National Republican., 1876-08-17
a good robust negro before the war. On
thousand dollars was the average price.

good robust negro before the war. One
thousand dollars was the average price.
We should all bear with this weather as best
we can. To take DR.. Kane's "Arctic Explora-
tions" and sit down meath the shade of an ice
house to read is very plausible way of relief,
but never sleep until eight o'clock in the morn
ing, with your feet hanging out of the cham
ber-window, as some Of the West End fe-
males do.
Since his mountebsnk and buffoon display
in the House, Cox has gone to meet Proctor
Knott in the retreat coincidence, where they
will soon be accompanied by Tarbox. What
little time the devil has to spare away from
Sam Randall and his ex- Confederate mob will
be devoted to this trio in the hour of their
afiiction, in the cave of gloom. -
On last Saturday, at Edgefeld, South Caro-
lima, one T. j. Mackey, who has been palming
himself upon the Republicans of that State as
a reliable party man, was SO much overawed
by the White Line demonstration that he came
out in his true color and made a "straight-
out" Ku-Klux speech. This is significant, as
advisers and supporters in his various efforts
to throttle the Republican party in that un-
happy State.
The rumor Yesterday was made widespread,
and generally believed, that Speaker Kerr was
dead. The report gained ground SO rapidly and
seemed of such positive character that our
reporter, in good faith, incorporated it in our
Department report and it was published yes
terday morning. To-day we are glad to deny
the truthiulness of the report. The Speaker is
lying very dangerously i'll, but his warm friends
hope against fatal result. Indeed, the coun-
try at large hope earnestly for the recovery of
this able statesman and Christian gentleman.
He has honored his State and his country with
valuable and pure services for over decade
of years, and perhaps there is no other man in
political life who can claim as many devoted
personal friends as can he. We hope that he
may yet be preserved to the country.
Who are for Tilden and Hendricks! Ben
Hill is the man who says Abraham Lincoln
is responsible for the atrocities of Anderson
vile. Lucius Quintius Curtis Lamar is ! the
man whose credentials as Senator of the UNI
ltu SldlS5 dIS SStAiCu WIN Wv UlVvN vi
dered negroes State Rights Tucker is ! the
man who says "this is not nation" Every
ex-Confederate in Congress is, and they are or
ganizing system of fraud and murder to Sc
cure the election of the ticket. The worst
wards, tie worst cities, and the worst States
are for Tilden and Hendricks. The Hamburg
murderers are for them; the haters of liberty
favor them; the men who are constantly pull
ing down the Stars and Stripes are working
for them; the vile assassins of colored men,
women and children are toiling for them; the
masked Wretches who ride into the negro huts
of the nth and slaughter the inmates old
and your are laboring for them; the thugs
and offscul Of the dark places in New York,
where the rnosphere of crime and iniquity is
so thick as 10 Oe cut with knife, are getting
ready to repeat for them; repudiators are for
them; the e'.tirs ex-rebel army are organizing
in their inteTe t, and the old band of copper
heads in the North are raising heaven and
earth TO elect them. These are the boys who
fight NIT Tilden.
Yesterday will be a memorable day in his
tory. 1t will live in history as the "Retreat of
the ex-Confeds from the National Capitol"
For four years they attempted to take the
Capital by force, but through the God who
shields both liberty and Union they were de-
feated. In 1874, on one of those mysterious
tides which sometimes sweep over the body
polite and revolutionize for a while the govern
ment Of nation, these same men rode into
power. On the 1st of December, 1875, they
entered The National Capital and pitched their
tents in the council chambers of the nation.
There were seventy-one ex-Confsdsrates = =. - LAS 20
Army, ilesh - IN tine battie-felds of the great
civil war, sna ley were commanded BY rebel
Generals Hill, Lamar, Gordon and Guerrilla
Blackburn. For eight months they have
prosecuted relentless war against the actual
interests Of the Government. Deyoting all
their attention to prosecuting Union soldiers
in offices of political trust, they have in
measure vented their spleen against the men
who made them furl their reasonable banners
on many battlefield. They have crippled
the administration of national affairs by
system OF parsimoniousness which is a disgrace
to the country. They have crowded the docu-
ment-rooms with claims in the interest of dis
loyal claimants. They have robbed forty
seven Union soldiers of their positions, and
have put ex-rebel soldiers in their stead. In
short, they have made quite as desperate
fight against the Union inside of it as they
made against it at Bull Run and in the wilder
ness. But yesterday they retreatei, not, how
ever, until they had accomplished all the
injury to the Government that was in their
power. Napoleon when he retreated from
Moscow burned the city. The ex-Contederates
saved the National Capital with the expecta-
tion of occupying it more permanently in the
future. Napoleon left thousands of dead men
in the wake Of his retreat and thousands of
others to perish in the snow drifts on the ice
bound rivers of Muskovia. The ex-Confed-
crates have left over one hundred ex-rebels
as doorkeepers and clerks in the House, hun
dreds Of rebel claims on the files of the docu-
ment-rooms, and our Government crippled in
its various departments. This retreat is wei
coined by the country, and next November the
loyal people of the land will cause the politi-
cal places which know them now to know
them no more forever.
PROCTOR KNOTT.
Pat Donan's Opinion of Him.
From the Danville (va.) News.I