Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-24
POLITICAL DRIFT.

they represent the people, "and the peo-
pie had the right to send them. The
lquestion of taste was for them alone tC
decide" Correct.
The Gin matt Gazette wants to know
if anybody can name a State institution
in Ohio that has not been disOrganized
and Demoralized by the Ohio Legisla-
ture and Gov. Bishop? And yet the
party has been in control of the State a
little short of one year and four months
Perhaps the Confederate Congress
should pass joint resolution that Hayes
and Wheeler are improperly acting as
President and Vice President, and
should give way to Thurman and Ran
dali, and attach it to the Appropriation
Bill
The Cincinnati Commercial says that
there is a good deal of grOaning among
the Democrats about the State, but they
seem to be yielding the point that they
must go for Bishop. They know it is
intensely absurd, and realize that it is a
hard fate to be ridiculous and helpless.
To bring the Government to dead
lock, and throw the country, in which
every reviving interest desires peace,
into confusion. in order that cheating at
the polls may be facilitated, is an issue
which as party the Republicans will
very gladly accept Harper's Weekly.
The Republican majority in Michigan
is 6,0O0 The vote is light compared
with that usually cast in the fall, but
heavy for spring election. The DEM
ocratic-Greenback coalition was mel
ancholy failure. Michigan will give a
Republican majority of p, 900 at the next
fall election. If the Democrats and Ma
tionals unite it will be larger.
A list of all the members who have
sat in both houses of Congress since the
federal Constitution went into force
shows that seven hundred and four were
born in New York State, five hundred
thirty-two in Virginia, four hundred and
thirty-nine in Massachusetts and three
hundred and forty in Connecticut: These
States lead the list.
Governor Talbot of Massachusetts has
vetoed bill providing that upon the
death of inmates of public institutions,
supported in life at the public charge,
their 'bodies shall be prepared for re-
moval by the authorities, and if not
called for within two days after death
shall be delivered up tor the. promotion
of anatomical science at the expiration
of that time" He thinks that pauper
who requests decent burial should have
l..
OfSecretary Sherman the Philadelphia
Times SAYS: "Mr Sherman is politi-
clan and has been a good deal of time
server, but he has had the discernment
to perceive, and the courage to act upon
his perception, that the path to success
lay in disregarding the clamor of dema-
gogues and going straightforward in his
administration of the Treasury as though
the principles of government finance
were in no way questionable. 1t is in
this that he has shown his strength"
SOUTHERN DAY OF REJOICING.
And though by the inscrutable order
ing of wise, overruling Providence all
this blood and sacrifice failed to accom-
plish its object, still a radiant halo of
glory will ever overspread the graves
and memories of those who died in de-
! fense of Southern liberty. For these
reasons the anniversary of the attack
upon Fort Sumter will ever awaken the
profoundest emotions and sympathies of
our people.-[Macon, Ga, Tel. Oem).
! We have carefully examined the vote
of seventy-eig election districts out
side of the large cities country districts
where the political issue was directly
made, and where both parties nominated
respectable men, and by comparison with
the vote of last fall we find the aggre-
gate net Republican gain to be 931. At
the same ratio throughout the State the
Republican gain would amount to full
$4,000. How is that for "straws?"
The emigration ofnegroes from Louis
lana and Mississippi has now stopped
entirely, says the Vicksburg Miss Her.
aid Oem) That journal scouts the no
ton that political abuses have had moth
ing to do with the movement and says:
Politics has had great deal to do with
it, and it is folly for us to deny it. The
colored man prizes his political rights as
much as we do ours, and many of us
know he has not always had them in
this State and Louisiana. If we can't
hold our own with intelligence, wealth
and pluck on our side, we deserve to
suffer. s-i ie
Now there is General w. 7. Sherman
perhaps he might be induced to lead a
march to the sea in 1880. There could
be found no better timber in the coun-
try to rally around than old Tecumseh.
He represents all that Grant does as a
war Republican, and has not the preju-
dices to contend with that either the lat
ter or his own brother John would have.
Of course it would not be pleasant for
him to throw up his present high COM
mand, but this is the sort of an emergen-
cy when the right man for the right
place should not consult so much his
own as the DeODle's wishes If the Con-
federacy must be split in two again, why
it must.