National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-29

This failure was in the nature OF an expert
ment, and was intended, as everybody
knows, as an offer of Cancellation to the
Southern Democracy. That is oil 1t was,
and constitutional duty had nothing what
ever to do with it. If the Administration
and its friends would come frankly forward
and confess their disappointment at the re-
suit of that experiment they would earn
the public respect, instead of losing IT by
this pettifogging about constitutional duty.
Honest men often make errors, and 1t is
the noblest part of honesty to confess on
error when it is discovered.
AFTER endorsing the action of tho General
Government since the war in supervising elec-
tions in the South, The NATIONAL REPuBLI'
CAN now wants to know by what right Sem
ate Committee goes TO investigate tho suffrage
question in Rhode Island oh, the brass Of
some journals = Cumberland, Nd, Times.
Certainly we did ask by what right aSenate
Committee-but it is Democratic Senate
Committee, mind you-goes to investigate
the suffrage question in the sovereign State
of Rhode Island, and we await satisfac-
tory answer. If it were not for the brass
"of some journals" we would have received
the answer long ago; but instead of answer
ing it they persist in denying the right of
the Government to supervise its own cleo
tions of its own officers in the Southland
all over the country, too Mr.. Times-while
they uphold this interference by the Senate
with the right of suffrage in Little Rhody.
And we remark now, as we frequently have
in alluding to this subject, that the Demo-
Gratis are only consistent in the inconss-
tency of their adherence to the doctrine of
State Rights.
THE Louisville Courier-Journdl OCCASION
ally makes n good hit. 1t strikes the bulls
eye in the following picture of the North
ern people. It has got the thing down to q
dot:
First--No people outside the thug and slum
class ever destroy or try to destroy each
other, or threaten to destroy each other, in the
Northern or Western States.
Second-If man in these States where the
higher civilization" prevails owns revolver
| he keeps it locked up in his bureau drawer, to
be used only against midnight intruders upon
the quiet of his household.
| Third-Political assassination is unknown
in the cultured North or West.
Fourth-Northern men always wait upon
the law to redress their grievances.
| Fifth-Ifa Northern man is smitteu upon
the right check he turns the left to his as
saant to be likewise smitten.
Sixth-Everybody is law-abiding in the cul-
| tured North and West.
Soventh-The shotgun is unknown there.
Eighth-The revolver's crack is never heard
Ninth-In the North everybody is good.
Tenth-In the South everybody is very bad
The Cowier-Journdl probably never ut
tered as many truths in the same number
oflines during its whole existence.
THIS is world OF mutations. Every
body is liable to change and when tina
change is honest and sincere and for til,
better, it is entitled to approval On thu
23d of August the Post held the following
language in regard to the taking off o
DIXON:
There is no more reason for wailing over th
sudden taking off of DIXON than there woult
blood and violence. A community has a righ
to protect itself against such man.
Yesterday morning it piously remarked
So far as tho Post is concerned, it not onl,
, desires but urges the punishment of crimes il
all States and sections, and the preservation 0
order in every locality.
If it will only hold to its grip in this di
rection and continue to practice what i
breaches in the way Of reformation for
year or two, it may attain q respectable po
sition as aw.and-order tutor.
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