Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03

( TIGeHss Letter on Southern War
4 CIaEa.S-EIis PriIeEded, not hIs real
Views. shown b Letter Ofz;x-Sena-
tor Hunter rofVirgIEia-SVvse set Words
OF White Liners TO .. = soldier. in
SOuIh CarslIaa-The old object Ap-
nt-''GrecnbackerE should Vote
for Tliden..
Before indicating his views in reference
to the naturalization of the disloyalists of
the Southern States for losses and dam
ages sustained by them during the war, it
was prudent that -Tilden should have an
understanding with Southern leaders, so
that the published letter would DO him no
harm, and that their confidence in his will.
ingness to obey their behests would not be
shaken.
If the political leaders in the Southern
States believed that TiIden entertained the
opinions expressed in his late letter to Hew-
! lit. he could not have been nominated at
St. Louis. If these same leaders had the
least idea that Tilden Is sincere in his an
nouncement of non-recognition and oppo-
sition to the payment of these Southern
claims. now in part embodied in pending
bills before Congress, he woaId be repudi-
ated at the polls in every Southern State,
on the 7th of November.
When the slaves were freed and enfran-
chised, and the Southern losses resulting
! from war were incurred, the Fourteenth
Amendment had not been adopted. He
may hereafter say that the North took
slaves and supplies of all kinds, as proper
ty for public use, and that, under the Fifth
Article of the Constitution, which prohibits
the taking of private property for public
use without compensation, the Federal
Government is bound to reimburse the
claimants. This is the view taken By ex-
Senator R. NJ T. Hunter, in his famous
letter published in 1878, and it is South
ern doctrine to-day 1t is the doctrine of
every Southern delegate in the st. Louis
Convention, who voted for the nomination
Of Samuel J. Tilden. Moreover, it is the
real doctrine of Tilden himself.
II it were not for the well understood
private and political record of Samuel J.
Tilden, he might impose his hypOeritical
professions upon the American people, but
with the light before them, they will de-
cline to give credence to his promises so
long delayed, and only published when the
cloud of popular disapprobation is about to
burst over his head and engulph him in a
common deluge with his sinful associates.
We are at loss how to interpret the Ian
guage of Wade Hampton, at Edgefeld, the |
other day:"I would be willing to see the |
United States soldiers at every precinct in
South Carolina;" or that of NJ. C. Butler
at Lexington, when he said, ''The United |
States troops don't intimidate us in Edge
field at all They don't wish to be used |
against us. They sympathise
with Us in our struggle for good govern
ment in South Carolina This does not
look like ''dragooning the South" The
''hellish intimidation Dana, Storey, and /
other reform shriekerS, have so deftly sang, |
pales before the remark of Hampton to his
audience: q was very glad to see the other
day you had welcomed the Q. S. troops"
But in the address of Capt. E. W. Morse,
rebel candidate for Adjutant General, who
said, ''Let Chamberlain proceed with his
tyrannical measures, and we will see if
there is no Brutus for this Cesar" the
cloven hoof protrudes, and the animus is
apparent. Hampton and Butler strove to
cajole the troops with honied words and So
cial amenities; but Morse goads on the
rebels to assassination, if necessary, to at
tain power. The report of Capt. Lloyd of
the 18th Infantry, was not necessary to in
form us that Buffers cavalry, a well drill
ed and organized company, had been raid
ing through the country; that about eight
hundred white men from Georgia and
South Carolina had been engaged in the
riots; that the negroes were completely
cowed, hiding in the woods, afraid to 90 to
work, saying they were afraid of being
shot i'll the cotton fields" Could the max
ed truth, as it has gone to the bar of God
for justice, be shown in its fearful integri-
ty, we had almost written that honorable
men, without regard to section OF party,
would unite in the demand for an execution
Of every man therein engaged, and that
appeals for mercy would be answered by
the EXTREMIST rigor. Butler said, ''U. S.
soldiers have not the kind feeling for the
colored men that we have" Capt. Lloyd
reports to his superiors: 'There was un-
doubted evidence of well-digested plan of
attack, which, if carried ous, would have
resulted in the slaughter of nearly all the
negroes in the place."
A Cincinnati paper says, 'Greenbackers
should all vote for Tilden. There is moth
ing to be hoped for from the Republicans.
The masses can aZ,Cay8 expect
financial relief under Democratic rule"
The masses expected financial relief in
New York when they elected, Just as they
Ire and have been expecting it from him
n Michigan, since he gave them his infa-
nous ''iron money!" But financial relief
,ame only to the creditors, as the sheriff,
n turn, sold out the debtors, and the far
ners and mechanics saw their properties
hange owners, and the holders of stocks
n the iron mines saw their sources of prof
IS close, and their titles 'quietly fold
themselves up and silently steal away to
hat great ''usufruct' whose capacious nav
wallowed railroad and mining stocks,
arms, and mechanics unpaid wages, leav- :
ng the poor white trash to starve or tramp,
mder that Democratic rule" now being
oisted on the nation under the guise of
rec government, reform, and purity of
overnment. Yes! ''The people can always F
xpect financial relief under Democratic
ule" LIFE.
Washington, Oct. 80, 1876.
List of Patents. 81
Issued to Inventors of Ohio, for the week
nding Oct. 31st, 1876, and dated Oct. Nth
S76. Furnished this paper by Cox & Coy So.
citors of Patents Washington. D. c. an
B. Martin, stock cars, East Rockport. S Ge en-
alexander, table slides, Springfield. Carr, :
'eif & Arey, stripping implements. Cincin-
att. E. Cate, butter dishes, Bridgeport
}. Freeze, lamp chimney cleaner. North
.mherst J. Look. breast stran Handlers