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

Gne cry is resoundins one loud. swelling cheer,
Oh, bark TO the joyous acclaims
REFORM and FREE TRADE IRE the watchwords we |
hear,
And TILDES and HENDRIcKs the names
ChoruE-Then hurrah for the democrats true.
Hurrah for the democrats true
The Tag that has led us to triumphs be-
Shall guide us to victory anew!
POLITIC1L NOTES.
1t is a source of no little embarrass-
ment to the republicans that Jefferson
Davis is in England, Brick Promeroys
"agin" TiIden, Avery and Mcdonald in
prison, and the Freedmens bank in
chancery.
We defy the Leader and the whole
gang of republican writers in the coun-
try to point to a single instance where,
as public officer, Gov Tilden has not
manfully and nobly upheld the side of
the people against the demands CT
''ringsters' and 'jobbers." - Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The New York Herald entertains
this opinion of northern intelligence
and fairness: Z" This whole southern
question must be treated with the ut
most care and firmness by the demo-
Gratis. Nothing is easier than to arouse
the old war feeling in the north That
is the main hope of the republicans"
e Well, you SET" said a republican
politician to a lazy at Long Branch the
other day, the best evidence of strength
and integrity in our party is its power of
moral recuperation. If body eliminates
its evils it is all right If we find
rogue in the chair of the state, what do
we do Hurl him out. If a public SER
want dishonors his trust, what do we do?
Cast him forth. If a president is incom-
petent, what do we do ~ & Elect him
twice" said the lady.-4lbany Argus
Earnest, manly, hearty and courtly
Thomas A. Hendricks writes a letter
which, in one act, raises the statesman
of the west above the misrepresentation
of the hemolculus of the east Read it
through and then read it again. He
shows even Grant to be better than the
system he is hemmed in by How much
would Hayes, the merely pretty man OF
politics, be uniformed, by that which
has wrought mayhem of character to
the grim and stoIid Brooklyn
Eagle.
.,Goy. kellogg told a New York
Tribune reporter the other day that Mis-
sissippi "men are dropping like autumn
leaves, but very little is heard of it."
By this beautiful figure of speech Kel-
logg further explained that he meant |
that men were being murdered Very
little is heard of il" says kellogg. We
believe Kellogg is right. He himself
has not even heard of it. except through
the New York Times, Washington Re
publican and such papers.
1t can no longer be denied that pres
ident Grant-whether knowingly or To-
norantly does not matter-has elected rs
his intimate and confidential friends cor
rupt and dishonest men, who used his
friendship as cover for frauds upon the
government of the most surprising char
acter; nor can it be disputed that the
president has used his Office to protect
them in their operations, and his power
to punish the government officials who
undertook to bring them to justice.-N
Y. Tribune
The biggest political card yet. The
carpet-baggers of Mississippi and Louis
lana are telling the negroes that Hayesis
black man-one of their own race and
color-who will not only give every ne
gro his forty acres and MULE
but put the bottom rail on top, and keen
1t thar" 1t is said that it takes like
wildfire with the negroes, and anv at
tempt of the democrats to deny the truth
OF the statement, is hooted down bv
them as one of "dem id democratic
hes What country-what suffrage
what party i-Ne'o Haren Register.
President sGrant and his partisan
friends must be made to understand that
the south is in the union, and has eoual
rights with the north; that the govern
ment of the United States, under two
decisions of the supreme court. IS do.
barred from doing the police duty of the
tates; that the time is past when par ii.
san calumnies could be used as a preter,
for quartering troops upon state in
time OF peace and crushing out the popu-
lar will. If his plan of OUTRAGE and
violence continues to develop as il has
lately, the representatives of the neonle
must adopt measures to prevent these
most odious and abominable usurpations
st Louis Times.
"A negro preacher, and editor of the
Missionary Record, fittingly named
Cain, thus threatens the white neonlo
OF South Carolina in one of his editorials
Remember that there are eighty thor
sand black men in this state who CON
bear Winchester rifles, and know how r.
use them, and that there are two HIM
dred thousand women who on, I;o.h4a
torch and use knife, and that there arc
one hundred thousand boys and pir.s
who have not known the lash of white
master. The negro in this country will
not always be docile-he viii NOT slwov.
be restrained by fear-thc rising genera.
tion are as brave and daring as are white
men already that spirit is taking deep
root In the minds of thousands who have
u 'thing to lose in The contest. and who
would esoice in an opportunity to sacri-
nee their lives for their liberty.
DO not think anybody envies Grant
nucn IA these days His presidency is
coming to an end in just such fashion
as was predicted, four years ago, by |
those republicans who found him ont |
before the bulk of the party did. / do |
not see that Wilson's testimony leaves
Grants character any worse than Il was
before, since it does not connect him Nil,