National Republican., 1879-12-06


THE importance of having q level head
and honest heart to fill the chairmanship of
the National Committee cannot be too
highly appreciated, little as some may
think of its consequence
DEMOCRATS found that they had been
in session for four days without doing any
thing or making serious blunder and they
adjourned over the remaining two days for
fear that something of the sort might hap
pen.
THE finance issue may attract attention
for while but before the next National
election the question will be revived whether
the North or the South shall be vindicated
for the parts they took respectively in the
civil war.
THE President is justly indignant be-
cause polygamy is practiced in Utah.
Should he not be equally indignant be-
cause the Constitution and laws relating to
the rights of citizenship are constantly vio-
lated in the Southern States?
JOHN F. MINES, the great American
romancer, who should have formed n copart-
nership long ago with JIMMY ANDERSON,
has lectured in Tammany Hall as an apollo
gist for the Confederate policy of starving
Union prisoners, aud he was neither hung,
shot nor beheaded. The Northern people
are tolerant.
1T is said that Senator BLAINE has sent
the Baptist Society in Augusta, Me, gift
of $50, and last Sunday at church the COM
mittee's report was read, wherein Mr..
BLAINE was mentioned MS distinguished
citizen "who, if he has not the good fortune
to be President, has the heart of Christian
land the generous hand of prince"
THE Democratic organ has Topped again.
Now it counsels silence and quiet on the
part of the majority in Congress. 1t might
as we'll issue its bull against the efieryescing
powers of n fresh-made cask of beer. These
brigadiers must have vent or burst. They
may not begin to slew and fizzle until
after the holidays, but then they will make
up for lost time, and every seam in their
casks will gush with froth.
DEMOCRATIC success next year will mean
that the country reposes confidence in the
craftsmanship and professions of renewed
loyalty of the Southern Bourbon leaders
And il should be understood that the quail
ity Of their craftsmanship is illustrated in
the fact that their States, one and all, are
now Democratic because of corruption
fraud and assassination, while their loyalty
is fully exemplified by their repeated and
persistent endeavors to assert the supremacy
of the States over the National Government
THAT frebrand thrown into the Repub-
lican camp by the Administration-piRe,
Democratic organs of the day-proves to be
green bass-wood paddle, filled with sap.
Instead of promoting combustion in the
Republican ranks, it seems to have been
utilized by Mr.. BAYARD to spank Mr.
THURMAN, and by Mr.. THURMAN to spank
Mr.. EWING, and so on all around until the
Boreheads of the Democracy find an equili-
brium of soreness in both extremes. No
wonder they can't sit down with comfort
to consult with each other and agree upon
some fixed and definite partisan policy.
GENERAL WICKHAM, like his most prom
inent contestant for the United States Sen,
atorship from Virginia, earned his military
title by active service in the Confederate
army. He was Brigadier-G General in the
cavalry service while MALONE was Major
General with an infantry command. Sena.
tor WITHERs, whose reelection will be
prevented by the success Of either WICK
HAM or MALONE, was surgeon in thu
Confederate service. The struggle at Rich
mOnd is, therefore, three-cornered ex- Con,
federate fight Aud the most amusing fea.
ture of it is betrayed in the anxiety of sucl
journals as the Norfolk Landmark to pre-.
serve the Lost Cause from any reproach
Startled by the current conjecture that the
Debt-Payers may combine with the Re
publicans to defeat MAHoNE and cleo
WIcKHAM, that journal rises to utter th
protest:
GENERAL WICKHAM stands reported a
having said in public speech in this towr
that he never saw the old flag in battle with
out wishing it success with tears in his eyes
and that sort OF man is not TT for any posi-
lion in the gift Of any people.
The true inwardness of the South is no
disturbed in the least by the existing tur
mOil hereabOuts and in the North regard
ing the finance question. Very few of tn
Southern people, and the few who do ar
Republicans own Government bonds, Will
the comparatively small number of Nations
banks in the Southern States are, with rare ea
ceptions, the adventures of Northern stocl
holders In fact, the only interest the ave-
age Southerner has in this question reside
in the soundness Of the currency he receive
inreturn for his agricultural products II
is thoroughly Independent of all consic
eIations arising out Of either patriotic {
selfish Investments in Government secur
ties and only views the National bankin
system US u convenient agency for the CON
mercal manipulation Of his cotton, sugg