The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-09
PUBLIC OPINION. .

The GAINESVILLE Tenn Chronicle has
! the following item As a feather in its
cap Itadicalism can boast the contisca-
ton Of the homes Of jefferson and Lee,
us well as d proposition to place the
| ashes OF Washington on exhibition at
| the Centennial to coin money out OF the
| sacred dust The chiefs Of such party
would not only have betrayed their Sa-
| yior, but made q profit on the cross to
which He was nailed.
/ The National Colored Convention mot
in Nashville yesterday. A leading
darkey OF that city told an 1fmericdl re-
I porter, with reference to the convention.
that the colOred people had been the
tail OF the kite long enough. They now
proposed to be the kite. KnorcUfe
| (Tcnn) Trjbune demo
CENTENNIAL CANDIDATE. - Thomas
i. Bayard, of Delaware, would make u
superb Presidential candidate, cspe-
cially in these centennial times. His
name would recall the brightest days of
chivalry. and in his veins runs fine
strain Of Revolutionary blood. The
Democrats would have the livclieSt
Fourth Of July over Bayard they have
known since Andrew Jackson'S time
~ Y. UerdH IndD.
Our dispatches this morning state that
on yesterday, III the United States Court
ut New Orleans, nine jurymen wero dis
charged because they could not take the
ironclad oath. A few days ago Judge
Woods oyerruled a plea TO the validity
Of an Indictment, based on the fact that
members of the Grand Jury finding the
Indictment could not take the ironclad
oath Until we SEQ his reasons, we can
not, Of course, divine them, but if in
dictmonts found by Grand Juries with
men on them who could not take the
ironclad are valid, then we are at n loss
to see how the Judge can require Grand
Juries to be made up exclusively Of iron
clad oath men.
We presume, as the question has been
raised in New Orleans, that it will come
up elsewhere In Judge Woods circuit,
which includes the State OF Alabama.
In the meantime we sincerely hope that
Congress will do something that will at
the earliest moment relieve us OF the
fate Of having only such jurors in Ala
hama as can take the ironclad oath
Here's and there agood man can be found,
but in tho vast majority of cases jurors
would be ignorant and prejudiced al
most to the point Of brutality. Mobile
1drfrtjscr (Dem.)
Morton is getting his pay now for the
many bloody-shirt speeches, and espe
cially for his efforts to have tho last
Mississippi election investigated The
Mississippi Republicans, in State Con
vention assembled, adopted a resolution
be-slavering him btautologically with
our thanks and our gratitude, and q
full text OF it has just reached him.
Still, talk is cheap. and even factoring
resolutions dom make Presidents It's
delegates that Morton particularly
wants now. Philadephin Times ma
Seeing in Tilden the best representa-
4
tive power that tho Democratic party
can just now offer. the Springfield Re-
publicat believes that "either he or
Thurman, with Trumbull or Kerr or
Lamar for Vice President in one case, |
and John Quincy Adams in the other.
or the two together, if the Ohio Senator
would take the second place, would |
make powerful ticket, and force the |
Republicans to doubtful, if not GER
tainly losing campaign under any
ordinary party candidate. - hilddel-
phia Times IND.
1t is matter for congratulation that
Connecticut has spared us, in this ago
Of public scandals, the disgrace Of what
is known as "a moneyed canvass" No
body expects that an election can be
carried on without spending money.
There was story that Prof SeeIye, Of
Amherst, Mass, was elected to Congress
without any greater expense to himself
than the three cents which he paid out
for a certain postage stamp. But some
body must have spent money for print
ing ballots, posters, etc. and for bring
ing out aged andintirm voters These
needful expenses, together with some
which must be incurred il there are
public meetings, are met with 50 much
in the Connecticut CAMPAIGN.
that there is no probability that money
has been used for the corruption of
voters. -NeoU York Times (Rep.)
Score one for Benjamin +. Butler.
The Senate yesterday voted against the
of the appointment of
Richard I'll. Dana as Minister to Eng
land. 1t was Mr.. Benjamin Il. Buffers
fight against the American people; he
won it; let him have the credit for it.
The nomination Of Mr.. Dana was hailed
the country, as soon as an
bounced, as one Of the best appoint
ments the present Administration had
ever made; an evidence OF returning .
sense; an indication that tho President
himself had at last been brought to
'ecognize and respect the intense long
ng on the part of tho people for bet
5er class OF men in of1ice.-N y Trj- {
,}Oic fIad.)
We presume a majority Of the dele ,
gates will go into the Cincinnati Con |
'ention us friends of Morton, Conkling ,
md Blaine, with the certainty that |
neither Of these candidates will be able i
o command majority. There will be
ound on the spot a powerful current
or Bristow, and after tho first ballot all ,
he loose votes will flow to him. ~ Gin ,,
in'dti Commercial (Rep.)