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National Republican., 1877-12-29
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The Philadelphia Times is treating its
readers to better and higher order Of read
ing than usual by republishing liberal eI-
tracts from the National Republican Plat
form, June Is, 1876, in italics, that they may
be properly emphasized. 1t puts the fol-
lowing at the head of its editorial column:
The permanent pacihcatio of the Southern
sectisn of the Union and the complete pro-
lection of all the citizens In the FREQ enjoy
ment of all their rights Is duty to which the
Republican party Is pledged. The power to
provide for the enforcement of the principles
mcnts Is vested by those amendments In the
Congress Of the United States, and we declare
1t to DO the solemn obligation Of the Lcgisla-
tive and Executive Departments OF the Gov
ernment to put into immediate and vigorous
exercise all their constitutional powers for re-
moving any causes Of discomfort on the part
of any class, and securing to every American
citizen complete liberty and exact equality In
the exercise Of all civil, political and public
rights. To this end We imperatively demand
| Congress aud a chief executive whose cour-
age and fidelity to these duties shall not falter
until these results are placed beyond dispute
or recall.
To this plank in tho platform every true
Republican gives implicit adherence. Not
one word or sentence in it is abjured by the
Republican party or any of it's true memN'
bers. The only trouble about 1t is that it is
rejected by the southern section of the
Union, and utterly fails in securing that
protection to all the citizens in that portion
of the country in the enjoyment of the
rights that it pledges. That is no fault of
the Republican party or its members, but of
the other side-the Democrats, and those
political traffickers who make trade Of poll
tics, and buy personal advantages at the
expense of popular welfare and
right. If the principles embodied in
that plank were preserved in the Gov
eminent there would be real peace, tran
guilty, mutual good feeling, and bond OF
fellowship throughout the nation. But SO
long as bitter and bloodthirsty hostility
to Republican sentiment, whether clothed
in white or black skins, is pushed to ostra-
citation, the quiet that exists is the still
ness of death, and1all pretenso of goodwill
and good fellowship is q hollow sham.
We greatly prefer to see the principles o.
the Republican platform strictly and rigid
ly enforced in every portion of the country
than to be made to believe that the Repub
lican interests in the South have beer
heartlessly bartered away in the Presiden
tial struggle, and have been literally trans
ferred to the enemy.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

him. There Il only moral obligation resting
upon the President in the matter. e,
Then the Tribune, after applying another
dose Of Its favorits silver-wash to the Com
mercio,, gets down to its work Of settling
the conundrum business in the following
very calm and instructive lesson, which
seems to be aimed at the President direct
more than at its conundrumal adversary.
1t reasons very closely and sensibly when 1t
says:
But after all, what docs the President gain
by setting up an independent opposition to bis
partyf Candidate for reelection or not he
must have some convictions he wishes to carry
out, some policy he would like to enforce. II
he is so welded to his notions that he Is will
ing to break with his party sooner than give
them M, he must think enough of them to
desire TO make them practical. And isn't that
what he wants with partyY III he wants
nothing Of the party, he need not abandon 1t
or gratuitously spurn and cast 1t aside. If ho
has no convictions of public duty, he need only
go along and be governed by the convictions
duty at variance with those of his party,
he certainly wants some sort Of party to
sustain him in them. If they arc worth hav-
ing, they arc worth making an effort to main
tain. Every man who has belief or theory
in religion, politics, or anything else, wants a
party TO believe with him. If he did not he
would not make known his views and sup.
port them by reason and argument. belief
that isn't worth propagating isn't worth hay
ing, and whoever propagates his belief shows
by that that hs wants party. what does
the President want with q partyp Whai
does he want with brains or with anything
else II he has got through, and cares for moth
ing more now that he has attained the Presi
dencyf
National Republican., 1877-12-29

THE Vicksburg Miss Herald looks down
upon "ths driyeling editorial idiots" who
"whine about the wastes that would be ere
sted If the dear niggers were removed" and
says: "The truth is, the South would be i'm
measurably better off if there was not negro
here; but as they are here we must get along
with them the best way we can" This choice
fraternal, and conciliatory sentiment de,
serves place in the basket into which arc
gathered the fruits of pacifcatfon. These
conciliated southrons love the negro, yea
even unto death.
National Republican., 1877-12-29
senator FarIsx.a xa,cdirsprx.

Farley sent forth rs Wing, made his first
canvass for Office with that party, and, In 1864,
was elected by that party to tho Stnte' Legis-
lature., Then Mr.. Farley united himself with
elected to the Legislature In the following
year. He was made speaker Of tho assembly,
aud discharged the duties of the Office with
credit Prior to u Q adjournment Of the scs-
sion, Mr. Farley had developed an ambition
TO be elected to Congress. The late Hon.
James w. Cofforth, 'Tuolumnes favorite son."
represented Tuolumne at the same session,
and had also the desire to be chosen as the
next Congressman Of the district common to
both him and Farley. Farley had likewise
another ambition. II was to mako an elo-
auent yaledictory at the termination of tho
session. Mr. Farley was never an eloquent
speaker, while Coforth, . Know-Nothing
like himself, and whom Farley believed 70 be
his trusty friend, was the readiest and hap
piest debater in the House. He therefore
asked Coforth to write the yalcdictoTy for
him. Cofforth instantly saw the double op-
portunity for the practical joke that was al
ways dear to him, and to lay for season on
the political shclfa competitor whom he feared.
At the session Of 1853 Speaker Isaac b. Walls
had delivered an able valedictory, which
had been much admired and commented
upon. Cofforth copied this, word for word,
with the exception Of the necessary changes
Of dates and allusions,. and handed II to Far
ley the night preceding the adjournment,
apologizing for its length and expressing q
fear that Farley might not be able to mem.
orizc IT, But Mr.. Farley assured him ho was
equal to the task, aud he is siid to have de.
voted the entire night to its commission 10
momory. In tho meantime Coforth pri-
vately impaired the facts to several Of Far.
leys political enemies, aud among Others to
B. +. Washington, then editor Of the
Times aud Transcript. The speech was duly
delivered in Mr.. Farley's best style OF
defamation, and the next morning II was
duly published in the Times and ItaMseripi
in a double column side by side, with the
speech ofwals, OF which 1t was the copy. Far
ley did the wisest thing he could under the
awkward circumstances, and Joined n
heartily as he was able TO in the universal
laugh, but Cotfrotifs primary aim Of retiring
him for season from political prominence
was accomplished Francisco Chroaicie.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

THERE is said to be good deal of excite
ment at Albany, N. Y, over freshly y-started
rumor to the effect that three Republican
members of the Assembly are ineligible
having held the Office of postmaster within a
hundred days of their election, which is a
constitutional disqualification, rendering
them ineligible to the office of Assembly
man. Another report says that the ineligible
members elect hold respectively the offices
of postmaster, register in bankruptcy, and
United States commissioner.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

In THE course of the past few weeks we
have occasionally spoken Of Secretary
SHERMAN as being opposed to the payment
of any debts due to the creditors of the
United States except the holders of Gov
ernment bonds. We have given some in.
stances of classes of creditors who have
been unjustly treated, and some sayings OF
the Secretary in regard to other classes. In
few days We shall designate some special
instances, showing more fully the intention
of Secretary SHERMAN to repudidte all tn,
Indebtedness of the United States excep
that which is formulated into bonds.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

less cognizant Of all that was dono, denies the
existence of any such arrangement.
Mr.. BURKE does not deny having in his pos
session the secret writing authenticatins the
alleged bargain to which Messrs. saERMAN,
MATTHEWS, FOSTER and GARFIELD are said to
be parties of the one part and Messrs. LAMAR,
GORDON, ELLIS, GIRsos, BURKE and Brown
the other, but rather attempts to hold the Re-
publican party 10 the bargain made by these
gentlemen. He says: "If any bargains were
made, the Republican party leaders, so recog-
nized then by tho whole country, were the
parties to them. If any bargains were made
by Mr.. HAYES, never heard Of them. As to
the reopening of the Presidential issue, we con-
slider Il closed Tho old combination between
Senator CoNKLINa and Democratic Senators,
which offered to Louisiana and the country q
defeat of tho electoral count and new election
under CoNkLrNo, may be revived, with view
Of opening the electoral question, but think
II impossible"
These statements amount to but very little
and prove absolutely nothing, because such
contradictory asseverations can safely be made
upon mere technical points But, what Ia
much more TO the purpose Is the fact that Mr.
HAYES appears to have been most diligently
and pcrseveringly engaged in executing such
a contract as If he were in duty bound by .
solemn compact to do so, and has been aided
and abettod and countenanced therein by
Hons. JOHN SHERMAN, STANLEY MATTHEWS
and their confrres. limo bargain or compact'
were made in advance or during the count
which constrained Mr.. HAYES to 90 back OF
"the poor colorcd people ofthe South" why hai
he SO mercilessly abandoned thom to the tendel
mcrccs Of their late mastersf He is officially
informed by the latest election returns that
these people have already been ruled out Of
the South rs "people" aud Citizens" and have
no part or lot in the so-called local self-gov
ernment" that is now the pride of the Presi
| dent,
National Republican., 1877-12-29

President HAYES says gold and silver
are the intrinsic or natural material for the
coin of the world. If this be so, what right
has the Government to confscate either by
not providing for their free coinage. For
other countries they may be used as bull
lion; but at home they require to be coined
20 have legal and current value. Demon
stizing silver is depriving il of its natural
virtue, and confiscating its value.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

THE Republican strength in the Georgia
Legislature turns out to be fifty per cent
bigger than was stated the other day, the
party mastering three representatives.
Charleston IS. C) Neus.
And the Nars could have stated another
fact, equally pertinent: If the Republicans
efGeorgia were allowed free and untrnm.
melled exercise of the right ofsuffrage, they
would have large majority in the Georgia
Legislature.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

On the Arst page of this issue viii be found
an interesting article upon cooperative labor.
1t favors organrations in this country similar
to BoDIN's Fh@ilistere in France, and urges
strong reasons for their success In our rural
districts. Mr.. SMoLENsKI handles tho subject
intelligently and with great force, and, more
over, the present is an epoch when the matter
is likely to receive Its due share Of attention
from the people Of the United States.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

//TuE Post is death on an interview. 1t has
/had several of a very remarkable character,
but perhaps the most remarkable is that re-
ported as having been had with Senator
CocKRELL. We have entertained rather good
opinion of Mr.. CocKRELL's intelligence, but
If he, is correctly reported in the Post in our
humble Judgment, he is better fitted for the
primary class of some political school than for
the Senate of the United States. He utterly
misapprehends the situation as to BUTLER
and KELLOGG. One Is us much Senator as
the other, and the suggestion that the Repub-
lieans would attempt to put BUTLER out for
mere partisan sake is Stiffness condensed. All
that the Republicans desire to do is to asccr.
tain whether Mr.. BUTLER was fairly elected
and he hns himself invited that inquiry. Sc
in the case Of Mr.. KELLOGG. If any Demo.
crat can show that he wrongfully occupies a
scat Ia the Senate no one will want to urge
bis retention. BUTLER and KELLOGG stand
on the same ground, and Mr.. CocKRELL does
not know what he is talking about II he as
serts that KELLOGG is iirmer in his seat thar
any other Senator, by reason of the wording
| of the <esolution under which he was ad
mittel. -
National Republican., 1877-12-29

\REPoRTs from the seat of war in the Eas'
indicate suspension of operations, In conse'
quencc of the inclemency of the weather. q
severe winter having fairly set in. Snow has
fallen to considerable depth, and tho suffer
ings on both sides Is very great. The commits
sariat is taxed to the utmost to supply the
troops in camp. and in some cases the want o
food has been severely felt. Under these cir
cumstances it would be impossible t'
move any large number of troops, and It h
possible, that having now several months fo'
diplomacy, some sort Of peace may be
patched up before the opening sHring makes I
renewal Of active hostilities pOssIble.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

SECRETARY SHERMAN, who is in New
York, promptly interposes . plea of me-
guilty to the charges contained in Mr.
CHANDLER's letter. We trust that Mr.. C
Is mistaken, and that the plea is sustaina'
ble. The national honor is at stake.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

A NOTABLE wedding Of q Bradford County
girl at the capital Of Michigan Is said by the
Lansing RepaJliodn to DO the largest wedding
that ever occurred in the State. October B,
1877, by Rev. J. Ashworth, Mr.. Elmer L. HAM
mond, Of yermontville, Mich, to Miss Phelia
NJ. Parks, formerly Of Bradford County, Penn
syivania, on the lansing Fair Grounds, In the
presence of over Is, 900 witnesses. Many bridal
presents were received. 'F
National Republican., 1877-12-29

IT is stated in the New York Times that
JAMES N. MATTHEW'S, esq, who has for
many years been editor and part proprietor
Of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, has
purchased the Express Of tho same city, and
will take possession in January. The ac-
knowledged ability of Mr.. MATTHEWS gives
assurance Of first-class journal when the
Eyress appears under his management.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN asks, win
CARL scHURz resignT Wethink not.-Naichez
<Miss) Times.
No doubt the Democrats ore quite as we'll
posted as anybody else as to the intentions
of Secretary ScHURz.
National Republican., 1877-12-29
DEMOCRATIC CONTEMPORARY indu

A DEMOCRATIC CONTEMPORARY indulges
gloomy forebodings of tho future, because Its
advice to the Democratic party has not been
taken and followed. Having charged that
the Democrats of the Forty-ffth Congress
lacked craftsmanship and confessed by its in
action to imbecility It exclaims: THAT Dem.
ocratic imbecility, has even gone SO far as To
assist the bloody y-shirt Republicans in humbling
President HAYES. It has done for the Radi'
calls what they themselves thus unaidcd could
not have accomplished. 1t has made the re-
election of GRANT in 1880 almost certainty
National Republican., 1877-12-29

HAS this Republic lived osntnry to be dis
graced and dishonored in the eyes Of the world
BY q set Of cheap demagogues H-New York
TriSuHe.
of course-if the gold vagaries Of the
metropolitan press are to triumph.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

Our intensely conservative neighbor, the
Onion, says: "Inasmuch as IT is universally
admitted that the action Of the President In
regard to the South Is irrevocable, and inas-
much US the course Of the President In regard
to that matter has unquestionably been ap-
proved by an overwhelming majority of the
people of the United States, Mr.. CHASpLERs
letter seems to be a very untimely production
The Union must have information which has
entirely escaped the notice of other people. We
have yet to learn that the Presidents course
in regard to the South has been unquestiona-
bly, approved by a majority of the people of the
United States, let alone the overwhelming part
If Mr.. CHANDLER's letter, with the exhibits
had been carefully read, the Union would moi
have fallen into the error of such statement
unless it did so intentionally'and with malic,
aforcthought. There is entirely too much Of
an assumption in the extract given above.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

A YOUTHFUL north-beuoher said to his
swearing, is II p "Oh, no; that Is tho name
of town in California" rwell, ma, when
you go out the back door Yuba Dam careful,
or you'll take tumble to yourself on that ice;
just sat down on II so sudden that 1t jammed
my neck clean down into my lungs" 1t was
jammed back into place again in Just two sec
onds.-Salt Lake Herald.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

AwnrERS preacher who had been constantly
an noyed duting services by the incessant hack
ing OF some Of the members of his congregation
upon closing his sermon requested such 10 try DR.
Bulls Cough Syrup. Price, 20 cents.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

BRowN-on December n. 1877. GnoRoE Bnows,
Friends OF the family are respectfully invited to at
tend his funeral from the residence Of his parents,
No. SIS Tweny-ourth street northwest sunday, 10Th
instant, at o'clock y. m.
DoUGLAs.-on the morning Of December n. Is77,
BLAScHE, third daughter OF Henry and Annie
Douglas, aged four years three months and six
days
Funeral will take place this tsaturday) morning, nj
1890 o'clock, from the residence, io05 street.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

An communications designed for publication
should BE- brs plainly tvries and only upon one side
Of Ne paper. Communicdtions sndccomponied BY ns
same n TIE a,or not solicited and ,o neitsr Be
vcad nor returned Rejected manuscript tgR not b re
armed nor presaped, The cotrded state Of our col
sm~s during ne session Of Congress vM preclude u
tHAutfon Qf long articles.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

Mr.. N. D. FUGITT Is Agent for the receipt
Of Advertisements and subscriptions for this
Paper, as well as for the Collection Of Ac-
counts.
Mr.. d. n McCLELLAND is siss authorized
- solicit Advertisements.
National Republican., 1877-12-29

SATURDAY ,,,,,,.,,.i. DECEMBER %. isn
National Republican., 1877-12-29

NARRIED.
DIED.

PALMER-HUGHEs.-A the residence OF tho
j. II. PALMER and Miss skLLIE A. HuaHys.
National Republican., 1877-12-29
LOST AND FOUND.

&IOO REwARD.-LosT ON NOVEMBER ii,
plOO 1871, from steamer Lady fthe Lake ply
lug between washington and Norfolk, James v. Fe-
ward will oe paid to any one for the recovery OF his
body, clothing and papers his person, informa
titn that will lead 10 The slme AsLiress,
dc2s-6ts HOWELL 4 BOURKR, Phila., Pa.
National Republican., 1877-12-29
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

r1sp- UNIyERSALIST SERVICEs. REV.
~ Alex. Kent will preach In Taiimadge Hall,
TO.MORRow OF eleven n m.- Sunday school at e1
q m. de2gs
hS. NOTICE.-I DESIRE TO TENDER MY
|kIS thanks 10 the Rev. j. Z. Lewis, ID. d., and tho
ladies OF st. Johns Parish for their appreciation OF
Christmas present.
de29-s LLOYD HARPER,
National Republican., 1877-12-29
HOT SODA,
Coffee, Tea and Chocolate,

COLD SODA AND MINERAL WATER on
draught during the winter. dei0im
NJ Office TO sToCKHoLDERs-THEA ANNUAL
TON AND DX1ExASDRiA TURNPIKE COMPANY
will be held Al the Office Of Francis !. smith, ESQ.,,
corner Wolfe and ~. Asaph street. Alexandria, Va,
on MONDAY, January 4, 1877. at 10 O'Clock = m,
Election for President and Directors came day and
place. . ID. --g = -.
NERVOUS ExHAUsTIoN.--A MEDICAL Rs-
say comprising a ssries Of LECTURES delivered a
cause and cure q Premature Decline. showing ndis
clear synopss Of the impedimen9 TO marriage and
the treatment OF nervous and physical debility being
the result of twenty years experience Price S cent?
Address SECRETARY KAHN'S MUSEUM OF
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National Republican., 1877-12-29
FOR SALE.

OFFICE OF LINCOLN PARK LAND.-THIs
" land Is beautifully located, adjoining Lincoln
Park, Ia squares nss Ssv o i0lS oli 1918, 1854 io3S
iId l0J7 l0 loSs and 1851, will be sold In squares or
lots on easy terms deferred payment. secured at J
plates building square 1914 In tho spring Plans will
be furnished 10 suit the tastes Of purchasers without
cost by THOMAS NJ. PLOWMAN, Architect, at his
Office o2s Esreet northwest, where all inforniatlo
can be obtained. molly
, 1877-02-02
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