New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-05
Especial Correspondence of the Republican ]
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.

Especial Correspondence Of the Republican,
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.
WASHINGTON. August 30, 1876.
1t may not be uninreresting to Demo
Gratis to learn that President Grant has in
vited Governor Hayes to make him visit
at Long Branch. am quite sure that such
an announcement will be q surprise to the
thousands of the rank and file of that party.
who have been purposely deceived by their
party organs into the belief that the Presi-
dent has assumed An attitude of bitter hos
tility to the nominee Of the Cincinnati con-
venti0n, because of his views contained in
his letter of acceptance relative to one term
for the incumbent of the presidential chair.
As part of the Confederate-C -Copperhead
programme OF the present campaign no op-
portunity has been neglected to confirm the
belief that the President cherished the most
bitter feelings of enmity, not only against
General Hayes, but against every lndivid-
usl member of the Republican party who
has honestly differed with him upon the ex-
pediency of the policy adopted by the ad-
ministration in any given matter OF current
national interest. The efforts made to pro-
duce the impression is proof that the wish
was father to the thought. But it lie writ.
ten that the hopes of the wicked shall per-
ish; and the evide noes of Republican unity,
reaching this point from every section of
the country; the warm espousal of
Governor Hayes from the first by Gen.
eral Grant among them; the enthu.
siastic devotion of the intelligent masses
to the cause Of universal liberty, progress
and equality, as they march forward in
solid column to an overwhelming assault
upon q common enemy, is q welcome as.
surance that all their dark lantern plot
tings, with their shotgun policy, will bring
them an ignominious defeat, and that all
the fears and anxieties of patriots since the
partial restoration of the rebel Democracy
in 1874, will be swallowed up in Q Union
victory that will stand, in point of import
anoe, beside that of Appomsttox in April,
1865. The tone of the intelligence from
every quarter all .justifies such conclusion
The indiscreet followers of Tilden in the
West emphasize the significance of his can
didaoy by alternate shouts for him and JEFF
Davis. If the late war is to be fought over
in this campaign, the House of Representa-.
tives, lately adjourned, and the Ku-Klux
leaders of the Democracy, have themselves
to thank for it.
Another assurance, quite as startling and
discouraging to abettors of the ''reformer"
may be as positively given, to the effect
that any assistance to free, fair election
that can be given by the War Department,
will not be withheld. No acceptance of the
$500 forfeit for every Democrat deferred
from depositing his ballot by the presence
of United States soldiers at the polls have
been received up to date, Notwithstanding
the doleful howls provoked by the late
order of Secretary Cameron to General
Sherman.
The revelations of the past six months,
in connection with the every day uttersnces
of the Southern Democratic press, so signi-
ficant and unmistakable that "all who run
may read, have deprived the cry of "bloody
shirt" and outrage mill' of all their terrors,
and have convinced many of the most timid
and halting Republicans of the absolute
need Of the interposition of the government
to preserve q semblance of republican
form of government in many of the late
insurrectionary States. 1t is the old, old
contest between light and darkness; good
and evil freedom and slavery, superstition
<bo
mind from the malignant effects of which
craft and priestcraft upon the other; in
short, it is the life and death struggle that
has come down to this centennial year of
American independence through all the
ages since the Lord of Hosts laid the fOun'
dations of the universe, and is to go on with
gradually decreasing violence from the ex-
haustion Of the one and the triumph of the
other at the dawning of the mellennisl era.
Reports received from the several States,
of the crops already harvested, and those
still growing, gladden. the heart, because Of
the unusually abundant yield of all the
products of the husbandman's industry.
Every industrial interest is feeling the
quickening influence, and the outlook is
more encouraging than for many months
past.
Onr city continues point of attraction
| to thousands of centennial visitors, on theil
way to or from the magicians' fair at Phil
adelphia. We learn that the attendance or
Saturday, half fare day, was over O,0OO
which seems to definitely settle the wisdom
of the commissioners in making the reduc
ton. On "New Jersey day" the citizens o
that State appear to have turned out al
most en- masse. The late encampment o
military; the international regatta; the pro
posed exhibit of live stock, and the man,
other attractions being devised for the edi
ficatlon of the patrons, as well as the de
ightful weather now prevailing, serve t.
crowd the Exposition with daily increae
ing throng Of visitors, which bids fair t.
make it one of the most successful of 81
the worlds fairs ever held.
General Sherman expresses the opinion
that Sitting Bulls army is dividing up int
small parties with the purpose Of skulkin
back into the reservations. He thinks ther
will be no moro offensive fighting by tina
chieftain, and that he will ask to make tn
best terms attainable with the authorities
It is evident that the General deems &C
we're policy toward tho leaders as about tn
correct thing.
1t is rumored that the Black Hills countr
is to be cleared of Indians. Should sue
prove to be the case large influx of fortun
hunters would at once result, for the opiI
| inn il nanaral that gold Ia abundant an