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National Republican., 1879-04-05
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,

is the only daily Republican journal at the Ma
tional Capital. Its general and local news
facilities are such IA 10 render Il the most
thorough newspaper south OF Philadelphia.
Its telegraph arrangements are far more per-
feet and reliable than those Of any other
morning journal here. Its corps OF local, de-
partineDtal, and Congressional reporters arc
intelligent, experienced, and efficient, and IL
never allows Itself to be outdone In editorial
enterprise or news In any direction.
Politically THE NATIONAL REPUBLI-
CAN is a fearless and ready defender OF the
Republican faith-never shrinking from duty
or responsibility, but dealing with all ques-
tions of political concernnent In just, frank,
and fearless manner. II battles for the right
in politics as IL sees the right. II respects all
the decencies, proprieties, and moraiities of
life In Its conduct, sacrificing none of these to
policy, eNpedienCy, or so-c.illed Journalistic
enterprise, and in this way IL strives to secure
public respect, confidence. and success. 1t
now has a larger circulation than 1t has had
for many years, and It is iaboring, and will
its circulation and useruiness, and all 1T asks
~ aiu IN tnt accompaniment Oh ils WORK Is
the generous cooperation and encourage
ment of Republicans here and elsewhere.
Ii circuiates largely among the better class
of families and sojourners at the National
Capital, and hence is u valuable advertising
medium for merchants, mapufa cturers, deal
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of business which look TO the public tor pat
ronage-
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with such purposes and resources THE MA
TIoNAL REPUBLICAN seeks that support
and encouragement which its enterprise ant
efforts deserve. itproposes to make a gallan,
fight for the supremacy of Republican princi
pies in the nation, and expects to raise aud
sustain the banner of victory in 1880.
National Republican., 1879-04-05
THE BAyONET SPECTRE.

The Democratic party do not like bayonets;
they have an adherence of them. They pre-
fer shot.guns and rifles, without "bayonets,"
especially at the polls. The Democratic
party, as such, has long had an aversion for
bayonets. 1t could not bear them during
the war TO crush rebellion, when it was pre-
cipitated upon the country by that party.
When the tyrant" LINCOLN, as he WAS
then termed by the Democrats, called for
$4,000 men, with bayonots, to oppose the
rebellion, the Democratic party held up its
hands in horror at an act so unconstitutional
and so subvelsive Of the rights and liberties
of free people. There were in those days
individual Democrats, who, like BRAGG, of
Wisconsin, had more patriotism than De-
mocracy, and who favored the use of the
bayOnet to protect the life Of the country
and the rights OF its people, but they We're
comparatively few. FERNANDO WOOD OPP
posed the bayonet then, except that it went
South 10 the rebels or TO Indiana, TO be used
as circumstances might require by
the Knights of the Golden Circle
of that State, who were in
deep sympathy with the rebellion. The
Democrats were opposed to bayonets when
they resisted the draft in New York city
and laid waste a colored orphan asylum and
murdered colOred men in the streets. They
were opposed to bayonets when they met in
national convention at Chicago and solemn
ly resolved that the war to put down rebel
lion was a miserable failure. They were
opposed to bayonets when they declared in
Congress that they would not vote man
or dollar TO put down rebellion. They have
all along, SINCE the rebellion, been opposed
to bayOnets, unless they were to be welded
by the enemies of the Union.
The Democrats are opposed to bayonets
now, when they are used to protect the
rights of citizens at the ballot-box aud they
are liable TO come in contact with the armed
rifle clubs and shotgun rangers of the South.
They are opposed to "bayOnets' when they
are used to quell Democratic mobs and
riots ut the polls of our elections and may
be used to enforce the laws, re-
store order conserve the public
peace, and sustain the stability of
good government, which youchsRles to all
the people all their rights of citizenship
named in the Constitution and laws Of the
country, The halls of Congress are now
re- echoing with the rebel cry Of down with
the army and "bayones" as protecting
agencies of the right of suffrage and the
purity of the ballot-box, This is the rebel
yell of to-day, and the Democrats of the
North chime in with their faint notes of
harmonious surrender to the behests of n
dominant and domineerng South. They
have captured Congress, and now they de-
National Republican., 1879-04-05

few irresponsible lunaties, but by horde of
advanced rebel lines who used all the
power of the Federal Government, patron
age, courts, marshals, army (the navy only
excepted because from the nature and stu
alton of the country it was impossible) to
further their purpose. Keep on, gentlemen.
Perhaps you think it very able in you to
indulge in such attempts at wit, but we fear
them not, especially when they serve 10
open such gate as this and give us such
opportunities 10 show up your hypocrisy in
such matters. 1t is most dangerous thing
for one to he witty at the expense Of the
full and perfect truth.
National Republican., 1879-04-05
THE AppRoACu,NC CRISIS.

The " Revolution advances step by step
II is now seriously and very pertinaciously
contended that the President has no right
to veto measure that the majority of Con-
gress determine to put through for partisan
purposes. This is substantially denying the
power clearly granted by the Constitution,
for whatever power is conferred by the Con-
stitution carries with il the right to exer-
else that power. This is another step in the
direction of rcvolutiouizing the Constitu-
tion itself by destroying It's powers through
Democratic legislation. This Is wide step.
Now let us take q reckoning rs TO the pro-
gress Of this revolution The first step is
in the direction Of removing from n law the
power Of its own enforcement, which is equiv
alent TO an overturn of the constitutional
rights of citizenship This is bold and
somewhat alarming step The next step
is an assault upon the constitutional power
and right Of exercising the prerogatiye
of the veto on any measure under the
dictates of his own judgment and sense
of duty. This comes but little short OF
repudiating the Constitution outright. 1t
is gradual approach in that direction
For the purpose of intimidating the Presi-
dent from a fearless exercise of his powers
in this crisis hints are given out in speech
on The floor of Congress by Democratic
statesmen that the Presidents title to the
chair he now occupies is very questionable,
and the tenure Of his office as fixed by the
Constitution, is very doubtful
All these things have meaning. They
are not the vaporings and froth Of pas
sionate impulse. They have deeper and
more important meaning than the eler-
vesence of mere party feeling and passion.
They have n purpose which aims Mt the
Constitution and laws of the United States
upon which hang the protection Of the
rights Of citizenship; the peace and pros
perity Of the country, and the perpetuity
of the Republic. There is now but one
short step between the position occupied by
the Democrats in Congress and the overturn
of the Constitution and the unseating OF
the President by force. The country has
no guarantees that that step will not soon
be taken, while the signs of the times point
too strongly in that direction not to excite
attention if not alarm. Much as the Dem
ocrats attempt to disguise 1t, ii is becoming
too apparent TO go unheeded, that n con-
spiracy is fast ripening which has for its
purpose to destroy the safeguards that now
environ the dearest rights of the
citizen by abrogating law and right
to Oyerturn and trample the Con.
sttution in the dirt, peaceably if they can
but forcibly if they must, to expel the Pres
} ident from the seat of power, il needs be
by a resort to force, for that end cannot be
reached in any other way, and lastly, tc
subugate this Government to the domino
tiOn. of those who sought to overthrow it by
secession and rebellion, and to perpetrat,
such wrong by the best agencies available
even though the end be reached through th
blood and strife of violent revolution.
The Democratic programme in its develop
ments point Enthusiastically TO that word il
| all its worst rnnSpuuenrps
National Republican., 1879-04-05

mand that all the safeguards that stand be-
tween them and q full capture of the Gov
enment in 1881 shall be broken down and
removed This is the demand Of to-day,
and if the North and West surrender TO it
they deserve to be the slaves that they will
be if that result shall be reached. The
word never surrender has gone forth, and
no surrender will be made until the North
and West shall be vanquished and con-
quered by the bayonet, if its use is again
invoked
National Republican., 1879-04-05

Mr.. SINGLETON remarked very truth
fully in the House yesterday that ''the re-
turn OF certain gentlemen to public life
bodies no good to the Republic" Mr. S.
retired from public life in the United States
January 12, 1861. He returned thereto,
after having served "his State" in the Con-
lederate Congress- on the 4th of March,
1875. OF course he was too modest yester-
day to refer to the gentlemen in question
by name
National Republican., 1879-04-05

Case" one of The greatest successes among modern
dramatic productions. Mr. Golfers company con
tains number Of prominent dram attic performers,
among whom Mr.. Edwin VaTey and Mr.. v. X.
Collier are best known in this city. Mr.. Golfers
representation OF /. Haiy ". during the Rignod
engagement here some years ago Is wen remom.
bored for its brlliancy and power and as Mt least
comparable with Mr. Rignods rendition of that
character. Miss Bessie Turner(of Beecher.Titon
trial famel is also member Of This company.
National Republican., 1879-04-05

THE New York Tribune asks: "Why is
Mr.. HALsTEAD so raspy toward General
"GARFIELD Isn't there sufficient room
"in Ohio for two great ?" The sus-
picion is that HALsTEAD has always felt
himself a little crowded in Ohio since he
discovered his own greatness
National Republican., 1879-04-05

IT is not strange that CARTER HARRISON
should be elected mayor of Chicago when a
canvass Of its Jail shows the political char
acter of the inmates TO stand lO3 Democrats
to q Republicans These Jail birds repre-
sent public sentiment and worth relatively.
National Republican., 1879-04-05
With the Additional Advantage.

Philadelphia Press
Al the Southern leaders now ask Is to be let aloneI
They can make laws 20 suit themselves quite as
conveniently et Washington as at Richmond, with
the additional advantage Of having the North 10
help foot the bills,
National Republican., 1879-04-05

SPEAKER RANDALL will probably an
nOunce the House committees on Monday.
His informal notice to this effect is con-
strued by malicious persons as a sop to the
Greenbackers who are rampantly anxious
TO have q session on that day.
National Republican., 1879-04-05

Now the Charleston Ne,cs and Courier is
in frame of mind because the President
has nominated Senator d. T. CoRBIN, of
South Carolina, as Judge Of the Supreme
Court OF Utah, since the Democrats have
cheated him out of his seat in the Senate
1t calls for his rejection by the Senate.
National Republican., 1879-04-05
:
WASHINGTON, APRIL 5, 1879.

If the late Democratic victory in Chicago
is to be counted rs the first gun of 1880,
public comfort will be consulted if in the
future they will charge their guns with a
higher quality Of powder.
National Republican., 1879-04-05

down to a solid consistency by excluding
the vapors it is thought that he may con-
pete in his forensic power with the school
boy who commences with" You would
scarce expect one Of my age" &c.
National Republican., 1879-04-05

The Terra Haute Express (Nationol) has
made up its mind that the way to Green
back victory lies through the graveyard
" of the Democracy" This is conclusion
which is not only correct in principle but
sound in logic, for there would have been
no such things as greenbacks known in this
country if the Republicans had not been
forced to issue them to save the Govern
ment at a time when the Democrats were
filing the gIaveyards with loyal dead.
National Republican., 1879-04-05

CARLISLE.-April 4, Suddenly, of hemorrhage Of
the lungs. at the Riggs House, Miss MINNIE CAR
L1sLB, niece of Mr. and Mrs. SpoHord.
RIND-Near sparta, Ca, March 81, 1SIp. Miss
CHARLOTTE NEWTON RlND, daughter of the late
William Alexander and Elizabeth Rnd. OF George
town, ID. c., AGED SO years
Funeral will take place This saturday afternoon,
o'clock. nj the chapel Onk IIill Cemetery, George
town. Friends of the family nvited to attend
without further notice,
National Republican., 1879-04-05
American history since 1884

LDCifpll fOstJ
The revolutionary and dangerous attitude Of the
Democratic majority in Congress is not at all sur
prsing. Can anybody remember anything bad in
American history since 1854 which tho Democratic
party has not supported or anything good which II
has OnDOsQ1
National Republican., 1879-04-05

No one fond Of first class variety entertainment
should fail to visit the Comique this evening The
artstes engaged are among the best in the profes-
enCes.
National Republican., 1879-04-05

WHEN this extra session of Congress shall
have adjourned and the pending appropria-
tion bills are laws free from the obnoxious
political riders the Bourbons have put upon
them the people will begin to ask the why
and wherefore of the expense that win have
been incurred This will certainly be the
result for in the end the Democrats will not
dare to put into complete execution their
threat to cut of the Executive appropra-
tions
National Republican., 1879-04-05

This is nation" solemnly said GARFIELD.
We are, indeed. Mr.. GARFIELD nation Of
Sdtes-thrty- in number.-LOHSriue
Coiuier-JoHriai.
Indeed, our Louisville cotemporary seems
to have become little muddled on this
question. We are in truth "a nation" of
people, who, for municipal purposes of con-
venience, have by popular consent been di-
vided into States, while all these 10000 600 of
people and all these thirty-eight States
form one nation" planted on one Constitu-
ton combined within one Union that is
inseparable, and over which floats one flag
that is inyincible. This Union, this Consti-
tuition, and this flag form the power of our
National Government, to which all States
and all the people must become subordi-
nate, or the nation ceases to exist.
National Republican., 1879-04-05

PROCTOR KNOTT made miserable effort
at wit the other day in his reference to Mr..
FRYE. The truth is that KNOTT totally
exhausted himself in the deliyery--as his
own-of PAT DoNANS Duluth effort sew
eral years ago. SO much so that not the
slightest symptom Of real wit has been dis
covered in his uttcranees since 1t is per-
haps unfortunate for him that he is no
longer on friendly terms with DOMAIN.
National Republican., 1879-04-05

THE Louisville Courier-Jouynal has
Clipped in for TILDEN and HENDRICKS in
1880. This is the only way it thinks that
the 100000 unarmed lambs can be called
together in 1881. THURMAN don't like it,
and won't play much longer if such carry
ings on are to be tolerated in the party
National Republican., 1879-04-05
DIED.

Is nursery wherein oil is life and laugh instead
Of crying and iretting, there is aure TO be found
Dr. Bulls Baby Syrnp Price 25 cents bottle.
National Republican., 1879-04-05
ANUS EIENTS.

National Theatre CarDcrOss' Minstrels-The
Collier COmbination--A Celebrated Case.
The matinee this afternoon and this evenings
performance will close the engagement of the great
Carncross Mnstrels On Monday evening the J, W.
Collier Combination VIII Gppe0r In "A Celebrated
National Republican., 1879-04-05

THE American people were greatly ex-
cited two years ago over the threatened
Southern-claims Nid upon the Treasury.
That excitement served. in measure, to
prepare them for due appreciation of the
disastrous effects of the more recent attempt
at Confederate enGoachment in our gov
ernmental affairs. Looking back at that
attempted raid, and still farther TO the
meek and hypocriticaily humble petitions
of the Southern leaders for pardon at the
close of the war, a comparison is instantly
suggested between the past and the present,
which shows how, step by step, but with
unerring certainty, the rebels have aban-
doned their humility to assume the garb and
position of arrogant sectional power And
hereupon the question naturally arises /:
What of the future2 Will they be per-
mitted to succeed in their further attempts
to seize the entire Government, and assert
within the Union the supremacy of those
principles which they failed to ass srt, sword
in hand, outside Of it
National Republican., 1879-04-05
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National Republican., 1879-04-05

MEssRs. WEAVER and GILLETTE, Iowa
Greenbackers, began digging their political
graves yesterday. The Hawkeye Republic
cans who permitted them to come to the
House, there to join the Northern Dough-
faces in their adhesion to the Conlederacy,
ought 10 be proud ~ of the result of their
work.
National Republican., 1879-04-05

SENATOR HEREFORD gave notice on
Thursday that he would antagonize Senator
IIoAR's resolution on Monday next In
view of this act Of temcrity the Senate adj
iourned over until Monday, and the hero of
West Virginia was Immediately put in
charge Of experienced trainers, who will
coach him for the occasion with unremit-
ting care and skin, # he can be rubbed
National Republican., 1879-04-05

THE Bourhons have not captured the
Capitol entirely, after all that has been said
and done. They are strongly enrenched
at the lower end of the Avenue, and their
skiImish lines have appeared in close prox-
unity to the Executive Mansion but the
citadel has thus Tar withsioOd their as.
saults.
National Republican., 1879-04-05

THE Lynchburg Vl8iaiaa continues to
emit its feeble offensiveness in this direc-
ton, and for which we have very little care.
1t has been compelled to acknowledge itself
guilty of a misstatement of fact when il at
tempted to besmirch Senator BRUCE by i'm
putting to him relation that had no exist
ence Its purpose at the time WAS ev-
identity to both assail and calumniate the
Senator 1t assailed and calumniated him
50 far us il uttered ialsehOOd relating TO
him for the purpose Of bringing disrepute
upon his name. This was calumny for
which it has been brought TO the confess
sonal, and we are not disposed TO crowd
npOn the mourneTs or oppress q repentant
sinner 1t mounted n high horse and has
dismounted in lowliness, and we freely for
give it, because we think it does as well as
it knows. Now, if it viii learn TO bride
an irrascible temper, a licensed pen, an un-
charitable heart, and an unlriendly and Ish-
maelitish disposition it will have less to
condone in the future. Calumny doesn't
pay, especially when it has to be confessed
in public under an dmeRde. II were better
TO keep it under the bride.
National Republican., 1879-04-05

IN the debate in the House ON the LIST in
slant Mr. PRICE asked, When was the first
gun fred?n 1t was plain, sensible, and
pertinent question, and the only sensible
answer to it would have been, "At Sum
ter" for there it WAS that the first gun of
the war was fired. But Mr. CHALMERS, af-
ter would-be witty style, replies, "At
'Harpels Ferry, by JOHN BROWN" If
such sharp and ovdsiye replies are to be ac-
cepted as an answer to such question
then we certainly have the best Of it, We
don't have much regard, though, lor such
answers, lor they imply a wrong idea; but
if they are to be admitted into legitimate
argument we certainly can indulge in them
rs well, for away back Of JOHN BROWN at
IImper's Ferry we have the shots that
were fred on the plains Of Kansas, not by q
National Republican., 1879-04-05

IT is to be hoped that Secretary EyARTs
will not soon make his appearance again on
the floor of the House of Representatives
TO "overawe and intimdate" the members.
lie has already frightened BLACKBURN out
of years growth. This brow heating of
the Representatives of the people will
never do that is" hardly ever"
National Republican., 1879-04-05

WE desire to say to our multitudinous
friends-for all of whom we entertain
high respect, and who are liberal with their
contributions ON the subjects of current
discusson--that it is not possible for us at
present to find space for one in ten OF the
communications which come to our table.
Some of them are very meritorious and we
would gladly give all such place in our
columns, bnt most of them are more
cnltivating a fair crop of patience under
the circumstances, and we hope our sympa-
thi2ing contributors will do likewise.
National Republican., 1879-04-05

The Philadelphia Times expresses the
opinion that President HAYES has mislaid
his amable obstinacy. Not so but from
the standpoint of left-handed sympathy
with Southern Bourbonism which the Times
occupies his obstinacy may have lost the
appeaRnoeof amiability it once wore, How
ever this may be, the country is to be con-
gratulated upon the fact that the mutter-
ings and whispered intimations of a acompro-
mise between the Executive and Congress,
which were not infrequent n fortnight ago
have now ceased altogether.
National Republican., 1879-04-05
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