Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-09-12
Campaign ReadiDgs

ing O single session o. Congress-, about $500,
OOO, 900 for internal improvements.
A Southern raid on the United States
Treasury for $3.50, 1000, 900 is to be voted
for, or against, at the next election.
There will be no danger of banhupting
the Treasury by the payment of Southern
claims should there be a Republican ma
jority in Congress.
In his five-coIumn defense of Mr.. Til
den Manten Marble hadn't room to ex-
plain his alleged assurance to McLin that
he would never know want again if he
gave Florida to Tilden.
Banning will not be chairman of the
House Committee on Military Affairs in
the next Congress. His pardoned peni-
tentiary birds will not even have the OPP
portunity of stuffing ballot-boxes for him.
'Lincoln's hirelings,' as an epithet ap-
piled to our gallant ''Boys in Blue" is
again heard throughout the Confederacy
amid revival of the old "rebel yelI'' and
defiant fhurrahs for jeff Davis 20 What
say our 'tBoys in BIue?''
''We told you sop exclaims the Okolona
(Miss.) Southern States sFWe told you that
the principle of State rights was still as
popular in the South as it was in 1851 -
and that the fires of treason, hatred, and
revenge are stronger to-day than in 1861.
The farm-owners and small property
owners in this country should naturally
form an effectual barrier against any as
saa1tup the rights of property, for if
those rights are destroyed they will be
the greatest sufferers.
If the possession of one-half of Congress
suits what would be the result with both
Houses under their control? Will Judge
Thurman take his pencil and figure out
the answer for his next keynote?
One of the greatest needs of the country
at the present time is thorough appreci-
alton of the intense hunger of the solid
South and the immense magnitude of
Southern war claims, already made and
prepared to be made on the United States
Treasury.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle warns its
fellow-Democrats that, F'if they expect to
elect a President two years hence, they
had better pay attention to all forms of In
dependentism in the South.'' Or, in other
words, the shotgun plan should be ap-
piled to Independents as well as to Re
publicans.
With the land filled with unemployed
Iabor-the Democrats say three millions,
but which is a great xaggeratien-the
free-trade Democracy propose to import
more Iaborers, or, which is the same thing,
to bring the products of foreign labor to
supply our market free of duty.
DIr. Potter was supposed to be an hon
orable man; he took the responsibility
| before the whole world of making the
charges against Secretary Sherman and
Minister Noyes, and he has not only not
sustained the charges, but disproved them
| by his own witnesses. What should he
now do?
Congressman John Goode, of Virginia,
in recent speech to his constituents, said !:
| ''The Northern people are peculiarly SEN
sitive on the subject of Southern war
claims; but he had reason to believe that
at the next session of. Congress there
would be better prospect of success
So think all the Southern Democrats. 1t
depends on the Republicans as to wheth-
er he will be disappointed or not.
The Republicans of Maine, in conven-
ton at Portland, affirm that 'Fthe party is
| committed to redeem pledges which the
| Government made to those who furnished
means or gave their service to save the
Union," and it should be understood
| everywhere, remembered, and never for
gotten, that the Republican party will, in
good faith, redeem all obligations of the
Government.
FFThe unconstitutional amendments 90
will be repealed, and the Constitution
will thus be restored to its primitive vigor,
the ballot-box purified, and politics re-
deemed in an unlimited measure from the
demoralizing influence of ignorant, vic
ious, and mercenary suffrage All this,
the OkoIona (Miss.) Southern States tells
us will be brought about by the ''quiet
revolution which will set in when, in
1881, Democratic President sends his
first message to a Democratic Senate and
House of Representatives"
I w nllS JtlC bCLlOCIdSy nave bCCA
sistently overstating the aggregate num-
Der of unemployed laborers in the coun-
try, they have as persistently and uni
formly curtaiIed and stopped the con-
struction and repair of necessary public
works. While it is not the province OF
Government to create a necessity for ex-
penditures so as to employ the unemploy
ed, on the other hand, when a necessity
: exists for outlay on public works which
are indispensable, to withhold the ex-
penditures at time of great and univer
, sal industrial depression, las the Democrat:
have done since they have had the contro
of the House, is not only unwise, but per
nicious to the last degree. 1t is upon th'
record of deliberately and persistently re
fusing to make appropriations inVolvin!
the employment of labor on public works
of indispensable necessity, of curtailins
t and cutt ing off the lowest salaries, an
the wages of the labOrers, men and VIC
, men, that the Democracy goes before tn
! | country asking its favor, and courting tn
/, votes of laboring men.
Two Ballots TO Each White Voter.
f The Charleston Is. Co. Nea0s and GoOT
icr, the leading and ablest newspaper
= the bull-dozers in that State, says: 9Th
sentiment of the State is that the negroe
. shall not be mOlested so long as they sta
/, quiet and do not put themselves forwar
AS political leaders. The understandin
: was that they should let politics alone.
e No one who pays any attention to the ii
terances of the Southern press can fail
It observe that it is becoming more and nor