Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-01-31
POLITICAL NOTES.

find some one plank of their wrecked
financial craft on which they can all
float without elbowing and fighting.-4
Cleveland Herald.
Bes~ The Ohio Greenbackers are NOV
ing, and again threatening to attack
the Republicans. Mary, Queen of Scots,
winked at the eXecutioner after her
head was off.--NeD York Graphic lind.
Rep.)
BkS" We notice that Democratic Sem
ators are always frantic about the Con-
stitution until it comes to the recent
amendments, which are the treaty Of
peace under which theconquered States
of the Southern Confederacy were adj
mltted to seat at the National table.
Cincinnati Commercial find.
B65~ Mr.. Watterson says that "the
negro of the South is placable and kind
ly-the fortunate possessor of a sweet,
loving and generous nature" This be-
ing the fact, will not Mr.. Watterson
furnish a companion pen-picture of the
white race of the South, who torture
and kill those sweet, loving and gener-
Gus people because they Choose to vote
q different ticketp-St PduL Pioneer
Press. .... .i.s-.. q
Bay Could anything be more tender
ly and delicately treated than Senator
Thurman treats the attempt of his party.
friends to break up the Government of
the countryP He says that in Jackson's
time the sentiment of devotion TO the
Union was cherished by every true
Democrat; "but subsequent events
chilled, and at length suspended, it in
the South" How could Rebellion be
more mildly characterized than thatp
-PittSburg Telegraph.
R9s~ Governor Simpson, of South
Carolina, has invented q and inn
proved way of uttering the familiar
Southern demand for any candidate in
1880 who can be elected. He says as a
citizen he is hard-money man, but in
the election of President he thinks
"every question of mere legislation
ought to be subordinated to the higher
question of combining the Government
to its constitutional orbit" That sounds
great deal better than an open decla-
ration for any candidate who can be
elected, no matter what his principles,
provided he can be depended on to let
the South have its own sweet will in its
ballot-box stuffing. Yet it means pre-
cisely the same thiDg.-N Y. Tribune.
BaS~ The nice question for the Demo-
cratic party 10 decide, and to decide
quickly, is whether it will pick up the
Greenback corpse and breathe new life
in it, or go about its business and "let
the dead bury their dead" "Join the
Greenbackers, cry the Hessians in the
camp, who esteem all ends lawful that
promise success. But the Hessians for
get that the best part of the Democratic
army will not march under that flag.
| Whenever the issue is fairly made up
between honesty and dishonesty, the
people have never yet failed to decide
| properly. In the late election in this
State, when the financial question was
feigned issue, that party suffered
which failed most signally to put itself
on the right side. Philadelphia Record
! Dem.
Ragn In South Carolina the bulldozer
wore red shirt, formed himself into
"Ritle Clubs" and was generally noisy
and foolish, as well as bloodthirsty. In
Louisiana he was more prudent, and
quite as successful. He changed the
name of the white League" to amere
arbitrary number; he formed what he
called - Advisory Committees" instead
of Rifle Clubs; and, as our New Orleans
letter relates, one of his chief devices
for systematic bulldozing went under
the peaceful title, suggestive of rural
| ilirtations and pienics, of 1.-The Buggy
| Brigade" There were about fifty bug
gies in the Tensas Parish Brigade; each
one of them was travelling arsenal"
and their business was to carry orders
to the negroes everywhere to vote the
Democratic ticket, or expect " advice"
from the " Advisory Committees" This
peculiar species of the article seems,
like all other advice, to have been given
very willingly.-N. Y Tribune. -.
BaF A local correspondent of the Bos-
ton Advertiser writes: "Those who
have no sectional or other kind of dis
like or hatred for the white people of
the South are dissatisfied with such ex-
pressions of goodwill as are contained
in the private letter from a gentleman
in Bennettville, S. c., published in your
issue of to-day, for the reason that the
goodwill seems to be of so little prac-
teal value. To illustrate: Some of us
continue to be interested in the educa-
ton of the freedmen. We try to work
in perfectly legitimate, unobtrusive,
and unobiectionable manner. In the
town of Aiken, S. c., the only building
that is not or cannot be insured is the
school-house for colored children. The
risk is declined by the insurance COM
panies because the destruction of that
kind of building by incendiaries or
mobs is apprehended. The companies
are right. Since the first of the year
the fence has been destroyed and the
building fired. Little commercial facts
like these, (many more could be given)
that are quite apart from politics, weigh
! very much more with the well wishers
of the South than do rhetorical phrases
about the Southern heart and rivers
of blood" ;" '"'
BsS- Yankeedom is beginning to un-
derstand that our people are still un-g
subdued--that we are stlll in favor of
States Rights and the rule of white men.
That is why she threatens to fall back
on Grant, and give him third term of
power. Well, we have this to say; II
Grant is elected and attempts to rein.
augurate the reign of damnation and
deviltry that characterized his previous
Administration he will find himself
checkmated after the first move. The
South has recovered the right of home
rule, and she proposes to keep 1t hence
forth and forever-Grant or no Grant
and the sooner the hell-beasts of Puri-
tania learn this little lesson by heart
the better it will be for their temporal
welfare. The South was helpless and
hopeless at the close of our magnificent
struggle for liberty and the Heayen-or-
dained system of human labor; but the
hour of prostratiOn has passed; we have
the upper hand again, thank God! and
Grant, with all his mudsill minions, has
no terrors for us. Let him try his old
role of dictator again, and see how 1t
will work. He will find his mandates
as powerless as those of King Canute,
who tried to command the motions of