Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-15
ouR wAsHINaToN l.ETTER.

luk 3tuL 70 Nouullul NOltIa lu every ANOitu-
ern State. Thousands have left for their
homes TO engage in the work Of the cam
paign. Money is raised to help voters un-
able to pay the expense Of the reduced fare
given by nearly all railroads. The work
done by the National Republican Commit
tee thus far has been four times that Of
any previons Presidential campaign Every
Republican agency is energized by one
thought, peaceful victory II possible over
the frauds Of the Solid South
Letter writing, Hancock, 81" and brass
buttons seem strangely mixed on Govern
or's Island. The effusion Of Hancock 10
the representatives. Of the shipping inter
ests was "gushy." only 106 words, yet
81, )" candidate, was showed 10 ten times
His latest has 1928 words, and ''G" is sand
wiched in with brass buttons eleven times.
The brisk air Of New York harbor, and
the coming 1873 votes Of she Solid South,
have an exhilerating influence upon this
gushing candidate.
The Democratic party stands convicted
before the world Of attempting, in 1876,
TO capture the government by buying cleo
toral votes with "bar'ls" Of money, sand
wiched with knives, shot-guns, assassina-
tions and murders. Will loyal men trust
them in 1880 with their votes.
It is no wonder that the South is solid
for the rebel Democracy. Armed men,
backed by all the power Of the government,
have, ever since Lees surrender, been wag-
ing a war for the suppression Of illicit dis
tilling, in the interest Of enforcsing the
revenue law and the collection Of the
whisky tax. When has any effort in like
manner been made by this magnanimous
government to suppress murders, night
riders, frauds, or to enforce the rights Of
freedmen under the fourteenth and IF
teenth amendments. A distinguished
clergyman, widely known through the
South, rebel during the war and for Han
cock now, admitted to your correspondent,
few weeks since, that he had known Of
multitudes OF colored men being killed
since the war by the whites, but had never
known one punished for such killing. The
arena Of strife changed at the surrender.
II was a struggle for four years, prior to
the SARGE at AppOmattOx, against the Union
and from that date the battle has been
against the Union men Of the South.
With no protection from the government,
and many conflict, these loyal men have
been forced to surrender. The South is
solid Of course.
What we may expect Of Hancock with
his 1873 solid votes may be guessed from a
slight scrutiny Of the present Congress,
The following rebel officers, booted and
spurred, are chairman of committees in
the U. S. Senate. Read it, voters Of the
North who are for Hancock, and make the
acquaintance Of the men who even now
control the legislation and make the laws
for you and shape the destiny Of your
country.
The list has strong smell of Southern
war paint: The rebel Gen. Maxey is chair
mas Of the Post Office committee; rebel
| Capt. Coke, chairman Indian Affairs; reb-
ell Col. Withers, chairman Pensions; rebel
| Gen. COckrell, chairman Claims; rebel Col.
Harrison, chairman Dist. Columbia; rebel
Senator Garland, of JEFF Davis Congress,
chairman Territories; rebel G.n, Ransom,
chairman Railroads; rebel Gen. J. E,
Bailey, chairman Education; rebel Gen.
| NJ. G. Butler, chairman Civil Service; reb-
| eli Col Lamar. chairman Mississippi LIE
wees; rebel Gen. Morgan, chairman Elec-
toral Count; rebel Gen. Butler chairman
| Retrenchment; rebel Gen. Gordon, chair
man Commerce.; rebel Gen. Hill, chairman
| Contingent expenses; rebel Gen. Vest,
chairman Public Service. In the House
the following rebels hold ehairmanships Of
committees: rebel Col. Atkins, Appropri
atlons; rebel Gen. Hunter, Dist. Columbia
rebel ex-Postmaster Gen. Rsagen, Com
merce; rebel Gen. Scales, Indian Affairs
rebel Col. Muldrow, Territories; rebel Col
Cabell, Railroads; Confederate V-Pres. A
| H. Stephens, coinage; rebel Gen. Vance
Patents; rebel Gen. Cook, Public Build
Ings; rebel Gen. King, Inter-0ceanic canal
rebel Gen. Gunter, Private Land Claims
rebel Gen. Whitthorne, Naval Affairs
rebel Gen. Goode, Education and Labor
rebel Gen. Blackburn, Expenditures Of the
War Department, &C., Sc. Time would
fail to tell OF all the other rebels who ar
holding positions in the Capitol aud in thu
Departments. The above are given a.
sample bricks-from the Solid South.
Pity the sorrows of poor old English
He finds the Presidential jordan Eart
road to travel. His grandmother's ghos
has flung its spectral shadow across hi!
pathway, and calls for SO, 964.44 pension
money receipted for by this specimen o
Southern Democracy Sept. 8, 1916, and bl
him gobbled and appropriated. Stealing
cents from dead mems eyes has never beeI
a popular way Of money making, but TO
"ways that are dark and tricks that ar
vain" this grandson of his widowed grand
mother always was peculiar, and the mott
lof his life has been ''the devil take tht
hindmost," grandmother and all. lie
some mysterious hand write, as of old, ol
the doOr-pOsts Of every house in the North
in letters of blood, SO, ,964.44l! A widowe
grandmother's pension money! Receipte
for by VIM. II. Englishl in 1861! Wit
nesses, Jesse d. Bright, U. S. Senator o
Indiana, W. l.. Marcy, Secretary of War
Isaac Toucey, Attorney General, j. L. Ed
wards, Commissioner of Pensions, each
Democrat Of the olden time. Score anoth
er on the ghostly monument that bears tn
record Of this misery, pinching Shylock
that now asks for the sutfrages Of the busl
ness men of this free country.
A few facts are worthy Of consideration
as showing how the Southern Republican
have been bulldozed into a surrender T.
the Democracy, who promise to cast 10
electoral votes for Hancock, The vote cas-
at previous elections was as follows, viz.
1872. Republicans, 1,O95, 400.
1872. Democrats, 1,025, 100.
Total vote, 2,11O,5OO.
1878. Republicans, 303, 1852.
1873. Democrats, 1929, 1856.
Total vote, 1,523,037.
Let the ku-klux, night riders, rifle club
and their ghostly, ghastly doings, te
where the 692, ,248 Republicans votes ar,