The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-06-22
SOUND VIEWS OF VICE PRESIDENT HEN

SOUND VIEWS OF DEISkks!r EIISk PRESIDENT HEN.
NEW YORK, Juue 13.-Mr. Hendricks
having returned thanks for the honor done
him, alluded to the Presidential election and
said the result as declared in Louisiana and
Florida and at Washington, is not and can
not be made satisfactory to the country for
obvious reasons; that it was not the truth.
"A great and sincere people will rest their
hnal Judgment only upon thruth, never
upon frauds, successful through technicality.
Even should the President and his Cabinet
adopt part or the whole Of the policies aud
purposes tor which the Democratic party
has been contending for many years, and
which became SO distinctly defined last year
even that cannot remove or quiet the
pubic discomfort. Democrats will make no
iactious opposition nor seek to embarrass a
ue e'fsoto adnini-tre.;on, but will snstain IL in
what IS right, because it is right and for
fear OF the country, and not ut all because
of any fealty to the party that stands dciea-
ted aud condemned by the people, The
people cannot allow the selection Of their
Chief Magistrate to become thing Of chance
or sharp practice. The fraud first triumph
ant in American history must be assigned to
Its proper place among the crimes against
popular government, and made so oIious
that no party will dare attempt its rcpeti-
tion He who is elected President must not
be inaugurated until that is settled and
made positive. No Democrat can be sedu-
ced from his devotion and allegiance in any
way-not by the allurements of office, nor
even by the strong appeal in the abandon
ment by the Administration Of vicious pr;n-
clples aud dangerous policies and the adop-
ton OF better doctrines and Just measures
Democrats will not entrust their most cher.
ished principles to the keeping of power
which is attained by vicious aud corrupt
measures. They will rather continue their
faith in the right of the majority to rule, in
accordaIce with the constitutional provi-
sions. All Democrats rejoice with unboun-
ded JOY that free Republican governments
are once more allowed to the States of South
Carolina and Louisiana. They rejoice in
the good fruits that must follow. They
know that peace and good order will pre-
vail that capital will be made secure and
labor contented aud happy that enterprise
will revive, and the cruel burdens OF the
government and public corruption will be
lifted from the shoulders Of labor, and that
production will Increase anu land advance
iH price but they know that, in the Ian
guage OF Gov. Merton, it had become ;nevi-
table. Good government in the States was
not tree will offering upon tho a!tsrs OF
the country. For years the Democrats
had contended in Congress and before the
people, for free Republican States through
out the South, and finally it became ':inevi-
table" because the right and truth were
too strong to be longer suppressed. In this,
the Democrats find reason to stand more
firmly; with their party out of power, with
no patronage to dispense and no money to
distribute; but animated by the spirit of
our institutions and inspired by the senti-
ment of the right of local lfgovernmeut
as inherent in the people. The Democratic
party, during the past ten years, has restor-
ed one State after another, until now the
tread of the soldiers is heard in no Legis.
lature; but in every State the people are
governed by laws of their own enactment and
by lawmakers of their own choosing. Mr..
Hendricks concluded with the declaration
that this occasion had more than personal
signifcance-it proclaimed that we had no
sectional sentiment, no Eastern or Western
policies; the East and the West, the North
and the South were one. A wise and Just
policy would alike promote the prosperity
of each.
FREQUENCY OF SUICIDEs.-The number
of suicides in the United States during the
present year is said to be Unprecedented in
this country. France and Germany, where
infidelity has been more prevalent than in al
most any other countries, seem abo It to yield
their unenviable distinction in this respect
to the United States One of the leading
causes is thought to be the hard times and
it is remarked, "fatbers of families who
have been out of work the whole winter
and who have managed to support them.
selves and their households on the little
savings of years, in the hope of obtaining
employment in the spring, find their hopes
blighted, and in q moment of despair seek
relief from the cares of the world in DEATH -
There is nothing Of heroic character or Of
moral fortitude in such conduct. 1t is
rather cowardice of the basest kind, be.
cause it deserts and leaves to deeper misery
the objects of mans highest concern for
the pusillanimous reason that he cannot bring
himself to share the fate of poverty and
ruin which he has been unable to avert
lt is, moreover q crime apainat tho Nrao