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National Republican., 1878-08-06
SOUTH CARoLINA CONCILIArIoS.

South Carolina, as a whole, is bad enough,
in all conscience, when we consider 1t as q
part OF great civilized and Christianiged
country; but the bloody ground of that
blotch upon the Union Of States is Edgefeld
County. Its soil has been saturated with
the blood of murdered Republicans, until it
has become u blot upon the map Of civilian
tion. Its history is stained with the gore of
assassination, and it seems proud of its
record and defiant in its bloody purposes
Its symptoms OF reconciliation are not favor
able. Its people are vindictive, ruflianly,
aud brutal, and time and circumstance
work no apparent reform in their practices
and habits. Even Governor HAMPTON
seems to have lost his influence over the
people of Edgcfeld, if he ever possessed any
for good. He recently took occasion to de-
nounce fraud, murder, and intimidation as
unbecoming American citizenship, and to
counsel the things that make for law, order,
and fair play to all parties. This PROPOSE
tiOn was regarded as an insult to the Demo-
Gratis of that bloody county and an infringe
up their voices in earnest protest against
this untimcly interference, through the col
umns of their organ, the Edgetield Adrer-
tiser, in the following emphatic manner
Let HAMPTON speak, HAGOOD spout, and let
the devil In hell roar, but remember that SEN
timentality about the negro on paper and In
speeches is au exceedingly different thing
from II practical application of the negro at
tue ballot-box. rhe one is pretty the other
is the devil. Edgefeld was no fool IN 1876.
She has reason to smile with calm contempt at
all outside sneers and innuendos.
This remarkable evidence of Cancellation
and placation, though it comes from Edge
field, il fair sample Of the feeling and SEN
timent which inspire the whole State OF
South Caroline though in other sections,
perhaps, the people may be less outspoken
and bold in their oltensivcncss. But this is
fair sample Of the woof of reconciliation
that has been put together from the threads
OF liberation that have been furnished at
the hand Of the present Administration
| Pure US the motives OF the President may
have been, and high aud patriotic as may
! have been his purposes in inauguatng put
ciiic policy toward the South, his efforts are
thus rudcly spurncd and spit upon by the
people OF South Carolina. They turn like q
viper and sting the bosom that has warmed
them into life through Il desire to bring
them within the influence of II more fra
ternal and peaceful era of good feeling. II
is all lost. The fruits of that sowing are o.
the basest character, and President IIAYE.
must he convinced by this time that hi,
Southern policy is loves labor lost" W,
admit that HAMPTON talks and behave
much better than his people, and that may
be policy on his part under the circum
stances, lie might, perhaps, talk and be
have differently If his people were not now
in the frame Of mind that needs no educa
tiou or encouragement.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

GENERAL CHALMERS, of Fort Pillow mas
sacre fame, Is campaigning for reelection 10
the House from Mississippi. He is reported
in one Of his speeches TO have gushed and
gushed in his admiration for JEFF DAVIS us
the greatest Of American heroes, or some
thing equally absurd, and then to have de-
clared that secession is to him q dead issue
The New York 7ym,s Is stupid enough to
praise him for this speech, and TO remark
that e the Generals winter in Washington
has done him good" 1t is just exactly
such remarks and misapplied praise as this
that serve to mislcad the people Of the
Moth regarding the true feelings Of the ex-
Confederate Democracy Of the South.
CHALMERS is as much Of secessionist at
heart to-day as he ever was. Secession is
only dead TO him now because he is COM
pelled to believe that IL cannot be success
fully revived But he will never abandon
the effort he aud his fellow-partisans arc
now making to revive It's so-called princi-
pies within the Union. As II is, he fills in
the House seat which righthlly belongs
to Republican, for his district is anti.
Democratic by 22,OO0 majority.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

"CHARIIE" iorNG, the pal of EPH HoI-
LAND who stuffed the ballot boxes for the
election of the Bounding BANsING to the
House from Cincinnati, has been pardonod
HOLLAND was already free, and now all the
perpetrators of this crime against free SUI;
fragc are out Of Jail, invested again with al
the rights of citizenship, and ready fol-
work in the coming fall elections. There i.
nothing that so tends to cxalt civil-servict
reform ms concliatory forgiveness especially
when the party to be forgiven is or has beer
an active agent in the perpctration of Dem
Ocratic frauds
National Republican., 1878-08-06

He must be blind indeed, and willfully
so, who does not see that JEFF DAVIS is still
the Great Leader Of political opinion in the
South. His late speech in Mississippi was
rs much OF keynote to the campaign in
that section as the one to I've sounded soon
to the faithful in Ohio by Senator THURMAN
or Mr.. EWING. He has pursued this policy
of shaping political thought among his for
mer followers at the beginning Of each CAM
paign since the war. The Northern people
have heretofore sneercd at him as an IntOl-
cradle scold and q misanthropic, unrecon-
structed rebel, whose utterances served no
purpose except to make Republican cam
paign capital; but the southerners have
steadily followed his advice, until they have
resained in the name of Democracy Solid
South. The regularity of his political
speeches and the coincidence OF the success
of his advice are very plain.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

THE Vermont Greenbackers are having a
hard time. They find no one willing to ac-
ccpt place on their State ticket, and have
adjourned their convention to meet again
OH the 22d inst. Meanwhile they are earn
estly at work hunting mp candidates. But
the Greenbackers OF Vermont are mostly
Copperheads, and the movement will either
be abandoned or end in grand tzzle. The
people up there have no stomach for new
tangled notions born of the necessities and
ambitions of that class. They believe, and
rightfully, that the Republican party is
strong enough and wise enough to be con-
tiuued in control of the Government until
it shall have worked out the solution Of all
the troubles that were incurred by the war
it fought to a successful issue.
National Republican., 1878-08-06
PERSONAL.
rev. EDWIN CoAS is at Ocean Grove.

REV. EDWIN CoAS Is at Ocean Grove.
MADAME poNIsI is resting ut Milford Pa.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD has sailed for Eu.
rope.
Mr.. THEODORE MosHER is at Sharon
Springs
Miss MARY ANDERSON has returned from
Europe,
Mr.. STRAKosCH has engaged Nine Litta
for America.
A DELICATE parcel-a young woman wrap
ped up in herself,
b. NJ HAMILTON and wife, Concord n, H.,
are at the Imperial.
SIR GARNET WoLsELEY's salary as Governor
of Cyprus is $1,000.
Mr.. MOODY, 1t is understood, will go TO Bal.
timUre next winter.
COMMODORE VASDERBILr's widow Is sum.
meTng at Bristol, Vt.
ALFRED MORTON, of Syracuse, New York, b
guest at the Imperial.
H. NJ, WILLIAMS and family, Of San Fran
cisco Are at the Imperial.
AGNES BoorH gives up her bookkeeping
National Republican., 1878-08-06

THE Democrats of Ohio gerrymandcred
the territory of that State, but the Repuh.
hcans are gerrymaudering the voters. Thr
nomination Of CONVERSE by the Democrats
in the district which includes, among others
Pickaway and Madison Counties, has xiveu
great dissatisfaction. Democrats and Re.
publicdns have united to induce Mr.. LOREN.
10 ENGLISH to consent to accept the Repub
lican nomination. This acceptance viii
make matters very lively for Mr.. CONVERSE
who is not host Of himself We doubt i
the people will indorse to any considerabl,
extent the gerrynander outrage in the Stat,
OF Ohio
National Republican., 1878-08-06

GENERAL JOIN y. PALMER has been
doing some very plain talking lately. Re
ferring to the Greeubackers and their ire
deemable money schemes, as illustrated in
their campaign out in Illinois, he says
" The entire movement against hard money
" is a relic Of Copperheadism of the war =;
" that it grows out of desire to injuIe the
credit OF the Government and destroy
" confidence in it." This may be very true
as regards the original demonstration of
this much-talked-of movement but 1t is,
nevertheless, a iact that lstterly not a few
good men and true, who were anything but
Copperheads during the war, have Joined
it. They will see the error of their ways in
time, however, and return to their proper
allegiance. They cannot remain very long
in such company, any more than General
PALMER can Democrat though he is.
National Republican., 1878-08-06
The Campaign Before Richmond.


To the Editor Of the National Repub'ican:
Sin: 1t is constantly the cry Of the Democ.
racy that the issues Of the war aud those pre-
ceding it are dead, but yesterday the WASH
ington organ Of the god-like Tildcn contained
an article attempting to revive the dcadcst Of
them all-the fiction that 1t takes five Yankees
to whip one Confederate gentleman.
The letter in question claimed to give the
numbers commanded by Generals Lee aud
Grant respectively during the campaign of
1sGI.'65. / do not impugn the honesty of the
writer's intention, but do challenge the nc.
curacy of his information. He places Grants
strength at not far from threo times that OF
Lee.
Shortly after the war procured the actual
numbers under each of those renowned cap
tains from official records, and give them here I:
In May 1864, Grant had, Of all arms, 0s. 1919 (:
Butler had on the James, 25000, Total. l23,.
Olo. Lee had S6,742; there were at Richmond,
32,6ji; total, 1896; Grants excess over Lee,
1913.
The battles of the Wilderness were fought
by Lee against an odds Of II 2I7 only, or about
one-cighth Of his forces. The power Of the
North to show up the most Greeks WAS put
forth little later.
THE "organ's" correspondent also fails to
remember some Of the reinforccments received
by Lee. While in front Of Petersburg the
division to which the writer OF this belonged
was not only confronted by troops from the
Csrolinas, but by Finnegan's division from
Florida-old hunters, unpleasant,y proficient
with the rife, aud commaded by brave old
rebel. Some of these troops were hurried
back by rail TO meet the attacks on Fort Fisher.
Even supposing that A. Y. p. G.'s figures
were correct, the South might draw a pregnant
moral from them for II the North could raise
such countless numbers from an inferior terri
tory, with q harsh climate and u poorer soil,
why should the South wish, rs It does to rc.
turn to = system which resulted in general
poverty, sparse population, absence Of mechani.
cal productions, and laboring population
ready to fight work, and pray for the invader ?
This communication is not intended to fur.
ther or obstruct the thrd-term question. As
far as the next election Is concerned, "Sufli
cient unto the day is the evil thereof" Re.
spectfuily, sTALWARr.
WASTED-Fyery one TO he free from DimDles
National Republican., 1878-08-06

HAMPTON's denomination was signalized
by recommendation that Congress shall
modify the laws regarding punishment for
Illicit distilling, which was embodied in the
platform on which he is running Nothing
is said in this precious document in the
way of sympathy for the prosecuted reve.
confined for legally prosecuting the illicit
distillers. Nor does it contain any allirmu.
ton OF the supreme authority or duty OF the
General Government in the matter OF pro-
tecting its citiIeus and officers against out
rage lie is II Bourbon and Nulitlcr of the
most dangerous kind, and the platform is
exactly Of the style he can consistently
stand upon.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

THE man who upholds his opinion by
brute force if necessary is to be respected,
even though his argument and his cause be
pernicious; but he who noisily speaks his
piece, yet fails to give physical support II
required, is a braggart, misChief-maker,
and a coward. This country is afflicted at
the present time with many such. LONG
STREET MOsRY, KEY, and others have long
since accepted the situation, and are doing
their utmost TO bring about the era of peace
and goodwill These men, in 1861, be-
licvcd iu the justice Of their cause and
fought accordingly. That cause failed, and
seeing their error, and in good faith accept
ing the magnanimUus terms Ol their con
qurrcrs, have since dctracted naught from
their gsllantry nor their devotion for their
own section OF the country by endeayOring
to honestly and faithfully uphold the con,
stitu,iOnal amendments, But the FAIL
srAFFs of the South are Us numerous now
~ in 1861, when one SOuthron could whip
ten Yankees. Those who did fall upon the
field Of battle were mostly those who op
posed secession bitterly. And so too now
The men who will fight are the men o
peace and the weary, restless spirits arr
those upon whom four years Of civil wa
National Republican., 1878-08-06

IT has been the habit recently, among the
Nationals Or Greenlackers, to cite the pros
perity Of the AdrOoaic, SHUPEs great Green
back newspaper, as proof of the popularity
Of their principles. 1t il rather unfortunate
for this boast that SHrPE has been COM
pelled to 20 through bankruptcy, confcssing
that he is not worth five dollars, and that
the Adrocatc has been maintained by the
venerable PETER CuoPER's money.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

tiations are In progress for the scttlement Of
the difficulty In q manner that will not COM
promise the dignity OF the State" Sixty illi-
cit distillers have surrendered themselves to
the internal revenue officers, pleaded guiltyto
their crimes, and been turned loose under a
promise to behave themselves in the future.
How long they will keep their promises,
which are more brittle than the typical pie
crust, remains to be seen but their surren-
der is part Of the programme of quiet
negotiation TO which we refer IL Is con-
cession, so these managers will clain-this
surrender Of criminals with the implicit
understanding that they will not he pun
ished Is concession, and q step in the direc-
ton Of conciliation. Meanwhile the news
is sent throughout the land that the power
of the General Government is being asserted
in South Carolina-power, forsooth, about
of piece with the paroling of guerillas
during the war, which act our quick -witted
volunteers used to describe as whetting the
fangs of a rattlcsnake, reflling his poison
bag, and turning him loose again.
II is to be hoped that this trifling over a
serious subject will soon come TO an end,
and that severe and vigorous steps will be
taken TO assert the dignity and authority
Of the General Government where II has
not only been grossly insultcd, but openly
de1cd. As the matter now stands the
Democrats seem to have succeeded to some
extent in hushing 1t up or smoothing 1t
over, for the purpose Of allaying excitement
over II until the fall campaign shall have
passed, and It is to be feared that some one
high in authority In Washington has been
guilty of aiding them in this purely parti-
san endcavor. But It will not do 10
temporize in such emergencies. This is the
first, or rather the most prominent, case OF
reassertion Of Confederate heresies within
the Union that has occurred since the war
II is the beginning of the fulfllment of the
ex-Confederate boast to win within the
Union what the Confederacy failed to gain
outside of it. The idea of a compromise
under such circumstances is not only dis.
graceful and cowardly, but it is dangerous
If this renewed germ Of notification Is not
nipped in the bud it will grow apace until
the entire South is overspread with its
noxious increase,
National Republican., 1878-08-06
Mr.. CHARLES NJ. NyE will act as the cor

Mr.. CHARLES NJ. NYE will act rs the cor
respondent Of The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
at Washington Grove during the approach
ing campmeeting. The doings of each day
will appear the following morning. Those
desiring The REPUBLICAN at the camp
grounds can have it by leaving their orders
At the counting-room. 1t will be furnished
for sale on the grounds daily.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

The Democratic organ, with the jim An
DERsON attachment, has had to take water
again on account OF its slanderous attack on
General J. II. KErCHUM. That's what comes
OF adding new liar to its corps. The ma
chine isn't strong enough now to carry the
steam oi filsehood its boiler-power generates.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

THE Hon. FRANK JONES, of the first New
Hampshire district, probably made a virtue
Of necessity when he declined renomna-
kion to the House. His career as a Repre-
sentative has been thoroughly ventilated by
knowing and reliable correspondents in
these columns. 1t is a wide stretch OF
courtesy to prefix his name with the Gus.
tomary Hon"
National Republican., 1878-08-06

THE New York Express complains in be-
half of Chairman POTTER that he has been
outvoted in his committee, and that the
Louisiana branch Of the misnamed inquiry
is due to General BEN BUTLER This is all
very true, for POTTER knew that an expo
sure OF the Louisiana bargain would impli-
cate any number of Democratic politicians
from the South in the devious ways with
which the peaceful" inauguration oil
President HAYES was accomplished. He
was himself an auti-TiLDES Democrat, and
at that time Sympathized with the effort to
"swindle TILDEN out of his rights Since
then he has been bought over by TILDEN
with u promise that he shall be the nexI
Democratic candidate for Governor Of New
York, But General BCTLER has draggcC
him step by step into an exposure of the
filthy intrigues attendant upon the WORM
LEY conference until now he is compelled
TO apologize Tor having been partly instru'
mental in making public the treachery O.
his former auti-TILpES associates.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

TIE Democrats expect solid South Car
olina delegation in the next House. HAMp-
TON has promised that the negroes shall
have their rights, and the Democratic man
ayers know what that means in State
where the Republican majority is legti
mately $1,000.
National Republican., 1878-08-06
VIRGINIA POLITICS AND PROSPECT

The Old Dominion-the Mother of Presi-
dents-appears to be q good deal stirred up
and mixed in her domestic politics. The
political element is in fermentation, being
divided into Democrats, Conservatives, Re-
adjusters, Rcpudiationists, Nationals, Green
hackers, &c; but, true to their instincts
and habits this discordant element will
no doubt to n great extent coalcsce and fuse
in the eleventh hour and act somewhat har-
moniously as Bourbon Democrats. All the
conventions Of the Democrats meet during
the present month TO nominate candidates
for the Forty-sixth Congress. In some of
the districts there will be no conventions
do not represent majority Of the voters,
and conventions in Virginia are generally
getting in low repute.
The first district is at present represented
by b. p. DOUGLASS, Of King William Coun-
ty. In this district eight candidates present
themselves for preferment Among them
WV. WALKER, Southern Methodist preach
er and lawyer, is prominent.
In the second district J. GoODE Is the
present Representative. Several candidates
are in the field, among them Colonel LAMB,
of Norfolk. The convention will be held
on the 2lst of August.
The third district is at present repre-
sented by q. c. WALKER, who declines to
be q candidate for reelection. Several
candidates ara urgent for rpreiermcnt in this
district but General J. L. JOHNSTON will
probably secure the nomination.
The fourth district, represented by Dr.
JoRGENsEN, Republican, has placed him in
nomination for reelection. The Democrats
are considering whether they will put up
Colonel HINTON or Colonel s. F. COLEMAN
to be defeated by DIR. JoRGESsEN.
The fifth district is now represented by
Mr.. CABELI, and thus far the district is
quiet as to who shall be his successor.
The sixth district is represented by J. X.
TUCKER who, though he will not canvass
for denomination, will undoubtedly be re-
nominated to succeed himself Mr.. WHITE
HEAD desires the Democratic nomination,
but is not likely to win it, The district is
mortgaged to TUCKER beyond doubt
In the seventh district, which Is repre-
sented by JOHN J. HARRIs, the Democrats
will hold no convention to nominate. The
district will be opened to free fight. PAR
son MAssIE, the great Readjuster, will enter
for the race, but HARRIs, being popular and
having been elected by lO,s73 majority be-
fore, will undoubtedly take the cakes. lie
| il also n Readiuster
In the eighth district, which is repre-
seuted by EpPA HuNroN, the Democrats
hold their nominating convention at Alex
andria on the 2Sth instant. The compcti-
ton is very brisk-some five or six double
sets of delegates from different sections hav.
ing been already elected and the chance
are that the District convention will break
up in row. HuNToN and NEALE are the
principal competitors. i. JOHNSON Ben.
HAM has announced himself iS an independ
ent candidate, with a determination not u
withdraw. This may render the contest in.
teresting, and the result somewhat doubt,
full
The ninth district is now represented BY
A. L. PRIDEMoRE, and who is likely to sue
coed him is not apparent.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

DENNIS and BENJAMIN are the new DA-
NON and PYrHIAs Of our modern politics.
DENNIS, being drayman, is the DAMON in
this representation, for he has horse to
lose, aud he will be lucky if he doesn't lose
mara
National Republican., 1878-08-06

BEAcoNsrrELD and the old slave power Of
the United States in regard to the acquisi-
ton of territory, the only difference in the
two cases being that the former has sue
ceeded, while the latter were described by
the Conservative press and publicists OF
England as barbarian aggressors. But
JOHN BULL was always particular about
whose OK suffered the goring.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

THE seizure of the island Of Cyprus by
Great Britain-for it amounts to nothing
less-recalIs the Ostend Manifesto. issued u
quarter OF a century ago by JAMES BU-
GHANAN, JOHN Y. MASON, and PIERRE
SoULE, in which it was boldly proposed that
the United States should seize the island #
Cuba. The New York Tribune comments
upon this coincidence of the designs OF
National Republican., 1878-08-06

Mn. Tii.DES wants to try it over, with a
fresh bar1 lie offers himself to the Demo-
account Of the startling facts brought TO
light by the POTTER committee. This will
embarraSs the Democrats much more than
the Republicans.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

THE firm Of X. NJ. BISHOP & Co, of Gin
einnah, having suspended, there is no
danger now of the Governors signing his
sfficiai papers with the name Of his firm
National Republican., 1878-08-06

THE New York Hs,aid asks, with much
earnest innocence "ls there no way to
suppress the POTTER committee ~ Let it
consult the statutes against nuisances.
National Republican., 1878-08-06
MtRRTED,

oN-wADSWORTH.-At Davenport, Iowa,
August |, 1873 by Professor David McDil. ID. D.,
and Rev. J. W. Coleman. Mr.. JOSEPH e. GORDOS, OF
Kendall Green, aud Miss ANNA sIBYL, eldest dauRh
ter OF Dr. j. Wadsw"rh TIL recently Of Cincinnati,
National Republican., 1878-08-06

Mr.. PoTrAH isgetting to he ashamed of his
Investigation job. His Democratic news
paper friends are beginning to explain that
he is not responsible for all Of the grists that
have been ground out of his Perjury Mill.
Possibly the remark Of the Cincinnati Ga
zcite, that Mr.. POTTER comes from q re-
spectacle family" may have aroused n
spark of slumbering regard for by-gone
days and he is accordingly preparing to re-
turn like the Prodigal Son to the home of
his fathers. The course of disinfecting and
puridcation required for his complete resto-
ration, to which he will necessarily be sub
jected, would exhaust the resources Of bri-
gade of Od0rless Excavating Companies.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

has had no lesson, those with whom peace
Ia enmity, and those who will shit the
mantle of the soldier to those more valor-
OTIS aud worthy. May the South reflect ere
she repeats the sad history of 81.
National Republican., 1878-08-06

WHICH is "the bigger man." KEARSEY OF
BUTLER?