The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-07

REVEREND POLITICIANS. Rebuke Of Pest.
dgR Hayes-T' he Southern Policy Criticized
BY Nep England G lsrgy.--A dispatch from
Boston, dated April e. says:-rhe New Eng.
land Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church opened this morning at Lynn, Resolu'
tons on the Southern question were pre-
scented by Rev, w. +. Mallalieu, d, D., Of
Boston, and upon being read, were received
with great applause, and, by vote Of the
Conference, were referred to a special com.
mittee of ivesto be appointed by the chair.
The preamble TO the resolutions reviews the
blightiul effects of slavery, and the two final
resolutions are, in substance, as follows;
Resoired, That We are alarmed and filed
with apprehensions for the future when we
contemplate the practical sale OF one of the
great political parties Of the Republic by two
politicians Of that party, who have held and
now hold very intimate relations to the Pres
ident, thus sacrificing principle and party
and righteousness for the sake of temporary
success.
ResOtped, That we protest most earnestly
against the action Of the new Administration
in making terms with the chiefof the ku.Klux
instigators of the Hamburg massacre, NJ. c.
Butler, and still more earnestly do we protest
against the official recognition by the Ad'
NulHlhlEhllbu VI Lnhl hIGN tutulN VI knd Aht'
public, who long since ought TO have been
hung for treason, Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, and who now, by threats and in.
timidatiou under the very roof of the White
House, as well as on railroad platforms and
other public places, defes the power of the
Government, and bullies the President into
compliance with his traitorous and wicked
usurpations.
I 1 Il Il. Nr.g.l4
place ON Monday, in Colorado, Michigan,
Ohio, and Missouri. Party lines were not
strictly drawn. Cincinnati and cleveland
went Republican. st. Louis elected Over.
stolz, mayor, regular nominee of Democrats
and Republicans, against Hudson, indepen
dent The Republicans carried Michigan on
the State ticket, but the Democrats elected
mayors in Grand Rapids, Bay City, Marshall,
Flint, Monroe, Saginaw City, East Saginaw,
Ann Arbor, Manistee, Pontiac, Niles, Lam
sing, Grand Haven and Muskegon. Repub'
llcan mayors we're chosen IN Adrian, Port
Huron, Ypsilant, jackson. Big Rapids, Green.
vile, Coruuna, Hlllsdale and Owassa.
The letter of instructions to the Louisiana
Commission looks to the reorganization of
the Louisiana Legislature on the basis of
certificates given by the Returning Board.
The body thus organized is to canvass the
vote for Governor, and the person declared
Governor will be recognized by the President.
1t Is believed this plan will result in the
recognition Of Packard and the election of
two Republican U. $. Senators, that is if the
Nichols government will submit to it, which
is more than doubtful. Congress will with
hold the army appropriation il the troops are
not withdrawn from New Orleans, and ii they
be Withdrawn Packard cannot sustain himself
an hour,
Two Returning Board members of the
Packard House, Fobb, of Ascension, and
burden, of BoSsier parish, were on Monday
sworn IN as members OF the Nichols House,
and took seats in that body Their accession
gives the Nichols House 50 Returning Board
members. I. I. Allan, colored Senator
OF Louisiana, holding over, who has hereto.
fore acted with the Packard body, took seat
IN the Nichols Senate Tuesday.
THE CONTEST rs Ono TINS YEAR.-Anim-
portant political contest will be waged in
Ohio this year. A Governor is to be elected,
and Legislature that will choose a successor
to Stanley Matthews in the United States
Senate. The prominence which the State
now occupies IN national politics, and the
closeness of the vote at the last few elections
lend an additional interest to the coming
contest.
The friends Of the Nichols Legislature con.
tend that he has effected a saving in the col.
lection OF taxes in the State Of $780, per
annum, and has made satisfactory arraugem
ents for the payment Of the July interest ON
the debt. The taxes collected in the First
District of New Orleans to date exceed
$4,000.
The New York Herald remarks that the
state of the army appropriation bill lisa pretty
good guarantee that Packard will yet listen
- reason and make the best of an utterly
hopeless case. The President caunot long
help him if the army bill does not pass, and
pass it certainly will not il Packard is recog.
niLed.
The news that the troops are to be removed
from the State House in Columbia has been
received with demonstrations of JOY in that
city, and elsewhere throughout South Caro-.
lima. lmpromptu meetings have been held,
and salutes fired in honor of the expected
event.