But Cough has made his notes,
and figured every thing down to an unit for
advertising purposes. There's something
spurious upon the very face of all this.
And Cough is not the only man of little
merit who has been passed upon the people
as firstclass. 1t is this sort of "made.up"
orators and lecturers who have vitiated the
public taste. Who ever heard one of
Coughs lectures which rose above the
dignity of a string of disconnected stories,
pretty well toldf The lecture committees
owe it to the public to select for their
courses higher class of talent than they
are wont to. These business orators who
keep absolute accounts of the number of
their "talks" are hardly up to the proper
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

WALKER, the disgraced ex-army officer,
who appears as a witness against the In
dian Bureau, seems to be inspired with a
desire to make others as hideous in their
public repute as he is physically, and he is
a second Gwynplaine. Victor Hugo would
not have been compelled to draw upon his
Imagination for L'homme qui Bit if he had
once seen Walker. But this is the poor
mans misfortune, and it would be one
which would commend him to earnest pity
fit were not for the fact that he is trying
constantly to make himself as bad as he
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

GA MIR. WELSH" of Philadelphia, seems
determined to eclipse Private Dalzell in
the number of letters he writes to the pub
lie press But Welsh, for some inexplicable
reason, receives better treatment than his
competitor. One is about as reliable and
reasonable as the other, and we suggest
that it isn't fair to consign Dalzell's epistles
to the waste paper basket, while Welsh is
allowed to build monuments in type of his
own selfish and stupid malice.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

Now THAT they have been defeated, the
North Carolina Democrats who instigated
the recent Convention campaign in that
State pretend that they never regarded itas
a partisan measure" The whites and
blacks who voted against the Convention
have not forgotten the intensity of the
Democratic abuse heaped upon them as the
''Negro party" for not standing by the
Democracy, or the white mans party"
This new phase of the Gush movement is
the most barefaced and impudent that has
yet been developed; but it Is at the same
time SO transparent that it will not win.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

"DELANo must be removed instantly, !"
is the unvarying shrek of number of
thoughtless, if not brainless, newspaper
writers. Why he should be removed they
do not say, except that charges have been
alleged against him. Suppose investiga-
ton should prove those charges to be IN
founded, what thenH 1t will be time
enough to remove him when his guilt is
firmly and officially established.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18
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PERSONS LEAVING the city during the sum
mer months can have TIE DAILY NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN sent to their address by man,
postage paid, and changed Is often as they
may require, by ordering it at this office.
Terms: Sixteen cents per week, or sixty-slx
osuts per month: invariably In advance.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

standard. There are other popular rant
ers-but we reserve them and their illite-
racy for another occasion. How they
'smake up" their lectures, and deliver
''simpromptu'' speeches which are months
old, and pass for orators, is funny story
which should be told BY itself
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

PRESIDENT GRANTS directions to Secre
tary Bristow, regarding the prosecution of
the Whisky Ring, have the sound of the
true metal. The boasts of the thieves that
they possessed sufficient influence with the
authorities to protect them from punish
ment have long been used to the detriment
ofthe Republican party, but now it appears
that from the very outse: the President was
d :termined to drive them to the wall, re-
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-18

PRESIDENT GRANT, on his recent trip
through New York, Rhode Island and
elsewhere, has been received with cordial
welcomes and earnest enthusiasm. But
the strange part of it is that the Associated
Press reporters have acknowledged these