The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-23
Current Comment.

The hot weather has taken the starch out
of the Democratic editor, so that he cries
"Fraud!' feebly now,
Murat Halstead excitedly to Gail Hamilton
Hi, there! don't shoot. 1 never said any,
thing. 1t was Deacon Richard Smith,"
Mississippi has been under Democratic
rule for two years, and its advantages as a
State to emigrate from seem to increase.
The indianapolis journal thinks there is
very considerable opposition to the Presi.
dents Southern policy all over Indiana, but
that the Republicans are willing to judge by
its results.
But for the fact that Ohio ought 10 have
something under the administration, Col.
Mcclure would protest against the degreia-
tion OF a first class editor like Halstead to a
second class minister.
A correspondent writing to gentleman in
Philadelphia from the scene of the De Kalb,
Mississippi, massacre, says, "that it was en-
tirely without parallel or excuse. In all its
plottings and final consummation 1t was
more diabolical, cowardly, and inhuman than
the Mountain Meadow massacre ITSELF"
The New York Graphic's Washington cor
respondent says that President Hayes recent
trip to New York determined him to bend
his energies toward the recuperation of Amer
ican commerce and to avoid in future the
hospitality of private individuals having busi-
ness relations with the Government. Secre.
tary Evarts will not do any more pleading in
the courts at present.
The Rochester, N. Y, Democrat (Rep.,
pithily says that "the time has come when
any party which desires to maintain itself
must repudiate the whole vicious programme
OF subsidies and International improvements.
Already thas wrought manifold ills upon the
body polite, has prostrated industry, confused
the national finances, stimulated corruption,
exalted lobbies and ruined statesmen"
One of the most curious features OF the
present French crisis is that the thoroughly
royaist Government of Italy and ultra con-
servative German Government declare now
that they are not afraid of req ublcan France
but of royalist and clerical France. The
German papers are unanimous in asserting
that should the Clerical and Royalist parties
come to power, the peace of Europe will be
seriously endangered.
Having demolished the Nation, the Spring
field Republican and the Chicago Tribune,
Gail Hamilton now 'goes for'' the Congre-
gDtionalist. She does not regard it as quite
as vlllainous as the other papers she has
crushed, but as bad enough. Where the
former journals plot assassination, she says,
the Congregationalist only commits assault
and battery with intent to show off. Two
principles appar emily guide its course; one is
always to believe i'll OF it's own political party,
the other is never to believe ill Of its own per-
sonal friend.
The people of Mississippi invite Northern
immigration; and there is an association in
that state with that purpose in view. The
unavepged murder of Judge Chisolm and his
heroic daughter speaks the terms on which
Northern men can live in that barbarous So
ciety. They must surrender their political
principles if these are opposed to the princi-
pies Of the dominant party, and must refuse
to testify to the enormities that are practced
before their eyes. The offence of Judge
Chisolm was that he was Republican; and
the offense of his daughter was that she de-
fended her father. For this they were MUIR
dered with circumstances Of brutality that
would have shamed band of Modoc Indians.
Now, the Northern men that are willing to
place their property and their lives in the
keeping of such community must be very
few.-Procidence Journal.