The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-04-27
Our WASHINGTON LITTER.

Washington, d. G. April 22d, 1876.
It az pears to be The impression here
chat I'll Democrats have determined to
prolo lg the session so that any candidate
nominated at Cincinnati may be subject
Ell to the most rigid scrutiny with the
desperate hope of finding some irregu-
larity III his public or private life that
being ventilated few weeks before
the election, will so discre lit the Re
publican party with the people that they
may be able TO take advantage of the
apathy and confusion which the expose
would produce and steal into power be-
fore there was time to concert any effec
tive measures to avert such a national
calamity. There is no question bntthat
the leaders of that rebel Copperhead
league, called The Democratic party sec
retiy are making the most strenuous eff
forts TO neutralize the determined effects
that investigation has incidentally had.
on the prominent men of that party.
Their desperation is all themore savage
from their long season of abstinence from
public office and plumber. A cores
pondent of the New York Times writing
from Columbia, s. c., under date OF
April 15, 1876, of the Presidential cleo
ton says. eff the Democrats are sue
cessful, the Republican party of the
cotton states must die out forever, Tor by
one means or another the negro voters
would be prevented from exercising the
rights of citizenship which were assured
them by the results of the war; and
their white leaders would be o0hg-
ed to leave the country and seek homes
elsewhere J = No fair
minded observer who traveles through
this part of the country can deny that
the cold residents" the native whites
of South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana are themselves to blame
for many of the burdens by which they
are now oppressed. They are arrogant
and cverbearing; they are eaten up
with false pride and Incidence, and
they openly boast that if they elect their
President Hext fall, they VIII convert the
Radicals or drive them out Of the coun-
try. The Republicans, white and black,
are fully aware Of the feeling of hostility
With which they are regarded. They
know that only under Republican adj
ministration offhe National Government
can they hope for political existence, and
they are now ready to sacrifice every
personal preference to attain that end.
These views have been expressed to me
by respectable and transworthy gentle
men here and in other states. That
they are accurate, know from my own
knowledge"
Lyon, the man whose testimony was
relied upon to slaughter eX-minister
Schenck has turned out very poor in
vestment. No one apparently, is able
or willing to say one word favorable to
his character as g man. The time Of
Congress is mostly devoted to the Bel
KNAPP impeachment trial and discussing
appropriation bills. Since the passage
of the River and Harbor appropriation
swindle it is resting from the laborious
efforts that were necessary to compass
that indignity. The Hallet Kilboarn
case Is still before the courts and attracts
much attention because OF the knotty
legal points involved. Much dissatisfac-
ton is resulting from the niggardiy ac-
ton relative to the reduction Of fares to
Philadelphia during the Centennial and
the voracious disposition manifested
thus early 10y the hotel keepers, and
hash-house proprietors in that favored
town promises to deter many people Of
moderate means from attending the big
show. who would have otherwise atten-
ded and contributed their share to MAX
ing it q success.
MAXWELL.