New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-06
Especial Correspondence of the Republican ]
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.
WASHINGTON, September /, 1871

Especial Correspondence of the Republican.
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.
WASHINGTON, September l, 1876.
The patriotism and union sympathy of
one Mr.. Talbot, present Democratic candi-
date for Governor Of Maine, were during
the war of such obscure and an altogether
equivocal character that to prove his 10y
atty he has been moved to parade before
the public the record of his horse made in
the early months of the war, and has
thereby loaded down his canvass with such
9 weight Of ridicule as to insure his party's
defeat beyond remedy. In 1861 he was in
vited to contribute from his abundant
means something to aid the quick dispatch
of troops to the front. His response was
Enthusiastically copperhead. "This is a
black Republican war; they may foot the
bills" After lapse of fifteen years, dur
ing which no expression Of qualification at
the subjugatiOn Of treason has been known
to escape from his mouth, he proudly points
to the alleged fact that he gave the servi-
ces of one horse to transport detachment
Of troops to the place of rendezvous. The
conclusiveness of this evidence is somew hat
marred by the rejoinder of his neighbors
that he only consented to the employment
of his horse for this purpose because he had
no use for it himself and this saved the ex-
pense of his keeping.
Evidences multiply showing that the Ku-
klux of the Sonth have determined that
the States of their section shall be carried
cratic papers published south of the Poto-
mac come to this city, openly and defantiy
boasting that the electoral vote Of their re-
spective States will be secured for the
Democratic nominees at every and all haz-
ards, regardless of law or the presence of
United States soldiers. The more indiscreet
Of these pestilent sheets drop the mask be.
hind which they have hitherto sought to
conceal their diabolical purpose; they are
filed to overflowing with menaces toward
white and black Republicans. Were no
other evidence attainsble of their purpose
to override all law and to carry the No
vember election By fraud, intimidation, vio-
lence and bloodshed to the extent necessary
to complete the programme, the recent in
structions of Secretary Cameron would be
amply justified by their gratuitous warnings
furnished by their party press. A failure
to provide against such sanguinary threats
would have been criminal and to the last
degree cowardly.
Democratic efforts for the purpose of in
citing q feeling of hostility between the
President and his probable successor, Gov
ernor Hayes, have, apparently. had the
contrary effect, and strengthened the
friendly sentiments that have always ex-
isted between them. The Presidents in.
vitation to General Hayes to visit
him at Long Branch is regarded
with keen disappointment and many
misgivings, and Democratic investments
in Bluford Wilson is now held to
have been a very aslnine procedure; as by
the whisky prosecution investigation which
grew out of it, the Presidents character
was relieved of every suspicion that an I'M.
scrupulous partisanship had sought to ere.
ate and confirm.
The effective blows that Mr.. Blaine is
dealing the obstructive Democracy in
Maine is another source of disquiet and
unhappiness. Ever since the Cincinnati
Convention his disatfection has been conf
IDENTIFY affirmed, and was counted as one of
the most reliable indications of their sue
cess. 1t is hardly known yet how the nom
ination of the great decliner in New York
is received by the resident managers OF the
campaign left over from the debris of the
ex.Confederste Congress; but with most
people it must appear rather ominous fol
defeat to his party, even if every other in
dication pointed in another direction.
No campa ign, not even that of 1860, has
ever been conducted with more enthusiasm
on the part of the Republicans than the
present one in those States where active
work has been undertaken, and notwith
standing the strict impartislity displayed
by the rebel copperhead Democracy in theil
cheers for the traitor Davis and the re-
former Tilden, the leaders despair of ex
Treating their reform candidate from the
trap OF his own sitting. The rank and file
look hopelessly to the managers and the
managers in turn cast beseeching glancet
toward their great captain, but with feet
and hands bound, borne down with the
weight of his war record, his Tammany as
sociatee, ''usufruct," Credit Mobilier, Michi
gan shin plasters, wrecked railroads, in
come taxes and other exposures "toc
numerous to mention, his canvass threatens
to break down before fairly underway.
President Grants confirmation of ex-At
torney General Williams statement, con
tradioting Bluford Wilson's sensational tes
timony relative to Mrs. Williams agency in
the matter of the anonymous letters writ
ten to the Presidents wife and the wives o.
some of the Cabinet ministers, aggravates
the unpleasant light in which the ex-solici
tor placed himself in his testimony before
the committee of investigation relative to
the whisky prosecutions.
There is nothing new of 10 cal interest, a!
everything is overshadowed by the absorb
ing interest felt in the progress of the cam
paign. A wall of distress comes up from
the government departments, from the de.
cspitated clerk or other employe. A large
number of females, many of them will
helpless families, have already been dis
charged, and more are to follow.
MAXWELL.
The Pointe Coupee Judicial Convention
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