Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05

redeemed at par. Is not the United States abfoto.
pay the interest of its notes2 Nss
THERE HAS BEEN CONTRACTION OF THE CURRENCY. NJ
Judge Thurman says there has been contraction of
the currency. No one disputes there has been con- %
traction of the currency The amount OF United D
States notes retired since the passage OF the resump
ton act is, as he states it. $35 3S 4 But there was
issued to national banks i'll place OF this S44 l6l go
OF circulating notes 1t is true that national bank .
notes have been retired but this has been done not
under the resumption act, but by the voluntary
action OF the banks. They free to issue or retire :
their notes and they have done so.
If the special privilege about which he has dis
cuSSed so much valuable to them, they would
stead OF that the burdens imposed upon this pryi
t<e. and the want of profitable use OF money, have
-ineeu the banks to reduce their circulation to !!
niaeh greater amount than 1t has been increased SO
that the effect has been large decrease OF the cur
rency Of the country but this has not been caused
Now these the objections stated TO the national
| banks by Judge Thurman and my answer 10 them.
| II comes back again this: Shall have in the
United States currency redeemabe in coin? VIII
We to save interest bear in the future all the evils
OF an lrredeema6le currency, tear up a system Of
in this country, compel these banks now to call in
their loans and close up their accounts and add 10
revolutionary proceedings against corporations OF
our own creation, which have no special PRIVILEGES
and which contribute TO the general good by paying
| large taxes and by acting convenient localized
agencies OF loans and exchange?
| OREGON, FLORIDA AND LOUISIANA.
And here might leave Judge Thurman's speech
|
''The seat of the Chief Magistrate-that seat that
in times past has been and in all times should ee an
| emblem OF purity and hOncr-is occupied by man
who was never elected to. it, and whose elevation
was accomplished by the grosest frauds and boldest
usurpations that ever dsgraced the history 80
free people"
This declaration is a gross injustice, and believe
Judge Thurman will live to regret that he ever
made it. He was member of the Electoral Com
mission which passed upon the returns OF the votes
Of Electors for President He knows that every
vofa 0f avorv PreSdaQf
was received by him without dispute, without any
pretention of fraud except the votes of Ore
| gon, Florida. and Louisiana
| GOV. TILDENs AGENTS IN OREGON.
| In Oregon there an attempt by acknowledged
agents of Gov 1lden TO cheat-I the word in its
! worst meaning-the Republicans out OF that vote
and 10 brbe an Elector and 1t failed. In Florida
there had been great Irregularities. and frauds COM
mitted oy the Democrats, which were met, to some
extent by frauds on the part of Republican officers:
but the evidence before the returning officers well
as that taken in the contest for the election OF
member OF the House OF Representa- shows tnat
majority of the votes in Florida were fairly cast ior
| the Hayes Electors.
DEMOCRATIC CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY IN LOUISIANA.
| As to louisiana I had better means of informa-
tlon than Judge thurman ana say 70 you tnat @ Sne
criminal conspiracy by the Democratic party OF that
State to control the election of 1876 as to cast the
vote OF that State for Gov. Tilden has never been
fully told. 1t extended TO more than ten parishes
or counties, and held in absolute terror i've Repu0
lcan parishes, that had always since the war given
about 1000 Republican majority. 1t led TO and in
cluded in its plan and scope scores of murders of
| Republicans, white and black, mainly intelligent
| black leaders of their race. 1t wounded whipped,
| and manned others, drove hundreds 10 the swamps
| at night, and spread universal terror among this
| Ignorant and si1perstitious people who had the
same legal right, and better moral right, 10 vote
| than their prosecutors whose hands were only re-
Gently red with the blood shed in war against the
| Union. The chosen agents OF this infamy were
| Democratic rifle clubs, fully armed, marching at
night in disguise. distributing anonymous threats.
| and occasionally executing them, and leaving
tices TO leave the parish with the more INTELLIGENT
accompanied with threats and devices to excite fear
and terror.
| ANDERSON AND WEBER.
Such were the means used by the Democratic party
| to carry Louisiana. They may here and there in
duce disappointed office seeker like Anderson and
Weber, to falsify their former oaths, and even pre-
vail upon poor negroes like Amy Mitchell and Mrs.
Pinkston to withdraw their former depositions; but
| the scores of dead men killed by the rife clubs
| speak from their graves and the men who killed
| them and rode their nightly rides of terror know
now in their hearts that all that has been said OF
| them is true. The statements and affdayits made
BY these people submitted to the local return
ing officers selected by the State legislature, COM
posed OF two white men and two eolored men, all
natives of the South, and these men, who knew the
surroundings and many OF the facts, decided, IN
strict compliance with the law OF that State, that
| under this law these parishes and polling places
must be excluded, and il was done. Thus Governor
| Hayes got the vote OF Louisiana as lawfully and
| fully as that OF Ohio All this cry OF fraud and
usurpaon, ought, in the minds OF just men, to re-
act with fearful effect against the Democratic party,
for it was their organized crime and violence thar
| created the doubt which the Returning Board and
Electoral Commission decided in our favor
| MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA.
| And Il must be remembered in this connection
that there is strong conviction at least among the
Republicans in this country that the States of Mis-
| sissippi and Alabama were successfully secured for
| Gov Tilden by the same unlawful means, hut the
| laws of those States provided no remedy and they
were counted for Tilden.
DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS IN LOUISIANA AND NEW YORK
| Judge Thurman should remember also that the
| history of the Democratic party has been marked
i'm the past by great crimes against the elective fran
| Obi ho plaoueQiQe
and in New York City, in 1874 vii. be remembered
by every Wbg in the land; Wholesale frauds coz,
Vote Of II that Stale was cast FOR Seymour instead
of for Grant were disclosed by Con-
United facts. The frauds and crimes committed by
the Democratic party in its attempt 10 organize the
State of Kansas into slave State were investigated
| by me a member of Congressional Commlttee,
| and though disputed at the time much more stouuy
than the Louisiana frauds, are now aekhowlenged as
facts. The chief frauds in this country IN eecuohs
| have been organized by the Democratic party one
| of the dangers which threaten the country II the
Democratic party comes in power VIII be the oold
! and reekl less use OF election machinery TO commit
frauds and to organize violence, ballot box stufing,
and kindred crimes, as part OF our American sys-
The Republican party, in the heat of party zeal has
done something in this way. have no apology 20
make for such crimes, no sympathy with theIn ana
would denounce and expose such wrongs by what-
ever party committed but it is pretty hard for US
Republicans to be lectured about election irauds oy
members of the Democratic party.
DEMOCRACY RELIES ON SECTIONAL FEELING.
| Again be SAYS:
| '.Fellow citizens nothing in politics seems more
certain to me than that the Republican leaders rest
! their hopes OF prolOngatiou OF their power upon
the success that may attend studied and energetic
effort on their part excite and perpetuae sectional
| feeling"
| II IA strange thing that the Republican party,
distinguished for its national feeling, should be
charged by the Democratic party with desire to ex-
cite and perpetuae sectional feeling: The strength
| OF the Democratic party to-day. as before the war
lies in united South, held not only by sectional
feeling but by sectional feeling antagouStlc TO me
| Union intensified by its early advocacy Of State
rights its attempts at secession and by four years of
| bloody and unsuccessful against the Union.
This Sectional feeling is so rampant that il ostracses
| native white men who become Republicans, holds
in terror the entire black population, and by inumi
dation and ostraciSm prevents the free eNpression
opinion and the free vote of Republicans al elections
! in the South. The South is determined to be sec
tional and as section dominates the counSelS OF the