Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-08-30

/ CAIN, unless the notes maintained At anu
redeemed at par Is not the United States able 70
/ pay the interest of its notes?
/ THERE HAS BEEN CoSTRACTI0N OF The CURRENCY.
! Judge Thurman says there has been contraction Of
me currency. No one disputes there has been con-
| traction Of the currency. The amount OF United
states notes retired since the passage of the resump
non act Is, as he states it. S35 94 But there was
issued 70 national banks in place OF this S4.l6l,EO
OF circulating notes Il is true that national bank
notes nave been retired but this has been DONE not
under the resumption act but by the voluntary
action OF the banks. They are free to issue retire
their notes, and they have done So
the special privilege about which he has dis
euSsed so much was so valuable to them, they would
have increased their issues OF bank notes. but in
stead OF that the burdens imposed upon this privi
lege and the want Of profitable use Of money. have
induced the banks to reduce their circulation
much greater amount than it has been increased 50
uat ths eHeet mas DeeD large decrease OF the cur
reney OF the country, but this has not been caused
I by the resumption act.
Now these are the objections stated to the national
/ banks by Judge Thurman, and my answer 70 them.
! It comes back again To this: Shall we have in the
/ United States a currency redeemable in coinR Will
We to interest bear in the future all the evils
/ OF an irredeemable currency, tear up system Of
banks infinitely better than any before enjoyed
in this country compel these banks now 70 call in
their loans and close up their accounts and add 70
the distress of the times by dangerous and almost
! revolutionary proceedings against corporations OF
our own creation, which have no special PRIVILEGES
and which contribute to the general good 6y paying
large taxes, and by acting as convenient localized
| agencies of loans and exchange?
! OREGON, FLORIDA, AND LOUISIANA.
I anu uGIe leave Jutl@6 opte-ls
but there are two or three points which ITegret
/ have to answer. He SAYS:
''The seat of the Chief Magistrate-that seat that
in times past has been and in al times should Be
/ emblem OF purity and hOnor-is occupied by man
/ who was never elected 70 it. and whose elevation
was accomplished by the grosest frauds and bOldest
/ usurpations that ever disgraeed the history of q
| free people"
This declaration is gross injustice, and believe
/ Judge Thurman viii 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
Electoral vote of every State cast for President Hayes
was received BY him without dispute, without any
pretention Of fraud error except the votes of Ore
| gon, Florida, and Louisiana.
GOV. THDEN's AGENTS IN OREGON.
In Oregon there was an attempt by acknowledged
agents Of Gov Tlden 70 cheat-T the word in its
worst meaning-the Republicans out Of that vote
and 70 br1be an Elector and II failed In FLORIDA
there had been great Irregularities. and frauds
mitted by the Democrats which were met to soms
extent by frauds on the part Of Republican officers:
but the evidence before the returning officers we'll
as that taken in the contest for the election of
member Of the House of Representatives shows that
majority Of the votes in Florida were fairly cast for
/ the Hayes Electors.
! DENOcRAuC CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY IN LOUISIANA.
As to Louisiana, had better means of iHforma-
ton than Judge Thurman, and say to you that the
criminal conspiracy by the Democratic party Of that
State 70 control the election OF 1876 to cast the
vote of that SUITE for Gov. Tilden has never been
fully told. Il extended to more than ten parishes
OF counties, and held in absolute terror i've Repub-
hcan parishes that had always since the given
about 1000 Republican majority. 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 II wounded, whipped,
and manned Others, drove hundreds to the sWaInps
at night, and spread universal terror among this
| ignorant and supeFstitious people, who had the
same legal right, and better moral right TO vote
tban their Prosecutors whose hands were only re-
Gently red with the blood shed in war against the
/ Union. The chosen agents OF this infamE were
Democratic rifle clubs, fully armed marching at
night in disguise distributing anonymous threats
and occasionally executing them, and leaving no.
tees TO leave the parish with the more intelligent
accompanied with threats and devices to excite fear
ANDERSON AND wEBEK
Such were the means used By the Democratic partv
to carry Louisiana. They may here and there in
duce disappointed Office seeker like Anderson and
Weber, to fasify their former Oaths, and even pre-
vail upon poor negroes like Amy Mitchell and Mrs.
PinkstOn to withdraw their former depOsit0ns but
the scores of dead men killed by the rife clubs
speak from their graves ana 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 aridaYtts made
by these people were 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 TINT State. that
under this law these parishes and polling places
must be excluded and it was done Thus Governor
Hayes got the vote Of Louisiana as lawfully and
fully as that of Ohio. All this cry OF maud and
usurpatiOn, ought. in the minds OF Just men, TO
act with fearful effect against the Democratic party.
for il was their organized crime and violence that
created the doubt which the Returning BOdrQ anO
Electoral Commission decided IN our hYor.
MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA.
And it 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 but 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
in the past by great crimes against the eecive frn-
chise. The frands in PlaQuenine Parish. Louisiana
and in New York City in 1874. will be remembered
by every Whig in the land. Wholesale frauds com
mitted in the city of New YORK in 1865 by which the
vote OF that State was cast for Seymour instead
OF for Grant were disclosed by Con
mitted facts. The frauds and crimes committed by
the Democratic party in its attemptto organize the
State of Kansas into slave State were investigated
by me as a member OF a Congressional Commlttee,
and though disputed at the time, much more stouty
than the Louisiana frauds are now aeknowledged as
facts. The chief frauds IN this country N eiecuons
have been organized by the Democratic party. One
of the dangers which threaten the country If the
Democratic party comes in power viii be the bold
and reck less use Of election machinery 70 commit
frauds and to organize violence ballot box stulng,
and kindred crimes as a part OF our American sys-
The Republican party, in the heat of party zeal has
done something in this way. have no apology 70
would denounce aud expose such wrongs by what
ever party committed, but it is pretty hard Tor us
Republicans 10 De ABOUT eltctlou D9
members OF the Democratic party.
DEMOCRACY RELIES ON SECTIONAL FEELING.
Again he says:
''FellOw citizens nothing iu politics seems more
certain to than that the Republican leaders rest
their hopes of prolongatiOn OF their power upon
the success that may attend studied and energetic
effort on their part to excite and perpetuate sectional
feeling"
HisG strange thing that the Republican party.
distinguished for its national feeling, snould De
charged by the Democratic party with desire to ex
cite and perpetuate sectional feeling. The strength
OF the Democratic party to-day, as before the var,
lies in united South, held not only by sectlonal
feeling but by sectional feeling antagoustlc 70 tne
Union, intensified by its early advocacy OF Stals
rights its attempts at secession ana by Tour years OF
bloody and unsuccessful war agnlnSt the Union.
This sectional feeling so rampant that u ostacSeS
native white men who become Republicans, holdS
In terror the entire black population ana by num-
ntion and osracism prevents the free expression Of
onnion and the free vote OF Republicans at elections
SIi tbe Soutb The South is determined to be sec
fions and as section dominates the CounSelS OF tho
Democratic party ,,,
M inreiliaent man can doubt thatu In the cotton
states there was open, fair opportunity 70 esab
lish newspapers, TO carry on c9npass, and 10 np-
neal TO the natural instincts and Interests Of the
voters OF those States but what majority OF every
one OF them would be with the Republican party.
PRESIDENT HAYES LABORING TO DESTROY SECTIONAL
ISM.
The policy of President Hayes his earnest desire
and hope Is TO destroy secUOnalisn 10 invite by
kindness and forbearanee a like Kindness and for
baaranpn 10 thp Rapuhliesna al the eouth. This