American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-07-19
PRESS COMMENTS.

placently says Mr.. Foster. "' We killed the
bear,' said the gentleman who sat on the
rafters while his wife beat out the brains of
the beHst with the fire-shOvel," 6ippantly
retorts the Cincinnati En1uirer.
AN active collection of assessments on
clerks in the Federal departments for mon
ey to carry on the Ohio campaign has al
ready begun, says the Washington corre-
spondent of the Louisville COurier-JOurnal,
who explains that " as there Is q law against
leFyihg assessments. the process now Is to
send an agent around to tell the clerks that
they have an opportunity to subscribe to the
fund"
THE Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says: Several prominent
Southern Republicans who are very anxious
fO- the nomination of General Grant ex-
press great disgust at the manner in which
the Federal patronage in the South is being
manipulated in the interest of Secretary
Sherman for the Presidency. They say that
the sherman candidacy is being worked up
in the most open End pnbiushing manner,
and that official patronage has ne7et before
been prostituted to such an extent as it is
now in this interest"
SAYS the Springfield, (Mass.) Republican
Independent Republican,: "senator In
gals has published an extraordinary card
in which he says that the failure of the Sem
ate Committee on Elections toinform him of
its determination to investigate his case
before coming to the Senate, which he
says its members promised to do. leaves him
&c nothing farther to do +" than-to denounce
this breach of faith. Which is q somewhat
curious attitude to take towards an inquiry
ingalls, did all he could to prevent. The
men engaged in prosecuting the charges Of
bribery against Senator ingalls, claim to have
traced 1924, 900 of his money which was used
in securing his election"
NEW YORK Herald on the third term
fooIery: "In the United States there was
never any real danger to the permanence of
the republic Until the sycophants and fiat
tsrers of Gen. Grant conceived the idea of
electing him a third time. II, against all
other precedents and traditions, &c could he
elected thrice, he might be elected indefi
nitely by the aid of military glare and fame,
and the American republic seemed for the
first time in real danger. But this danger
aroused public sentiment. Although France,
our ancient and honored ally, is still dis
turbed by the aspirations of pretenders, we
are exposed to no corresponding danger
since the collapse of the great hippodrOne
performance which had been planned for
escorting Gen. Grant across the continent
from San Francisco"
THE New York San declares: "The Re-
publicans are Jour TRUE Bourboiis. All
their notions of government are Of the
Bourbon sort. When the people vote them
down and out, they refuse to go down, and
stay in. 1t would seem that, according to
their own conceptions, they govern by d.
vine appointment; and they assert their
right to manage elections by military force
as well as by civil sgents of the central au-
thority, and, as in the case Of the Presidency,
to set aside the results of such as do not
please them. If this be not BourbOnIsm,
Bourbonism has existence on earth.
And they learn nothing. They act on the
superstition that species of old-world des-
potism, long since extirpated in every En-
glish-speaking country, will be patiently
borne by the people of the great republic"
MARY CLEMMER, the bright Washington
l9ffpr-w home
men and things. "Nothing,o she says, $50
unerringly marks the intrinsic fiber of a
mans nature as the quality of the men
whom he chooses as his nearest companions.
This is an aesthetic repetition of an old max
i'm, a man is known by the company ne
keeps.'" She applies it to Grant in this
wise: "The people have but to know and
to remember the character of the men lifted
and held in place by this fIian-that their
abuse and degradation of political power
made the administration of Grant memora-
BILE as the most corrupt in the whole history
of the Government-to make it impossible
that a like administration be ever repeated
national affiictiOn-" Yet this is the
man Chaplain Beecher specially eulogizes
in Canadian ears as "lucky in the body and
in the mind that was given him as Il birth
right"
DETROIT Free Press on the Republican
conspiracy: "Day by day the indications
multiply that there is an organized conspir-
acy on the part of the Republican leaders to
retain control Of the Executive Department
of the Government at all hazards, whatever
the will of the people may be. Driven
from power in Congress, and seeing no
means of reinstating themselves therein,
they feel that the sole hope of the party,
either in respect to influence or spOils, is in
retaining possession of the Presidential
office. They will make 4 strong, an almost
superhuman effort, to succeed in that pur-
pose with the appearance, at least, of con-
stitutionality; but it is clearly apparent that
ifrptin al fhnA f.iI .
tainly wilI-they are preparing to resort to
other methods outside the Constitution. 1t
is apparent, moreover, that the method to
be chiefly relied on is force. Fraud has
been tried once, and proved successful; but
none know better than those who tried it
and profited by it that it can never succeed
again. They are preparing, therefore, to
resort. in the next emergency, to force"
THE case briefly stated by the New York
SIN: ''There are about so United States
Marshals in the country, every one of
whom is Republican of some sort. Each
of them employs several deputies all the
year round. On great occasions, when
members of Congress and Presidential
Electors are to be chosen, and the success of
the Republican party makes it necessary to
falsify registration lists; stuff ballot boxes,
and imprison Democratic voters, the Mar
shals are in the habit of appointing large
number of special deputies to perform this
reprehensible service. This was not the
practice in the old days, when Jackson,
Clay, Webster, and Benton were among us;
but it is the custom now, when we are under
the rule of a Fraudulent President. Con-
gress passed bill to pay the salaries of the
United States Marshals and of sutficipn mt
number of deputies to discharge the regu-
lar duties of their offices. The bill contain
ed section which, if fairly construed,
would prevent the expenditure of money
for the employment of special deputies to
perform the nefarioGs acts we have men,
toned, or, in other words, to commit polit-
ical crimes and misdemeanOrs. The Fraud
uent President has vetoed this bill, and the
Marshals are out of money. This is the
whole case. Now let us what the coun-
try thinks of it."
BROTHER GARDNER to the "Limekiln
Club" as reported by the Detroit Free
Press: 81 war called upon las mite by Il
stranger from Mississippi" began the Pres
ident as he got his coat-tails behind him
" He came knOckin' at de doah at late
hour, am war routed outer bed to listen to
de tale Of how he war stranger in a strange
land, out of money, an up heah in search of
liberty. He went on to tell how he had been
bull-do am murdered down Souf, his
wife shot, his chill'en roasted an his cabin
torn down, all kase he wouldn't vote de
Dmercratic ticket. He belonged to de EX-
me jist ABOUT five minutes to wind dat mig
ger up am send him 'long. He couldn't
read nor write. If all de Dimercrats since
Gineral Jackson's time were Elected to offs
at once, it wouldn't have made a cent in his
pocket or out. He wasn't sarchin' fur lib
erty half as much as fur easy job wild
big pay. If he war cher licked by white
men, it was fur stealin'. If he cher had a
wife, he desarted her. IL he eber had
cabin, it was free gift from some one. Dat
quick as ballot. He knew muffin
more bout pollyticks dan ole Uncle Toots
knows of runnin' an ineine. 1t made no
more difference to him who was Elected to
dan kos tn is q