Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-22
our WASHINGTON LETTER.
Sam. Randall Did tt Republican Confidence
and Democratic eDespondeney Don Piatt's
Opinion ofcentennial Visitors -Repaying
Penn. Avenue-The $3oo, ,ooo, 900 Loan
--"Ameriea Before Europe."

WASHINGTON, d. G., Sept. 16, 1876.
We have heard many Of the clerks, who
under the mandate Of Sam. Randall, have
been dropped from the rolls in the De-
complain Of this ostracism. An
inesiry into the political antecedents Of
zobho Of these unfoFtvnates show that they
we're in political accord with Sam. himself.
lie is to blame for thus prosecuting his
friends. lie is "the man who struck Billy
Patterson" and his Democratic friends
should hold him responsible.
We took stroll along + street in this
city, few evenings ago, and in passing |
the respective headquarters OF the Repub- |
lican and Democratic Congressional Com |
mittees, we we're impressed with the life |
and activity in the vicinity of the former
and the gloom and quietness which mark
ed the location OF the latter. The recent
news from Vermont and Maine seemed to
have given life even to the Republican
banner while the Democratic rag hung
listlessly from the flagstaff. This seemed
to indicate that coming victory which
"throws its shadows before" We say, "let
il come"
There is much more activity in Wash
ington during the recess this year than il
usual on account OF our numerous visitors
to the Centennial Exposition. \ very
large number of the people from the far
| West who come to Philadelphia visit the
national capital for the first time. Al
most all these people who appear in our
| streets, public buildings, hotels and board
ing houses are well dressed, well behaved,
temperate and sober, and IN the mass give
every Indication that they beiong 70 tha'
ciaSS OF lhtelIigehi industrious, haruy,
weil-to'ao people, VINO are lhe pone ,; anu
'lnew OF the country, ana Dy theF nNes
ana @ character 90 hohor 10 'ne hasiIn. .u
nn"t s'len Sh"Il we lnlI,k 1I gay o' r:' rne
Ipl'oNng PuiTgL"Pn cuPpeo ro"I ~
zen organ P"oilsne" !" tnIS I',y' ~ . .ne
though"u' honSS' PeoPIe u, ,lle Tou,'u
re'i inT ui"'I.oe vi 1ue Vi VI, ne't.
ShopoISn uplorlerT,"nu 'nt" Ju"ES ""e'i-
l VeH' w H"PPoI' parry "noHe
N"0,'e7 ""'e ca ie'STu W., e''0" NV''0"'P' I"'
'he ho'cS' '"H'eS' iheSe "le MS "oiue
Ihe hI,oredI hi-ied' 6eggatiy moo Ina'
uII',s ,n.o gAI,! on ~ Ie'9In ,., i.on,
,i'o ssysrest cr;,'c;sn on on, n.t;on's ,To.nsr. ).
itv and onr national breeding ever suffered by
an all-wise Providence to live, or allowed by
a sensible generation to third the paths Of life,
a memento OF the smalinesso of humanity. When
we say the average Cente nnial visitor Is mean
ertnnn oeaa COG Lo'iea ~ tan @ pail we, we are ~,
u"s noo ;hn e,;un 1no obs,ac,er % ~ III.
strange class Of peopIe' Rude dirtv, mean
and hungry, an army Of starved grassboppers
would be balm Of Gilead to their stead.
They carry their provender in their pockets,
eat II on she curbstones, and leave the city
"nen 'he~ "Iuer pays OUT
NnVu m EfN IA Mt "a a a
which this supporter OF Samuel J. Iliden
makes upon the average industrious citi-
zen who visits the Exposition from the ial
West.
Pennsylvania avenue is now being re-
, paved, and large number Of men are al
work upon this splendid thoroughiare re-
moving the old wooden blocks to give
: place to better and more durable road
I way. and when the work now In progress
! is finished very marked and decided I'M
+, provement will be witnessed. But TIM
work has been commenced too late In tht
4 season to be completed before winter, ant
e just here comes IN the complaint that thi
-? avenue might be rendered almost lmpassa
6ie ior the greater portion oil the winter
n lhe WORK should nave been commenced
: by June last, but our ex-Confederate Con
e gress held back and would not move II
e the matter until near the end oil the ses
e sion, when all the mem6er knew that I'M
n work must be done: This Is one oi IN
t many illustrations showing the utter iail
- ure OF this Forty,iourth Congress to NEE
Is ana Wisely provide Tor the pnolc e1lgeh
= cies' Nothing was done IN time, but Day
&c and weeks and months were wasted =
e iruitless debate over matters which shouI
d nave been acted on AT once.
E. Inc TACT that the secretary OF ihe iTea'
nry had soid the three hundred millio
y loan, conStltntPd OF a per cent. oohds, p.
le quletus upon that OH repeated cry; III
a republican party had ruined the conntr.
% lion. Mr.; Cooo iried IN buchanans TN
Is 20 put nVe milllon loan on the n mark
IL NJ IL per cent ana IalIe1. Inc uineren'
er between then and now, shows how the II
r pu0hcans nave ruined the country:
c, On thursday evening, the l4th lhs'ah
~ mere was large gaEhering at Hyceu
10 hali, called Dy the liberal hepuDllcans
NJ near COI. IL. II. ingersoll, the author OF u
ne NE OF horace Oreeleyi make hayes al
81 "heeierspeec Inc mceiing was graz
eu success ana Goi' lngersoirs ADDRESS RAJ
Dy out with telllng erect upon the sha
W Demoeracy.
es' Count de Gasparin, IN his scholarly wo
's- entitled, America Before Europe" ait
ne discussing the cause OF the uprising or
ne oeliIon, holds the following iang9ag
ty "Ah! 1t Is with nations as with indivl
uals. The people who make progress
the people ot suffering ana combat. \
BILE sufierlngS, glorious combat, wltho
ret which uprising (adVancementr is imp'
Ia sibie. No never WIZ consent 10 IA
n among disasters, the bloody victories
. humanity. IL would oe 70 ven the MOI
w. side oil history; congratulate America
'en on having wiiied the cure with It's nee
on sary conditions, on haying recoiied nei'i
~. before the bitterness Oh It's necessary rem
= dies, nor the Sharp pain oi the oPerati'
A'e nor the oesponaeney which pTecedes a
paVeS tne way lot tue observation-disclosures
6 strength