The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-04-19

Chamberlain's letter but in his South
ern policy has the support of the best
portion u his party and the ablest par
Of The republican and Independent
pres. The fact that Blaine, Wendell
Philips and other soreheads and self
constituted philosophers with bees in
their bonnets abuse him, rather
strengthens him before the country.
THE MISSION TO FRANCE.
That is rather a filthy story abou
Chamberlain's refusal of the mission
to France. That mission is goo(
thing, ana who~ever- knew a carpet
bagger to refuse q good thing. unless
to steal better one; We. surmise it i:
''The fox and the grapes" ..,
las THE, wHIsKEY RING. t..
The claims for release from all civi
suits made by members Of the whiskey
ring, and now under consideration by
the Secretary Of the Treasury, are
based entirely upon the ground thai
ex-Secretary Bristow and Solicitor
Bluford Wilson entered into an agree
ment that If the parties would tarr
states evidence they should be pre-
tected and given immunity from fur
ther prosecution. The records of the
Treasury afford no proof in support Of
the claims set up, and there is no evi.
dence to show that Bristow>was a par.
ty to the bargains made by the District
Attorneys, and therefore they will he
prosecuted to the bitter end. r.i.f.... I
+ -i.i..l PATTERSON CAVES IN, .E
and. has a lingering recollection that
in South Carolina he has numbers oI
carpet-bag friends holding Office. who
may be turned ont if he arrays himself
against the Administration and there
fore called upon Hayes yesterday, and
was very profuse in his offers OF sup
port. ,,.,., 80. ,'.',
'-S THE VENEZUELA MISSION. 'ii4
IT is intimated that our Minister
RusseH's dismissal from Venezuela
will be resented by the sending of the
venezuela Minister at Washington his
paSSpOrtS. nts -rttft. ...AE lN .1uti 81 .t5o
10 THE TROOPS IN ALASKA,
consisting of three companies of artil-
le-y, numbering los men, will be with
drawn at once, aud the Territory turn
ed over to the Treasury Department.
THE sPEAKERsHIP.
Ex-Speaker Randall is confident of
a nomina alton in thenext House on the
first ballot in the Democratic caucus.
He says Ex-Governor Walker, of Vir-
ginia, whose name has been promi-
'nently mentioned for the position, and
to whom sixty votes were said to be
pledged, is one of his warmest support
ers. -4s-lr -ia14t g3..T0 st
H THE LOUISIANA COMMISSION.
1t is believed they have been con-
vinced that if the President should
undertake to sustain Packard the mil
itary force in New Orleans will have
to be SO largely increased us to impair
the efficiency of the army elsewhere.
and that his (Packard's) main reliance
to maintain his title is based on un-
constitutional laws and the unconsti-
tutional action of the Returning Board,
and that they will so report p FL,
.#4f - A NATURAL RESULT. IF3[
It would seem that the Parson who
moved the bloody shirt resolutions in
the New England Methodist Confer
ence, which were SO prudently laid
aside by the second sober thought of
that lbody, is likely to be more than
ever out Of favor. A wealthy brother
who had willed his property to the
church, burned the document in dis
gust on reading those resolutions. Men
who applaud such stuff are not to have
the disposition OF his money.
oBERLIN, OHIO,
is place which concentrates in itself
and its colleges all the isms of New
England. But even that citadel of
New England modern Puritanism has
shown that it is not impregnable, even
on the color line, by the election of II
Democratic Councilman shy the aid of
black voters. "Iiii lsdj ~ bar v5ssi
II A LUMINOUS DEFINITION.
ao"Protocol,Y an original draft of an
instrument in writing called a treaty,
which is supposed to make peace be-
tween nations, but usually is the be-
ginning of war ). for, like the consti-
tuition of the United States, everybody
interprets it in his own way, and no.
body knows exactly what it does mean.
The trouble, however, is not so much
in not knowing what the constitution
of the United States does mean, as i'm
The willful perversion thereof. a's
%" sTARDY REPENTA NOE. lalo}
While the changed tone Of most of
the Republican press and party leaders
in dealing with the Southern question,
is veay acceptable, there is yet some
thing painfully suggeitive in it,
Their sneering at Packard and Cham
berlain, and telling them plainly that
the Republican party had no longer
any use for them, and that they are
marplots and obstacles jim the way of
general pacification and harmony,
tennpts US to ask what all this means,
and what meant their truculently
firece advocacy of both Packard and
Chamberlain, down TO within very
short time To approve now what
Grant might have done long ago, and
Hayes has done partially and tariily,
at the end of six weeks, ought not 10
be- suffered to escape censure for the
advocacy of the very policy they now
forsake and repudiate. s.l kgs4s-I Z
} IL A MATTER OF CoLOR.o i.,- q
The amusing mistakes of English
journals in regard to men and things
Ia this country have long been observ-
ed, and there has been some improve
ment in these particulars lately. 1t is
now understood in England that AL
bany, N. Y, ii not the capital of the
United States, and that all Americans
are not Indians. But they still von-