The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-24
STROUDsBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. AUGUST "a 1876

ton and the Importance of adoption practi-
| cal measures looking to that result But
what has been done was honestly intended
to accomplish the great purpose and when
the St. Louis Convention and Tilden and
Hendricks pretend to be greatly in earnest
about specie payments, and denounce the
Republican party for not having brought
them about before, and demand the repeal
of the Resumption act because it is an OBJ
stacle IN the way of resumption, and then
fail utterly to point out any method of re-
sumption, and talk only in empty platitudes
about resuming 'by public economies, .
''wise finance and ''of1icial retrenchment, -
we realize how utterly heartless, insincere
aud ignorant they are about the whole busi-
ness.
SOUTHERN OUTRAGES.
The prosperity of the country depends
upon the continued administration of the
government upon the true and tried princi-
pies of the Republican party. What has
been done successfully in some of the
Southern States they except to be done tn
all. Murder thus becomes a fixed politi-
cal element in the Democratic problem
Should they carry these States it will be
by 4 bloody revolution which no more de-
serves the name of election than the mur-
der of the Christians by the Turks Five,
ten or twenty negroes are killed, and some
times one white man is the common report,
but every announcement is followed by the
stereotyped lie that negroes began the at
tack, and the whites were acting in self de
fense. The murder few DAYS since of
ten negroes in Hamburg, South Carolina,
under circumstances Of extraordinary afro
city is but the opening Of the Tilden cam
paign in that State. Itis openly proclaimed
that the Republican majority of 200 in
South Carolina is to be overcome and the
State carried for Tilden and this can be
done only by frightening the colorcd men
from the polls or compelling them by force
to vote the Democratic ticket. 1t Missis-
sippi, since reconstruction in 1869 the
average Republican majority has been over
10000. In 1872 Grant carried it by b :
087 votes. Last year, after a campain of
horrors, the Democracy carried it by ma
jority Of over 10000, and so complete and
abject was the terror that in the county of
Yazoo, there the Republicans had regis
tered vote of ,427, they polled but seven
votes, and these were permitted only that
it might be said that Republicans could
vote. General Sheridan, while in command
in New Orleans, collected with great labor
the evidence Of violence in the State of
Louisiana alone for political purposes from
1866 to 1871, and reported to the investi-
eating committee appointed by the House
of ofRepresentatives as follows Killed, 2,141;
wounded, 2,115; total, 1886. If there is
anything more odious than these crimes, it
is that reeking hypocrisy which affects to
stand aghast at fraud, while attempting to
cast its mantle of concealment and protec-
ton over deeds to the most dreadful and
Infamous. x < :
The Republican party have chosen as
standard-beare Messrs. Hayes and
Wheeler They are able and pure men,
and have always been on the right side
of the great questions of the day. Coy.
Hayes was a brave soldier who commanded
with distinction, and fell upon the field
severely wounded. His name has long
been inscribed upon the roll Of heroes who
offered their lives that their country might
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