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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-16
THE WEEKLY SUN.
l776 NEW YORK, 1876

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T1HIS FINE AND THOROUGH BRED
l. Stallion will stand and make h g
Spring season of 1875, in Alexandria, La,
at the Excelsior Stable.
PEDtGRE.
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ard. Fifth dam Lucy Clarke by Ogies'
Oscar. Sixth dam by Imported Knowlsby.
; Seventh dam by Imported DiOmed.
-IBruce's Stud Book 1873.
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,4 TERMS.
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Celebration fol the Centennial Year

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oltSGH ,ScdES SluCo Guo pCdCe, Has con .
| sumed 4, 500 millions dollars, and yet
could not afford to give the people a
sound and staple currency. Two and
| half per cent. on the expenditures
| of these eleven years, or even less,
coin needful to resumption.
RELIEF TO BUSINESS DISTRESS
The distress now felt by the people
in all their business and industries.
| though it has its principal cause in the
| enormous waste of capital occasioned
by tn ! false policies of our government
has been greatly aggravated by the
mismanagemento of the currency. Un-
certainty is the prolific parent of mis-
chiefs in all business. Never we're it's
evils more felt than now. Men do
nothing, because they are unable to
make any calculations on which they
can safely rely. They undertake moth
ing, because they fear a loss in every
thing they would attempt. They stop
and wait. The merchant dares rot
buy for the future consumption of his
customers. The manufacturer dares
not make fabrics which may not refund
his outlay. lie shuts his factory and
discharges his wofkmen. Capitalists
cannot lend on security they consider
safe, and their funds lie almost with
out interest. Men of enterprise who
have credit or securities TO pledge, will
not borrow. Consumption has fallen
below the natural limits of. a reasona-
BILE economy. Prices of many things
are under their range in frugal, specie
paying times before the civil war.
Vast masses of currency lie in the
banks unused. A year and half ago
the legal tenders were at their largest
volume, and the twelve millions since
retired have been replaced by fresh
issues of fifteen millions Of bank notes.
In the meantime the banks have been
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-11
\ RADICAL KEMEDY-mOISE CT
VII RIGHTS.

Senator Boutwell,, of Massachusetts,
the Chairman of the Senate Commit~
tee appointed to investigate matters
in Mississippi, reported on Monday
last that the Democrats had gained
possession of the government of that
State by force and fraud, and proposed
as a remedy to prevent Radicals from
losing power, "to remand the State to
a Territorial condition, and through n
system of public education and kin
dred means of improvement change the
ideas of the inhabitants and recon-
struct the government upon Repub-
lican basis"
Precisely what sort Of system of
public education Mr.. Boutwell, thinks
is best adapted for changing the ideas
of n people we already know. Two
years ago he deliberately put upon
record the declaration that the per-
petuity of Republican institutions
depended upon destroying all distinc>
tions and prejudioes arising from race
negro children side by side in the same
school rooms. This is what he means
by remanding Il state to a territorial
condition and changing the ideas of
it's people by system of public edu-
cation. Upon the floor of the United
States Senate in 1874, Mr.. Boutwell,
said:
"And therefore l say, if it were pos
sibIe. rs in the large cities it is possi-
BILE TO establish separate schools for
black children and for white children,
it is in the highest degree inexpedi-
ent to either establish or tolerate such
schools The theory of human equali-
ty cannot be taught in families taking
into account the different conditions
of the different members of the parties
comprising human society, but in the
public school where children of all
classes and conditions are brought to-
gether, the doctrine of human equality
can be taught, and it is the chief
means of securing the perpet1lity of
republican institutions. And mas.
much as we have in this country four
million colored people, [ assume that
it is public duty that they and the
white people of the country with
whom they are to be associated in po-
lltical and public affairs, shall be as
simulated and made one in the fundas
mental idea ofhuman equality. There
fore, were it possible to establish dis
trict schools, 1 am against it as mat;
ter of public policy"
We see now what we have to ex-
pect if the Radical party once more
gets control of Congress. Democratic
States will be remanded to a terri-
torial condition and white children
and negro children sent to the same
schools until the ideas of our people
shall be SO changed that whites and
blacks will no longer recognize any
distinction growing out of race or
color. But this Internal condition of
affairs cannot be brought about SO
long as we have a Democratic House
of Representatives. fact that it is
we'll to remember.
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-11
GOVERNOR TILDEN'S LETTER OF
ACCEPTANCE.
ALBANY, July 31st. 1876.


GENTLEAIEN:-Whe I had the honor
to receive n personal delivery of your
letter on behalf of the Democratic
National Convention, held on the 2Sth
of June, at st. Louis, advising me of
my nomination as the candidate of the
constituency represented by that body
for the Office of President of the United
States, answered that. at my earliest
convenience, and in conformity with
usage, I would prepare and transmit
to you a formal acceptance. I now
avail myself of the first interval
in unavoidable occupations to fulfill
that engagement.
The Convention, before making it's
nominations. adopted o Declaration of
Principles, which, as a whole, seems to
me a wise exposition of the necessities
of our country, and of the reforms
needed to bring back the government
to its true functions, to restore purity
of administration and to renew the
prosperity of the people. But some
of these reforms are 80 urgent that
they claim more than passing ap>
proval.
REFORM IN PUBLIC EXPENSE.
The necessity of reform in the scale
of public expense-Federal, State and
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-11
GOV. HENDRICKS LETTER OF AC.
CEPTANCE.
INDIANAPOLIS, July "a, 1876

INDIANAPOLIS, July "a, 1876.
GENTLEMEN have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your com>
munication, in which you have formally
notified me of my nomination by the
National Democratic Convention at
st. Louis, as their candidate for the
Office of Vice President of the United
States. It is a nomination which /
had neither expected nor desired; and
yet L recognize and appreciate the
high honor done me by the Conven-
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School Of Law and Equity.
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Lexington, Virginia.
SESSION OF I@T6-97'
FACULTY


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, Common and Statute Law, and Equity
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of History and Science OF Law. p.of Mer-
j. RANDOLPH TUCKER, LII. u. 1Tr"retitu-
camille Law, Conflict OF Laws, ana oo''''
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Court OF Appeals of Va,) Lecturer y"
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Court of Appeals of va , Lecturer ."
HON. vii LAM MoLAUGHLlN. (JppIuasctice
Circuit Court of Vs.,( Lecturer rnu;tv' Oh
Pleading in Courts of Law and EquIj I.joe Of
HON. HUGH W. SHEFFEY, Late iyiS1s S9T1sIa and
circuit Court OF Va.,j LIE, turer On "i''e
Probate Practice. oc.urer on
BOI1VAR CHRISTIAN, ESQ, ..a Lee
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Thomas j. Jarvis,
OF PITT.
For Secretary of State:
JOSEPH A. EN4ELHARD,
OF Now Hanover.
For Attorney General:
THOMAS S. KENAN,
OF Wilson.
For Treasurer:
J. NJ. WORTH,
OF Randolph.
For Auditor:
SAMUEL L. LOVE,
OF Haywood.
For Supt. of Public instruction:
J. C. SCARBOROUGH,
OF Johnston.
Presidential Electors for the
State at Large.
DANIEL G. FOWLE, OF Wake.
J. M. LEACH, OF Davidson.
District Electors.
2d District -IuIIN f. WOOfEN, of Lenoir.s
Sd .INO. -. STANFORD, of Duplin
4fI r. II. BlJSREE, of Wake
5th +. q. ROBBINS, OF Davidson.s
9Th II. Il. WARING, of Mecklenburg
9TH W. B. GLENN, OF Yadkin.
EDsk CONG RESS.
THIRD DISTRICT:
ALFRED NJ. WADDELL,
OF New Hanover.
FOURTH DISTRICT:
JOSEPH ]. DAVIS,
OF Franklin
FIFTH DISTRICT:
ALFRED M. SCALES,
OF Rockingham.
SIXTP DISTRICT:
WALTER l.. STEELE,
OF Richmond.
SEVENTH DISTRICT:
WILLIAM nj. ROBBINS,
OF 1redell
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-11
OUR INDUSTRIES.


With the Industries of the people
there have been frequent interferences.
Our platform truly says that many in
dustries have been impoverished to
subsidiz,o few. Our commerce has
been degraded to an inferior position
| on the high seas; manufactures have
been diminished; agriculture has been
| embarrassed, and the distress of the
industrial classes demands that these
things shall be reformed.
The burdens of the people must also
be lightened by great change in our
system of public expenses. The profit
gate expenditures which increased
taxation from five dollars per capita in
1860 to eighteen dollars in 1870 tells
it's own story of our need of fiscal
reform. ''
Our treaties with foreign powers
should also be revised and amended,
in SO far as they leave citizens of for
eign birth in any particular less secure
in any country on earth than they
would be if they had been born on our
own soil; and the ubiquitous coolie
system which, through the agency of
wealthy companies. imports Chinese
bondsmen, and establishes species of
slavery, and interferes with the just
rewards of labor on our Pacific coast,
should be utterly abolished.
In the reform of our civil service, I
most heartily endorse that section of
the platform which declares that the
civil service ought not to be 'subject
to change at every election" and that
it ought not to be made ''the brief re-
Wilmington journal., 1876-08-11
BANK NOTE RESUMPTION

Resumption Of specie payments by
the Government of the United States
on its legal tender notes would estab-
lish specie payments by all the banks
on all their notes. The official state-
ment, made on the 18th of May, shows
that the amount of the bank notes was
800 millions, less 20 millions held by