National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31
Stopped OVER,

We say it has stopped over for the |
reason that instead of iudulging in grace
ful and argumentative discussion of the |
points at issue, it froths and foams like an
etfervescing pool of trnes, and indulges in |
personalities and impertinencies unbecom-
ing respectable journalism. This being its |
forte, of course it would be unreasonable, |
perhaps, to expect any higher plane of dis
cusson from it, however much its peculiar
tiles may mar the prophecies of journalistic |
relation. 1t usually slops over when it gets |
cornered, and in this instance its effort con-
tains little else than the slops of irrelevance |
and personality.
Now, one word with the COuricr-Journdi |
about THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN being
conducted by an exPublic Printer whose
exit from that official position q few years
ago without conviction for irregularities
@ in the conduct of the office. was due en-
trely to the grace of ULYSSES GRANT" |
This reminds us of another expression in |
the diatribe of the C-J.-in effect that |
hell is brimIul of liars" If this be his |
toric fact, it must account for the license
INDUCED in the above slanderous declara-
tion, for the author of it must conclude
that there is not room even TOR one more,
and hence he feels safe. The statement
made in regard to the exit referred to is
simply a bald and unblushing slander with
out the slightest justification in truth or
justice. An ex-Publie Printer" alluded
to, made "his exit from that position with
IN ntin far ira Ia rit in ha
conduct of the Office" for the reason that
after years of hot pursuit and investiga-
ton Democratic Committee on the Judi
ciary of the House declared in effect that
no Irregularities had been discovered
worthy of the slightest notice. 1t was due
to this fact, and not to the grace of ULYSSES
GRANT" as the C-J alleges, that there
was no conviction for irregularities. The
truth is there were no irregularities upon
| which to convict, and the C-J. and its ilt
have been very unhappy on that account
ever since. Hence it slops over occasionally
as opportunity occurs.
The only legitimate reply that the C.-J
makes to an article in THE NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN, which seems to have agitated its
dirty pool is that
Mr.. TILDEN was elected by n largo majority
President of the United States
No other paper has that news, and an ap-
peal to the records of the Electoral Commits
sion rather sits down on the absurdity Of
that proposition. If TILDEN had been
elected President he would have been in
augurated and seated-but as he was not
a, h,,o in tl,a Ind. a,,t
of tribunal of Democratic invention which
adjudicated that question, he was not in
augurated and seated, even by the aid of
one hundred thousand armed citizens who
were invited to the front by the editor of the
CD. This is history that our cotemporary
should not have forgotten.
The boast of the C-J. of the real prog
ress to substantial aud enduring pros
"perity of the South is not at all relevant
of the matter ut issue. 1t only shows.that
it still worships at the shrine of King Cot
ton, instead Of cultivating proper rever-
ence for the constitutional rights of all the
people Of the United States and Il due re-
spect for the requirements Of the Constitu-
ton, which apply to all alike, irrespective
doesn't the CD. devote its brilliant talents
to the work of defending the rights of citi-
, zenship throughout the South? Why not
call for the punishment Of the ruthless
murderers of Republicans there? Why
not rebuxe those recorded murders in be-
: coming terms of denunciationY Why not
demand for the colored population equal
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all these at the altar upon which has long
been inscribed Cotton is King" and at
whose shrine Offering is made at the expense
ofcommOn honesty toward the colOred pOpu-
lation, from whose bone, sinew and sweat
their King is intrenched in prosperity aud
q power? DO these things, and then the North
may possibly rejoice in Southern advance
ment and prosperity, which has rolled up n
= wealth of ~, 800, 100000, wrung in the last
y ten years in great degree from the oppres-
sions and wrongs practiced upon the labor
ing class through whose industry it has
been attained. Treat the agency by which
this vast wealth has been reached as the
lahorng citizens at the North are treated
II and then there will be no Withholding OF
=; Northern satisfaction at these developments
7, Of progress. But a" Home Rule, which
If has an approving smile for oppression
IS wrong, assassination and murder, such as
It have characterized the South during the
e ten years that have added S2,5OO,OOO,OOO to
ir its wealth, will iiud no commendation witt
e the civilized Chrsianized people of oul
y own or any other country. Wealth wrunl
y from injustice is no blessing to the posses
n sor, nor Is it evidence Of civilized progress
A on the part OF any people. And of Ou'
3 other thing We would remind the C-J.-
i true loyalty to this Union has no reserga
n tions-no technicalities-no special plead
f ing-but involves a full, free aud uncon
# ditional surrender to the Constitution in it
# catholic sense, and " all the requirement