Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-01

population anywhere would crop ont IN nm.
numbered directions. Production, Consump.
tion, buildings, titled acreage, railway trnfilc,
story of such growth. Whether these tell tale
tests, which cannot be- smothcrodi sustain or
demolish the proposed count in the southern
states viii incidentally appear further on n
your pntience shall endure.
REBELS coSrnoLLNG THE NATION.
let us see how much National control IL
now In the hands Of the South. scnnt az u II
IA numbers and interest, upward Of thirty
members sit in the House ot Representatives
and IN the Electoral Colleges by reason Of
counting tho whole cOlOred population ~ cit.
Things % WI" Win III The hic whites. Ths Is "a a double
wrong and double robbery, 10 Just the extent
TO which the freedmen arc hlndered or de-
frnudcd of their vote and their voice. APP
plause,l To what extent this IL true the cleo
tion returns too clearly show. This repre-
sontatiOn, based on stined rights, is n plain
violation Of the Constitution and Of common
honesty; but there II is, and there II speaks
I'm the Nntion's councils. The sixteen lately
seceding States Including Delaware, Mary
land, Kentucky and Missouri, which did not
seCedc) have thirty.tWO Senators. Thirty
nine Is n majority Of the Senate, 80 that the
South needs only seven Senators from the
other States TO make u majority Of all. She
will never tail to get them If seven Northern
Democrats are there. There are twelve there
now.
IN THE HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES,
there are 293 members. majority Is 14I. The
South has l0J members, lacking only Al of n
majority of all. The Electoral College con
sists of $780, A majority IS 1885. The South has
| 1873, lacking only AZ Of II majority. Consider
the sway these numbers have. In the senate
! there are twenty eight committees, and com
mittees not only prepare, but virtually con.
! troll legislation In both Houses, and this must
| be so more and more as the Houses and bust
/ ness grow larger. of these twenty eight Com.
/ mittees the South has the ChaiImanship of
/ seventeen and the control of all. The South.
/ en Chairmanships are Of important Commit
] NNfh1u afffN
many as the City of Cleveland, o., or "a single
| rural county I'm New lOrk-has the Chairman
| ships of the Committees of Privileges and
! Elections and OF Finance, both very import
| tant committees. The great state of New
! York, with 100000 people and her enormous
| interests and tax paying has for her Demo
| mittee on Patents. West Virginia has the
| Craftsmanship of the Committee on Appro.
| priations, which holds the purse strings of
the country. The great State of Pennsylvania
| has the Craftsmanship of Revision of Laws-a
| committee whose business was finished years
/ ago. Virginia has the Craftsmanship of the
| Committee on Pensions; Georgia Of Com
merce; Texas of Post offices and Post roads
Missouri OF Claims: North Carolina Of Rail
roads and so on. have said the South has
control of the working committees.
THIS Is TRUE
I'm this way: On every Committee there IS a
| majority of Democrats, and of these majority
in all cases consists Of Southern Senators.
The same conditions prevail in the House,
| There are foTty-two Committees. The Chair
men of twenty-five arc from the South. All
the Committees are so constituted that the
/ majority is Democratic, and of the majority
more than half is Southern. During the two
| years which this absolute power I'm both
! Houses has been so lodged the existence OF
the veto power and the approach of the Presi-
dental canvass have suggested urgent reasons
for "going slow" Many expected bills have
not been introduced; many that have been
introduced have not been pressed"; some
that have been pressed" have run against
such obstinate opposition as to secure pres
ent postponement or some publications. But
whenever the hour strikes that the veto pow.
er is I'm Democratic hands-whatever the solid
caucus DEGREES will be written, the caucus
will be controlled by those who represent less
than one seventh of the people of the Union
| Applause.
STUBBORN FACTS.
After showing by n large mass of statistics
how the great commercial and industrial in
terests of the country centered in the North
and asking whether the South should be per.
mitted to control them, he said:
southern commerce is simple, tardy and de
pendent. Northern commerce Is complex, in.
tensely active, highly organized and indepen'
dent Northern methods and progression
have constantly increased their FRUITS. The
reverse Is true of Southern methods. In 1864
the imports of New Orleans were $50, ,022, ,773
Last year they were only Sl0,Si ,25i. They were
less last year than in any year from 1866 t.
to 1873. In 1860 exports from New Orleans
were Sl0I,Sl2, $50. Last year they were only
S0O249, 49,S74-less than in 1870 and 1874. The ton
mage account varies this statement, but only
! apparently, because steam vessels have beer
more used of late, and steam vessels count
more rapidly I'm tonnage than in cargoes. Like
retrograde and stagnation appear at othel
Southern ports. Baltimore is not treated as
Southern port, because it is the ocean ter
minus of a great East and West line OF traffic
Now turn to Northern ports: