National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-16

lie seems 10 nave, by some Odd chance,
missed the opportunity to do so afforded by
tho legislative bill. Perhaps he's going to
stay over on the other side. Beautiful
thought
AMONG the Loyal Probabilities, as it were,
is one which amounts to certainty that |
the coming Decoration Day will be OBJ
served with all the vigor of refreshened |
of the bloody strife which gave it
its solemn origin.
WADE HAMPTON says there is great diff |
ference between Senator WINDOW and a
mule The mule, you see, kicked only one
Of the Great Southern HerO's legs off, while
the Minnesota Senator knocked all of his
from under him and dropped
him fiat in the filthy miro of his own dis
self-cOntradictions.
THE idea that General GRANT is an " ex-
" igency" candidate is evolved from the
inspirations of the situation. lie defeated
the Confederate assault upon the Union
once and can do it again But it begins to
appear that this latest assault of this kind
is wearing itself out, has lost its backbone,
and is shorn of its dangerous strength. This
being admitted, the "exigency" is disap-
pearing, and yet the GRANT movement
continues to boom. How do the exigency
theorists account for thisP
THE bitterly sectional, black Republican,
red Radical newspapers of the North are
teeming with comments, provoked by his
late alleged conciliatory speech in the SEN
ate, upon BEN HILLS black-Hag proposition
in the Confederate Congress. The next
thing these Internal Radicals will do will be
to revive the story that he murdered poor
YANcEY. But everybody knows HILL did
not do the murder; it was the desk in the
Confederate Senate Chamber upon which
YAHCEY fell that broke his back.
WHEN GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS begins
to talk of the Republican party as the only
national organization for the maintenance
of free elections, of popular rights, and of
the legitimate national authority over ey-
cry inch Of the Union" there is ground for
apprehension that the Southern Democracy,
and not the Stalwart Republicans of the
North, are responsible for the sectionallsm
of the hour And G. w. G. has begun to
talk exactly that way-showing thereby
that the last sO.called Liberal straggler has
returned to the Republican ranks.
ALEX. STEPHENS declaration that the
veto power is a necessary and admirable
part of our system Of government" must
not he forgotten. Let us remember to quote
ii as often as it becomes convenient when
Mr., BECK is near at hand. BECK, it should
be understood, proposes that this necessary
and admirable prerogative shall be made to
appear very cheap, a proposition which
shows that the old Scotch -Kcntuckian, be-
ing miserable, seeks company If any one
feels cheap nowadays it must be the
bOastlul author Of the abandoned and repu-
dated starving-out programme.
THE Mississippi Valley immigration Com
pany is the title of new New Orleans or
ganization, having proposed capital OF
100000" and for its object the importa-
tion Of Chinese labor 10 supply the places
Of the "exodusing" freedmen. The pro-
gress made aud encouragement received by
this association, composed as it Is of such
prominent men as j. l., HARRIS (of J. /.
HARRIS & CO.., A. MEYER (Of MEYER
WEISS & co.,, s. ID. SrOoKMAN (of S. B
NEWMAN & Co.., j. V. MOORE (of BICKHAM
q MOORE, CHARLES ROBERTs (of Walden
HAWKINS q ROBERrs), A. G. ODER (o
CLAPP Brothers & Co.. and II. II. STEELE
of Tensas Parish, is offered as ground fol
the belief that very soon the entire attitude
OF affairs, especially in Louisiana, will un.
dergo radical change. Meanwhile il /,
well to remember that the Chinese experi-
"ment" essayod in that section immediate
ly at the close of the war was a failure only
because the Cinnamon we're brought into
direct competition with native skilled labor
aud cheap labor at that, for 1t was seldom
if ever, fully and legally compensated, Nov
that the blacks have gone, or are going, thi
competition will be removed, aud the pos
sihle temptation Of a system of peOnage un
der the control Of the State authorities will
be presented TO the cruel and heartless ava
rice oil the observation-disclosures But we shal
see what ne shall seel
The public are now advised that th'
WOJDKUFF expedition around the world vii
fail 10 make a start for the great work II
had before IL, and which has levied heavy
contributions upon printers ink and edi,
tVral effort during the present year
ship bad been secured a Professor stepped
COwu and out Of Amherst College 70 take
the scientific management Of the expedi-
t.ou--tbe managers have sunk about
ss.JJy A Ole Quxgt.e euteIpdss, and the