The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-12


pay the national debt This would at once repudats
the debt and destroy the greenbacks and XIII OIL TWO OF
the hated agencies In putting down the reoeinon.
Hendricks accepted this idea and made his race upon
il for Governor in 1885, will appear BY his speech IN
Convention on the 9Th Of January OF thai year IN
1870 Chief Justice Chase delivered the opinion OF ma
jority OF the supreme Court OF the United States nas
tn legal tender feature OF the greenbacKs was unoo
stitutionaL The democracy again bobbed aro"ho Ano
hailed the decision with delight The next year ma,
ority OF the Court reversed this decision ana
the democracy with one accord charged 1rant
with having packed the Court TO sustain an hiamou s
war measure Alter that they again bobbed around
and said that greenbacks we're the best currency '
country had that all banks ought to be aooisneo
and the government alone furnish money 10 tue
people To cap the climax OF their shutting ana see
saving this subject at the late ST. Louis CohVen'ou
they adopted the following resolution =.
We denounce the failure for all these eleven years o
peace TO make good the promise OF the legal ~ ,h
people and the Of which is disregard OIL Inc
plighted faith OF the nation.
After thus arraigning tho republican party for nav
ing failed specie In the next resoiu
ton they demand the repeal OF the act providns LOT
the resumption OF specie payments on the is' ., yam
the way OF resumption The necessary meaning Of inns
resolution that the act put of resumption, and but
course a party talking thus boldly must have some
or remedy to propose by which the govern
at once redeem the greenDacks In coin &C
cording TO promise. But the next resolution shows
that only Snug the joiner. and not the hon. who
roaring aud reveals the silly hypocrisy OF all that Is
by declaring that specie payments be brought
about only by proper economies, wise finance and OH
cal rctrcnchment; or, IN other words, that nothing
be and the whole subject should be drop ed
The TACT the first Two resolutions intended Tor
the East aud to show that the democracy are deicr
mined have specie payments at once, and the third
resolution Tor the West, and TO show that the 'emoc-
racy do no, int nd to have specie payments al all.
siAUGHrERs ~ TIIE SOUTH.
Five ten twenty negroes are killed and sometimes
one white man is the common report, but every an.
nounccment followed by the stercotyped lie that the
negroes began the attack and the WHITES we're acting
sell. defence The negroes, poor unframed, almost
unarmcd and unsklcd IN the use OF weapons, are
Always represented rs precipitatns themselves upon
their wellarmed, skiu and intrepid enemies and
procuring themselves to be shot for other reason
than 10 make little political capital Tor their Northern
friends The murder few days since OF ten negroes
at Hamburg, : G under CIRCUMSTANCES OF extraord
nary atrocy is but the opening OF the idcn campaign
that State IL was the beginning OF the work Of IN
tmidation "A terrible blow 10 strike terror into the
hearts OF the colored people Upon very mean and
scsndalous prctcxt about 90 whlte men suddenly
assembled IN this little town, Inhabited al
most exclusively by colored people, perpa.
tratcd the foul murders, sen. the women and
children tho woods In deadly fright anu searched
and sacked their humble homes. Had bafd OF Sioux
Indians suddenly bounced upon pcaccabc white VII
lage and inflicted such horrors the cry Tor extermina
ton would rave gone up throughout the land. IL IS
openly proclaimed that the republican majority OF
80, 900 in south Carolira IS TO he overcome and the
State carried for rden; and This Can be- done only by
rghten ~ colorcd men from The polls or compelling
them by force or fraud TO vote The democratic ticket
In MISSISSIPPI, since reconstruction IN 1862 the
average republican majority has been over 10000 In
1872 Irant carried II by 1851 votes. Last year, alter
n campaign horrors, the democracy carried II by a
majority over 40 900, complete and ablcct
the that IN the county vi Yazoo, where the
pubicns had registered vote OF 427 they polled but
votes aud these were permitted only that II might
he SAID that republicans could vote The White Lea.ucrs
were organized INTO military companies In every
county well armed, and marched up and down the
country with threatening demonstrations Murders,
whippings and every torn OF violence were OF daily
occurrence, and prominent republicans, white and
black were noihcd 10 leave their homes on pam Of
DEATH rhe result was hat might have been antic-
pacd-a bloody. lawless. wicked REVOLUTIONARY which
q large majority overwhelmed by an armed and
numerous minority The nassacres at Hamburg,
Vicksburg, Clinton, Couchnta. ,oIIax. Red River Me-
chanics Institute and at hundreds OF other places that
might named all of the same character, .or the
political purpose, and generally attempted
DO excused by the same infamous and outrageous false
hoods.
General Sheridan, while in command in New Or
leans collected with great labor the evidence of vio
lence IN the State of Louisiana alone for political
purposes from 1866 to 1874 and report to the hvcs
eating committee appointed by the House OF Reprcscn
tatives, As follows-
Killed IA
Wounded. 2,ll5
Total T. $50
This Is greater number than fell at the battle of
Bull Run. and with another difference, that in that
battle the slaughter not all one side. This ter
rblc record. embracing a larger number OF victims
than have fallen by tho tomahawk and scalp ng knife
of the indians in twenty Years is to be shouted out OF
sight by cries OF ''bloody Shirt ''carpc- baqger,"
"scalawag." and all the slang whangcry OF
brutal backgunrdism. and as tho Indians mutate the
bodies OF their slain these men mutate the memories
of their victims by covering them with charges OF
species OF crime That these men, their aiders and
The Modocs is proposition too PLAIN for argument
and Will not be den ed by any good hearted aud vel
Informed man. In the South the effective arguments
used against the republican party are the shotgun,
vover aud knife, and in the North the charge OF
rupton and the cry Of reform. The nrst set of argu
mcnts is short and murderous; the second set false
and hypocritical and both used ndiscriminatcly
by the party the location the de-
mand.
The approaching contest in Indiana will be watched
with the deepest interest by the whole country Ind
OF the three States voting in October and
the result Will exercise powerful influence upon the
elections November In this point Of view the i'm
portance Of success hardly be ove.rstimatcd,
and excrtion ought 10 be spared legitimate
triumph. The ticket presented by the republican
party is a good one and deserves tho confidence and
support all General Harris, our candidate for Gov
ernor, needs introduction commentator in this
community. His high character as man. his dis.
tingulshed services soldier the field hts
recognized ability lawyer and his
great eloqucncc public speaker quail
lily him in the highest degree to lead the
republican party to victory IN this great struggle
democratic victory in October means triumph of The
Confederate democracy throughout the nation in No
vcmber. the subsection OF the loyal element Of the
North to the rebel element of the SOUTH and tho In
stsliaton at the national capital OF the very spirit and
incarnation Of the rebellion.