National Republican., 1876-01-24

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recently in Chicago, is gasping for the breath
| of life.
! They pronounced q smallpox patient dead
In indianapolis, whereupon he sat straight up
and said he would "take 1t straight"
| twill take just about ten years to make
loyalty odious unless the present Centennial
| gush sentiment takes some other channel.
The Democratic press of the country have
seen the handwriting on the wall, and inter-
pret its language as an omen of coming defeat.
1t will help to allay the pangs of dissppoint-
ment.
The rumor has been afoat for several days
that the Indiana editors, now on the wing, in
tend to pay the 81 500, 900 Centennial deficit,
and, if possible, make Congress ashamed of
itself.
If the present mild weather continues, the
man who saunters, with parched tongue and
sweltering brow, up to peanut-stsud in the
| Centennial and asks for a drink of ';ice-cool
lemonade" won't get it.
Emma Hoisington, of Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, has received a Bible for having at
tended Sunday school for nine years without
one miss. Where is the young man who has
| ever been so constant without missl
The Republican papers have suddenly dis
covered that 1t is very naughty for Democratic
Congressman to revise their speeches in the
Congressional REHABILITATION Post.
But Republicans mover utter dlsloyal senti-
mcnts that they are ashamed Of.
The "Heathen Chinee" is becoming so nu-
merous in California that the time is not far
distant when they will name the Governor,
says an exchange, but we are under the i'm
preston that should they name him 1t would
end there, for they are without the right Of
franchise.
Pendleton is making splendid headway in
the South. Georgia is ovating him with gor-
geous banquets, vast assemblies, immense pro
cessions, grand pyrotechnic displays, tremen-
dous welcomings, and all this while Hendricks
is sorrowfully watching his presidential hopes
fade in the South and will not be comforted.
Morton's Mississippi speech fell as fat as a
fap:jack. k.-BoSton Post.
"Burnt-cork" yourself, obtain the rights of
citizenship in Mississippi, and attempt to cast
your ballot in the presence of the White
League cut-throats, and, ten chances to one,
you will fall fatter than fap-jack, either by
the knife of an assassin or the bullet of q
Liner. Such little incidents as that occur
there often during election.
And now it is Governor Kemper.au ex-
Confederate general, who rises before the
majesty of the Boston committee, folds his
arms and meekly remarks: "Yirginia and
Massachusetts struggled side by side for Con-
stitutional liberty. Virginia has never slack
ened her endeayors, and was as loyal now in
trying to establish equal rights and laws to
ALL" Never slackened her endeavors! Only
ten years have passed since she stopped firing
her hot shot and canister into the folds of the
American flag, and yet she has "never slack
ened her endeayors" and is as loyal now as
when struggling side by side with Massachu-
setts to build the structure of our Union.
Governor, your hind-sight is wofully deficient;
you have forgotten four years of Virginia his
tory. Be frank and don't tell US that she
never slackened her endeavors, for this the
country knows is not so, but that she is loyal
now we hope is true and are willing and glad
to believe.
As Mr.. Hill took especial pains to dwell
upon the humanity of JEFF. Davis in his recent
speech, We give an extract of one of his in
famous proclamations issued during the war:
''I pronounce and declare Benjamin F. Butler
to be felon deserving of capital punishment.
1 do order that he be no longer considered or
treated as public enemy Of the Confederate
States of America, but as a n outldp and com-
mon enemy of mankind, and that in the event
of his capture the officer in command of the
capturing force do cause him to be Immediately
erectded by hanging. And do further order
that no commanding officer Of the United
States taken captive shall be paroled before
exchange until the said Butler shall have met
with due punishment for his crimes. That all
commanding officers in the command of said
B. F. Butler are declared not entitled to be
considered as soldiers engaged in honorable
warfare, but as robbers and criminals de-
serving death, and that they and each of them
be, whenever captured, reserved for execu-
ton"