Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-08-25

ageuCIes j DuIIng u0Wn IeOeIIIOn-
Hendricks accepted this idea and made his race upon
II Tor Governor in 1855 will appear by his speech
IN convention the sth of January of that year. In
10y Thief Justice Chase delivered the opinion Of
majority of the Supreme Court of the United states
that the legal tender feature of the was
constitutional. The Democracy again bnbbed around
ana naled Inc decision with delight. The next year
alorliy OF the Court reversed this decision and the
Demoeracy with one accord charged Grant with hav-
Ing pAeAed tne court to sustain Infamous war
measure After that they again bobbed around and
said that Rreenbacks the best currency the
ny ever hadi tnat al banks ought to be abolished
and the government alone furnish money to the peo-
pie.
FINANCIAL RESOLUTIONS.
To cap the climax of their shufing and see-sawing
the subject at the late ST. Louis Convention theT
adopted the following resolution:
We denounre the failure for all these eleven wears
of peace make good the promise of the legal tender
notes, which changing standard of value in the
hands OF the people, and the nOn-payment of which
is disregard Of the plishted faith of the Nation"
After thus arragnIns the Republican party for hav-
ing failed force specie payments in the reso-
luton they demanded the repeal of the providing
for the resumption OF specie payments on the 1st Of
January, 1879 giving reason that the act stands
in the way of resumption The necessary meaning of
this resolution is that the act put of resumption, and
but for could have specie payments at once OF
course. party talking thus boldly must have some
measure or remedy to propose by which the govern
ment can at redeem the greenbacks in cum ac-
eordlng TO promise But the next resolution shows
that tits only snug the joiner and not the lion, who
is roaring and reveals The silly hypocrisy OF all that
is said BY declaring that specie payments can be
wise finance, and official retrenchmsnt;
OF, in other words, that nothing can
be done, and the whole subject should be dropped.
The fact is the first two resolutions intended for
the East, and to show that the Democracy are de-
termined 10 have specie payments At once, and the
third resolution for the West, and to show that the
Democracy do not intend to have specie payments at
all. This part of the platform has wonderfully
familiar look, and leaves the impression that thew
may have been prepared by one of the candidates
the ticket. The position Of the Democracy on the
currency question illustrates its moral aud intelee
uNalrr r1ufar@ En1
of conviction and total absence of measures
policies, or anything wearing the semblanee of
patriotism and we find only cunning vascillatiOn and
hypoeriey. They are for and against specie pay
ments, for and against greenbacks for and against
banks, for and against ination just the varying
prospects OF the hour indicate gain loss OF votes
The vane upon the church steepe does not point the
direction of the wind with more industry than do the
Democracy turn their battered and defoImed face
the popular breeze.
REPUBLICAN ACTION.
The Republican party has been and still Is In favor
Of return specie pa yments. 1t regards gold aud
silver the standards Of value and has looked for
ward steadily aud honestly the time when the paper
money OF the country should be at par value That
there mas been, and IS today diversity of opinion in
the ranks Of the party in regard to the and
the time Of resumption TO be denied but there
has been general concurrence the necessity of
resumption and the importance of adopting practical
measures looking to that result. 1t in this spirit
that the act Of January, 1879, passed fixing the
lst OF January, 1873 the time when resumption
should take place by the redemption of greenbaeks in
cOn and for that purpose authorizing the Secretary
of the Treasury to reserve the surplus gold in The
Treasury and to sell bonds 10 procure the additional
gold that might be necessary. Whether these
preparations are sufficient and that addi-
and whether in fact the time fixed is not premature
is doubted by many who the earnest friends of
specie payments. But what has been done hon
estly intended to accomplish the great purpose and
when the ST. Louis Convention, and Tilden and Hen
bricks, pretend to be greatly in earnest about specie
payments, and denOuuee the Republican party for
having brought them ahOut before
the repeal Of the Resumption because il is an OBJ
stacle in the way of resumption then fail utterly
to point out any method OF resumption and talk only
in empty platitudes about resuming 'by public
mies,' "wise finance" and 'Ofieial retrenehment,"
we realize now utterly heartess insncere, and gnor
ant they are about the whole business. The platform
and letters are intended reconcile the hard-money
men of the East, who are demanding specie payments
at once, and the greenback men of the West who
opposed to resumption altogether and every interme
date shade and class Of opinion to vote for Tden aud
Hendricks, and are intended to make each class of
men believe that all the others be cheated and
their wishes alone TO be consulted
The opposing factions on the currency question
each and all draw the most ample Endorsement from
the late speeches OF Mr. Hendricks He has with con-
sunmate impartiality divided his logic between the
exIravaganzas Of Landers the respectable repudaton
OF Pendleton, and the cold, metallic demands OF Wall
street.
UPON WHAT PROSPERITY DEPENDS
The prosperity of the country depends upon the
continued administration OF the government upon the
true and tried principles of the Republican party.
The proposition of the Democratic leaders to make
good times for everybody, if the government is put
into their hands, is like the advertisement of 0uack
medicines to all the ills that flesh is heir to- The
81. Louis platform resembles the veracious pubica-
uons of Bulbs Sarsapara and Brandreths Pills which
are warranted 10 kill or cure, the may be- The
political quacks who made the ST. Leuis prescription
are among the deadly in the profession, and have
extensive graveyards in all the Southern and in
The States Of Louisiana, Alabama Mississippi South
Carolina, and Florida certainly Republican
are Vermont and Massachusetts with an aggregate
majority of less than g0 diVidad fn
lows: Louisiana, 1900; Alabama 600; Mississippi
$4,000; South Carolina, $1,000; Florida, 5000. Yet
the hope Of Democratic success in the approaching
election depends absolutely upon carrying these
States, which can be done only by murder intmida-
hon, and fraud There is not well-nfOrmed Demo-
crat anywhere who does not know that these States
are large Republican if permitted to have fair cleo
tion They count with great confidence upon violence
and its consequences. What has Deen done success
fully in some of the Southern States they expect to be
done in all. Murder thus becomes a liked political
element in the Democratic problem. Should they
carry these States 1t will be by bloody revolution
which deserves the name of election than the
murder Of the Christians by the Turks
SLAUGHTER IN THE SOUTH.
Five, ten, OF twenty negroes are killed, and some
times one white man, is the report, but every an
nouncement is followed by the stereotyped lie that
the negroes began the attack, and the whites were
acting in self-deiense. The negroes poor unframed
almost unared, and unskilled in the use OF weapons
are always represented preeipitating themselves
upon their Wel-armed sklllful, and intrepid enemies
and procuring themselves to be shot for no other rea
eon AnAA " 4aAS PoAALCaA Ln6I northern
friends.
HAMBURG.
The murder few days since Of ten negroes in Ham
burg, South Carolina, under circumstances OF
ordinary atTOcty is but the opening OF the Tilden
campaign in that State. 1t the beginning of the
work Of intmidaIion-a terrible blow strike
into the hearts of the colored people. Upon a very
mean and scandalOus preIext about three hundred
white men suddenly assembled in this little town, in
habiied almost exclusively by cOlorad people, perpe
traied the foul murders, the and children
TO the woods in deadly fright and searched and sacked
their humble homes
Had band of Sioux Indians suddenly pounced
upon peaceabe white village and inflicted such hor
rors, the cry Of determination would have gone up
throughout the land.
1t is openly proclaimed that the Republican major
ity Of 700 In South SaronR is to be overcome, and
the State carried for Tilden; and this be done
only by frightening cOlored from the polls COM
peing them by force fraud to vote the Democratic
ticket
MISSISSIPPI
In Mississippi, since reconstruction in 1862 the
1872 Grant carried il BY S7 votes Last year after
cappaipn of horrors The Democracy carried IL by
majority of over 5000, and complete and abject
was the that in the county Of Yazoo where the
Republicans had registered vote OF 427 they polled
but votes and these permitted only that
might be said that Republicans could vote. The |
Whte-Liners organized Into military companies
in every county, we'll armed, and marched up and |
down the country with threatening demonstrations |
urders, whippiBgs and every form Of violence were
of daily aud prOmineDt Rapuhlnans