The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-11
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
The yae.sagc Com femued by
skepublicAns-Tiae Nicnraxan
Ca mal-SDuilsern Grant Boom.

The yae.sngc Com femned by
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Nicaraxaa
On mal-Souilsern Grant Boom.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9Th, 1879.
Editor Brookhauen Ledger
There are but two matters OF interest
in the Presidents message. The first
is in a recommendation that green.
backs be retired. Two Republican
representatives have introduced reso-
lntions in effect condemning such q
Evidently the measure will
havo slight support. The Republican
condenses It's advice upon the subject
rs follows: "Let we'll enough alone.
The Post with equal brevity says Let
things alone" The second notable
point in tho message is it's labored
commendation OF civil service ref,rm."
The brass statue of Jaekso, in front of
the White House must have bius',ed
while MIR. Hayes prepared that piece of
impertinence.
No other administration has 80 fre>
quently and boldly defied the Ia W. and
rules of decency as this one in med
ding. with politics in til. States. 1t
removed q man from a %trrinping Custom
House Office in New York because of
his unfitness for it, and then farcad his
election as Governor Upon a State more
.popnlous and wealthy than was the
whole country at the time our civil SER
vice rules were made. Every member
of the Cabinet. except S~ecre.ar,
Schurz. has disguised the country BY
nnseemly interference with political
affairs.
Mr.. Hayes has had a finger in every
personal and political contest in Ohio
since his inauguration. and is now in
structing the people OF Ohio as to their
choice of Il United States Senator.
Senator Gordon has instructed a pre-
amble aud resolution on the snbJect Of
the Nicaragua Canal. The resolution is
as follows:
"That the Government Of the United
States pledges TO accord full aud entire
protection to the company to which
shall be granted a concession by the
government OF Nicaragua for the con
%struction OF said interoceanic canal, and
will secure to said company the peace
fnl enjoyment of the rights conceded
by sad grant"
The last word OF the resolution is the
KEY to its meaning. This 10 the propos
ed Company which has offArs of un~
limited capital from abroad, and Of
which General Grant Is 10 be the Presi-
dent. .
General Burnside, whose resolution
affirming the Monroe. doctrine had its
point extracted by the virtual aband-
onmant of the scheme to buill an
Isthmus Canal under the protection of
foreign nations, moved to discharge the
Committee on foreign relations. He
spoke briefly and we'll upon the subject
of the honored Demot ratio principle of
non-iuterferonce on this continent by
foreign nations.
One Of the Louisiana Republican
witnesses in support of Kaliogg's right
20 a seat III the Senate, confessed YES
teraay on the stand that he had been
indicted for mnrdar, pnrjnry aud forg
cry. He was Il of the leading Rs
publicans of the State.
In this connection [ may refer to
the talk about a Grant boom in
the South. Ioterviews with nil
the leading Southern Congressma5
who have so far arrived, inclndlng
Alexander Stephens. Gen. Hunton.
Randall Gibson. and many Others. de-
velop the fact that there la nothing in
it. [ have talked with twenty in1usnt-
ial Southern Democrats, all of whom
say that not a man of any influence in
the party is committed to or in favor OF
such q movement SIT amounts TO
nothing" said Gen. Gibson, land any
good candidate the Democrats may
nominate will carry all the States that
voted for Tilden ia 1876" Bat the
agitation concerning n Grant sentiment
in tine South has had ona very visible
EFFECT. 1t has sickened tn. s.alwar.
Radicals. who advocate Grant as y
"stronR man. a regular "rsbel hater'
as it We're. Tihy staftad the talk Of
Southern strength for Grant merely to
aid them in working tae boom. but it
wrat 40 far. apparently. and Grant ex-
pressed himself 80 POLITICALLY that they
really began to doubt whether he was
the man they wanted after all. IT is
the Off, and the power these men
want, now and for all time. They
want to array a solid North against a
solid Sonth, and make the campaign
ono of hate aud bitterness. Anything
that interfdrss with this programme
knocks all their calculations into pie.
II Grant m,kes a few m,rc utterauces
like his words to the Army of tbs leu
~lnssea. no will soon cause to ba their
man and his chanccs for q third term
won't be worth n rush.
Six months has been fxed by some
members as the limit of the present
session of Congress, but I think it will
last seven. H.