Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-10-09

POLITICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Solid South. Democratic Pur.
poses-.-Pendleton's Financial Talk.


A SOLID south means lSS electoral
votes, and solid north means 2Sl cleo
toral votes, The two together mean the
election of the solid north candidate by
81 majority of the electoral votes. They
mean that the election will not 60 to the
house. and that it will be of no use to
unseat Republicans and seat Democrats
/ with view to such a contingency
Chicago Times.
JUDGE HUMPHREY, who had an OPP
portun,ty of hearing large amount of
testimony from injured parties, during
his sojourn ut Washington, has called
our attention TO long and very inter-
esting interview, which National Re
publican reporter held with Col. A. L.
Morgan, on the cost of being Repub-
| lican in Yazoo county, Miss, and the
treatment he there experienced himself
The account, which will be given to
our readers in detail at another time,
recounts how the killing of Republicans,
and the disorganiZing of their meetings,
has long been regarded merely rs a
pastime. And even Dixon, who for
months had been the champion of "solid
south " DULLES, was not permitted to
escape his own methods of extermina-
ton, when he dared to lend opposition
to the dominant party Morgan, as is
well kno gn, Is an outcast from his ov n
country,-having been driven from there
for daring to assert his own political
opinions, nor can he return, for expert
ence has proven that no man is safe who
believes that the results of the war are
| fixed and eternal Hudson Star and Times.
JEFF DAVIS says {" there has been no
contest in this country for the Liberties
of the states since the war of independ-
ence." just what Mr.. Davis and the
Democratic party would call the little
episode from 1860 to 1865 does not ex-
actly appear. 1t is n period, in their &C.
timation, which should not be referred
to for fear of "rousing bad blood" The
best blood of the nation was spilled in
that contest, and the loyal people who
forgot it and refuse to protect by the
ballot that which brave men in the field
secured by sacrifice of their lives are
unworthy of the rich boon they have re-
ceived. The fact is undisguised that
the attempted destroyers of that period
are putting forth herculean efforts to
gain by assassination what they failed to
reach by open battle. No sane man can
doubt the disastrous results to the nation
if their efforts are crowned with success.
1t is fortunate for the people that the
called session of congress 80 fully laid
open the plans Of the brigadiers and
their allies that any man can SEE the
motives and intentions of the leaders.
The man who has no fear from such
source, and no anxiety, fails to read the
history of the past, marked rs IT is with
footprints of blood. - Chicago Inter Ocean.
Mr.. PENpLEToN says that at the close
of the war "the public debt was enor-
NOUS, and all of it except the debt
incurred before the war, the small
amount of 1910 bonds then out and a
few other special obligations-in all
very small proportion of the public debt
-wss by law, by the common consent OF
ali parties, and all public men, payable
in legal tender notes" This is not a
statement of fact The public debt
reached Is maximum at the end OF
August, 1865. The interest bearing
portion was then S2,38l $50, 225. OF
this the portion contracted before the
issue of greenbacks, which Mr.. Pendle-
ton admits was payable in coin, and the
portion contracted during the war which,
by the express terms of the authorizing
acts, was payable in coin, together
amounted to S689,000,000, which was
very much more than very small pro-
portion Of the whole. OF the remainder,
1926, 100000 of one and two year notes
of 1863, was payable in "lawful
money" and it was, in fact, paid in
greenbacks. The 100 notes, or bonds,
then amounted to S830,000,00 These
were payable, principal and interest,
in greenbacks, or fundable into
$40 bonds, at the option of the
holders, n. the end of three years from
their date The most Of them were
funded into 5.2Os, as the law provided
that they might be. Now, as to the
520's, of which about Sl,600,00O, 600 in
all were issued, about $775,000,00 of
which were known as "consols" of 1865,
1867 and l868,-it is not true that they
were by law, by the common consent OF
sll parties and all public men, payable
In legal tender notes" The law did not
declare them to be SO payable. ltwould
be more correct TO say that all intelli-
gent men agreed at that time that these
bonds were payable in coin, than to say
that they agreed that they were payable
in greenbacks. 1t was not until some
two years later that Mr.. Pendleton In
vented his Ohio idea of greenback pay
ability. Some doubt about the matter
was expressed at an earlier day, and, to
dispose of the doubt, the secretary OF
the treasury had officially expressed the
opinion that the bonds were payable in
coin and it is notorious that they were
sold by the treasury as coin bonds, and
.Lot thav were bought and sold in the