New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-22
POLITICAL.
The Chisholm Case.

Before the trial Of the Chisholm muir
derers began, it was said that convic-
ton was impossible. The trial was
apparently with all due
form. The evidence Of Mrs. Chisholm
was us painful a story as has ever been
told. The opposing testimony, SO far
as il has been published, did not in the
least disproye her account of the
tragedy. The case was argued and
submitted to the jury, and in half an
hour they returned verdict of acqnit-
tai. This is valuable as evidence of
the condition of the State, like the
Yazoo murder of Mr.. Dixon. Some
Southern papers assert that the matter
is no affair of any one beyond the i'm
mediate community, and that North
ern papers and people had better at
tend to their own crimes and criminals.
They have habit of doing that very
thing, and very much more effectively
than the papers and people of the
Southern States. The impression pro-
duced upon intelligent Northern citi-
zens by such events as this acquittal is
plainly stated in an open letter to ex-
Governor A. G. Brown, of Mississippi,
from a gentleman in Michigan, which
we find in recent number of the New
Orleans Times:
";The chief complaint have to bring
time is what appears to me like cowardice in
their time from whisky shop to whisky shop,
and make bar-room politics vocation, to die
tate to better men their action by terrOrizing
and who be
is denied rs fact, then must hold the better
class as responsible for the whole mischief
Intelligent people at the South can not
be surprised that they are supposed to
be absolutely terrorized or utterly in
different, and that the same class at the
North is alarmed by the prospect of a
Presidential election to be determined
bv solid Sonth,
The petulant repulsion of Northern
expressions upon the subject as impu-
dent meddling is one of the fruits Of a
false theory of State-rights. Even if
the Union were mere partnership, ev-:
cry partner would be naturally and
necessarily interested in the conduct
and welfare of every other. In part
nership for any industrial or CONNER
cial purpose, every member would be
vitality concerned in knowing that some
of his associates We're habi:ually drunk
ards or gamblers, although out of bust
ness hours. If partner were accus-
toned to be daily drunk, or to gamble
nightly, although in the privacy of his
own house, he would be Justly held to
account by his associates; and if he at
tempted to plead that his private vices
were his own affairs, they would teach
him peremptorily that the hand is part
of the head, and the foot of the arm, and
that no part can be wounded without
the whole body suffering. 1t is
equally true Of a Nation like
ours, even if it be only Nation,
according to the New York Democratic
platform, "to the extent and for the
purposes defined in the Federal Consti-
tution:' In such Nation the barbar-
ism of Mississippi, or of any part of
Mississippi, affects the whole, and every
part has right to warn and protest
when, for instance, it sees the honest
vote of a district in New York nullitied
by open crime in a district of Missis-
sippi. One such event as the Yazoo
murder or the Chisholm acquittal is
worth hundred Constitutional argu-
ments to the Republican cause. And
when intelligent and patriotic men see
that it is the criminals themselves, and
the public opinion which tolerates and
justifies them, that denounce National
election laws and bayonets at the polls,
they pierce the mask and despisc the
maskers. The Democracy of New
York denounce armed soldiers at the
polls. So do all good citizens. But
all good citizens also denounce armed
rife-clubs and assassins at the polls.
The Democracy of New York reply
that they are for "untrammelled sui
frage, free from Federal interference"
And the Yazoo and Chisholm murder
ers shout Amen!
The people of New York, Nationally
allied with the people of Mississippi
u" for the purposes defined in the Fed
eral Constitution" have a right to re-
quire that the United States Shall pro-
tect the citizens of Mississippi, whom
the people of the United States in the
Constitution have made voters for
Members of Congress, in the exercise
of that function. They have also the
same right to appeal to public opinion
in the State of Mississippi in pursuance
Of common interest that they have to
appeal to the public opinion of New
York. 1t is very much better, un-
doubtedly, that such offenses as we
have described should be corrected by
local opinion aud by local authority,
and the very object of discussion and
protest is to awaken that opinion and
authority to their duty. But the peo-
pie Of the whole country have not
abandoned themselves to the chances
of the failure of that opinion and of
those authorities to remedy the wrong.
The Yazoo murder and the Chisholm
acquittal will prove to be strong popu-
lar arguments for stringent National
Election laws. Ha1pcr's Weekly.
WHEN carpets are we'll cleaned,
sprinkle with salt and fold; when laid,
strew with slightly moistened bran be-
fore sweeping; this, with the salt, will
freshen them wonderfully.
A New Scheme.
An interesting piece of political in
formation comes from Washington,
showing to what extreme measures the
Democracy are prepared to 90 in order
to maintain solid South and get con-
troll of the Government. 1t is stated
that prominent Southern Democrats
have a political plan on hand looking to
changing the method of selecting the
Electors for President in the four South
ern States Of Mississippi, Louisiana,
South Carolina and Florida. The dis
patch which conveys this information
says:
:" The fact has just become known that a
conference of two or three Southern Demo
Gratis from each of the States named was held
here few days before the National Executive
Committee met, and the subject was then con.
sidered. General Chalmers insisted that it
was Of vital importance that the question of
selecting Democratic Electors in those four
States should be placed beyond any doubt.
While the Democracy of those States were in
q position to absolutely control it, and while
he did not himself doubt that all of those
States would go Democratic, there were I'M
pleasant and unfavOrable signs in his own