The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-08-25

have forsaken him when Babcock was
indicted at St. Louis, and he took meas
ures that, in an English king, would
have led 20 his dethronement.-ISt Louis
Republican Letter.
We are sorry the president should
find it necessary to have troops in the
south, and we are sorry to see the gov
ernor of South Carolina in the position
of asking for more. The country is SEN
sitive on this question of federal military
Intervention in the affairs of a state.
Governor Chamberlain should have OK
hausted his own remedies before seeking
the president. The protection of the
general government is we'll enough as a
last resort. 1t should neither be LIGHTLY
asked nor lightly given. Our southern
states have been so handled in the mast
few years that the governors run at the
first pretense to the president. 1t is a
vicious habit, subversive of the indie
pendence and pride of state. The gov
ernor of South Carolina should frst ex-
haust the resources of his commonwealth
before he goes whining TO Washing
ton.-Netc York Herald
A correspondent of the New York
Herald writes from Columbus, South
Carolina, that the county government Of
Edgeield, in which county Hamburg Is
situated, has been in the hands of the
negroes ever since 1868. 1t was recently
characterized in an official report nlasss
by judge Mackey, a republican circuit
Judge, rs "a blot upon civilization. 1t
has had four county treasures, each OF
whom has been a defaulter. Over one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars has
been stolen outright, and as much more
under thin devices Had it had reason
able decent treatment at the hands OF
republican rulers, the peaceful, law
abiding whites, of which it has lair
proportion, would have been able to
check the turbulent and wicked. The
only turbulent counties in the state
have suffered in the same way. The
civil power is not respected because it is
not respectable.
An educated colored woman, Mrs. ).
A. Thompson, delivered a lecture in
Cincinnati, the other night, upon the
condition of the colored people of the
south. She came to Tennessee some ten
years ago, and had good opportunities
for observing. "Of outrages committed
upon the colored people of the south, she
spoke with proper resentment, but re-
marked that these crimes were the work
of only a portion of the white population.
There were two classes of southern
whites the bourbons and the eonserv-
atives. The latter of these accepted the
results of the war and were glad that
slavery was abolished. Among them
less prejudice was to be found than even
in the north. They were inclined tC
allow the African every privilege which
he would ask and even to encourage
him in self-improvement, especially il
the mechanic arts. Under the edu.
eating influences which had been in
action throughout the south, the freed
men had made marvellous advances. D
When at the conclusion of her lecture g
motion of thanks was offered, a white
man interrupted the motion to say that
he chad been confederate soldier and
a STAKEHOLDER, and to express his indi
vidual gratitude to the speaker for hel
candid and truthful utterances." The
Hayes people had better suppress Mrs
Thompson.
There are two elements in the coun-
try that cannot afford to train with with
Hayes and Wheeler. They comprise the
commercial and the labor element
Commerce and trade will only flourish a.
the southern states grow rich. They
will then become what they once were
the best customers of northern man,
ufacturers and merchants. Get
commerce and trade moving, and
the willing hands of labor need never
be idle. Let the laboring man of the
north, he who represents skilled or un
skilled labor, see to it that the radical
hypocrites who draw the color line in
this country, simply because they want
power, are not allowed to prostitute the
energies of great government to such 8
purpose. Morton and his disreputable
gang are striving to keep up new form
of slavery in this country. Like the
Chinese companies of the Pacific coast
they assert proprietorship over theil
chattels. Thousands of the negroes in
the south would vote a milk ticket a:
readily as anything else, and it is this ig
norance which makes them the Pliable
tools of the radical pensioners and carpet
baggers and beggars in the south.-Chi
cage Courier.
When the annals of this republic
proclaim the disgrace and censure Of
ice-president late speaker of the
house of representatives marketing his
ruling as presiding officer; three sena-
tors profting secretly by their votes as
lawmakers; five chairmen of the lead
ing committee of the late house of repre-.
sentatives exposed in jobbery; a late
secretary of the treasury forcing balances
in the public accounts; late attorney
general Incorporating public funds
a secretary of the navy enriched or en-
riching friends by per centage levied of
the profits of contractors with his depart
ment; an ambassador to England con-
cerned in dishonorable speculation the
presidents private secretary barely es-
| Gaping conviction, upon trial, for guilty.
completely in frauds upon the revenue
a secretary of war impeached for high
crimes and confessed misdemeanors the
demonstration is complete that the first
step must be the public choice of honest
men from another party lest the disease
of one political organization upset the
whole body polite, and thereby making
no change OF men or party, we can get no
change of measures and no reform All
these abuses, wrongs and crimes. tbe pro-
duct of sixteen years of ascendencv of
the republican party, create necessity
for reform confessed by the renublicans
themselves. But their reformers are
voted down in convention and displaced
from the cabinet. The party's mass of