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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-02
A Distinguished Democrats Opinion Of
Mr., Garfield,

The following letter from the distin-
guished Democratic lawyer, Judge
Black, addressed to Mr.. Blaine, when
Speaker of the House, is strong and
clear about the connection of Gen. Gar
field with the Credit-Mobilier stock
transactions
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. Is, 1s73.-MY DEAR
SIR: From the beginning of the investigation
concerning MIR. Ames use of the Credit Mo-
bilier, | believed that Gen. Garfield was free
from all guilty connection with that business.
This opinion was founded not merely ON my
confidence in his integrity, but ON some special
knowledge of his case. | may have told you
all about IL In conversation, but | desire now
to repeat II by way of reminder.
81 assert unhesitatingly that whatever Gen.
Garfield may have done or forborne to do, he
acted in profound ignorance Of the nature and
character of the thing which Mr.. Amcs was
proposing to sell. He had not the slightest
suspicion that he was to bc taken into ring
organized for the purpose of defrauding the
public, nor did he know that the stock was in
any manner connected with anything which
came, or could come, within the legislative ju-
risdictiOn of Congress. The case against him
lacks the scicnter which alone constitutes
guilt.
"In the winter of ls6g-7O told Gen Garfield
of the fact that his name was on Ames list;
that Ames charged him with being one of his
distributes; explained to him the character,
origin and objects of the Credit Mobilier;
pointed out the connection IL had with Con.
possible it WIS for member of Congress to
hold stock in it without bringing his private
| interests in conflict with his public duty. That
all this was to him perfectly new revelation
| am rs sure as / can he of such fact, or of
any fact which is capable of being proved only
by moral circumstance He told me then the
whole story of Trains offer to him. and Ames
| subsequent solicitation, and his own action in
| the premises, much rs he details it to the Com
| mittee. ! do not undertake to reproduce tho
| conversation, but the effect of 1t all was tC
! convince me thoroughly that when he listened
| to Ames he was perfectly unconscious of any
| evil. | watched carefully every word that fel
! from him ON this point and did not regard his
narrative of the transaction in other respect:
| with much interest, because in my view every
| thing else was Insignificant | did not cart
! whether he had made a bargain technically
| binding or not, his integrity depended upoI
/ the question whether he acted with his eye
/ open. If he had known the true character o.
| the proposition made to him he would not havt
! endured il, much less embraced il.
"Now, couple with this Mr.. Ames' admission
! that he gave no explanation whatever of tn
| matter to General Garfield, then reflect tina
| not particle of proof exists to show that h
! learned anything about it previous to his con
versation with me, and think you will sa
| that it is altogether unjust to put him on tn
list of those who knowingly and willfull
joined the fraudulent association in question
| " j. =. BLACK.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-02
Second Day. Proceedings.

AT 1910 on the morning of the 23d
the Convention was called to order, and Rev
Charles w. Taylor, Coyington (Ky.) clergy
man, offered prayer.
The reading of the minutes were dispensed
with by unanimous consent.
Mr. Burke (Ind.) offered a resolution de-
clarng that the surviving soldiers of the Mex
lean War, and the widows and orphan chill
dren of soldiers deceased, are entitled to the
grateful recognition of the peope of the
United States, and Congress should
cause them to be placed on the pen
sion roll on the same footing with
solllers Of the war OF 1912 The Chairman
statI that this resolution would under the
order already adopted, go TO the Committee
| on Resolutions.
Mr. Martin (Del) presented the report of
| the Committee ON Permanent Organization,
but action thereon was deferred uatil the re-
port of the Committee on Credentials should
| be dis posed of.
Mr. Young (Ga.), Chairman of the Com
mittee on Credentials, then submitted
his report, recommending the seating of
all uncontested delegates; the seating
of both the Butler and Abbott delegations
| from Massachusetts, the two, united, to cast
the vote of the State; the denial of seats to
| the conlesting delegation from Pennsylvania,
| and the denial of admission to the Tammany
delegates from New York Mr.. Thomas (Kan,)
| presented a minority report in relation TO the
| New York delegates, and moved that it be
substituted for SO much of the majority re-
| port as related to that subject matter. This
| motion was debated at length by Messrs.
| Miller IN. ", Judge Amasa j. Parker IN.
! ", Governor Hubbard (rex.) and Westbrook
| On. W in favor OF substituting, and by
| " and Young (Ga.) against, and lost on a
! call of States by the following vote:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-02
Thel Back-Pay ClamOr.

The back-pay "charge" is as base
less as anything can be. Mr.. Garfield
voted against the amendment to the
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Appropriation bill providing for in
creased salaries in every form and at
every stage. But, when the amend
ment was tackled on in spite of him, he
voted for the whole bill, as Chairman of
the Appropriation Committee, being in
charge of it himself. In aspeech in the
House December 8, 1873, Mr.. Wilson,
of Indiana, said on this subject: q.
1t matters not how many years of faithful
service had been devoted TO the country, nor
how exalted character for integrity had been
builded up, this one act has been deemed an
unpaIdOnable crime. My distinguished friend
from Ohio tMr. Garhcldl, who struggled against
it until I'm a conference report which he had
resisted to the last IL was brought before the
House attached 70 one of the most important
appropriation bills, and then as all of us who
are familiar with the facts most confidently
believe (and it is but justice 10 say so here
voted for it in the conscientious discharge of
his duty to his country, has faIe no better
than any one else.
Mr.. Garfield was one of the first
members of Congress TO return back
pay and the most earnest advocate of
the bill repeating the increase. Speak
my III ISpl1 W AiOAduucI lcpncuS,
who advocated still higher salaries, Mr..
Garfield said:
One of the brightest and greatest men
know in this Nation, man who, perhaps has
done ms much for its intellectual life as any
other told me not many months ago that he
had made II the rule of his life to abandon any
intellectual pursuit the moment it became
commercially valuable; that others would uttl
iZe what he had discoveries; that his field OF
work was above the line Of commercial values,
and when he brought down the great truths OF
science from the upper heights to the level OF
COMMERCIAL values Il thousand hands would be
ready 10 take them and make them valuable In
the markets of the world.
A NOice-WhO was hep
Mr.. Garfield-lt was Agassiz. He entered
upon his great career, not for the salary II gave
him, for that was meager compal cd with the
pay of those in the lower walks OF life; but he
followed the prOmptings of his great nature
and worked for the love of truth and for the
| Il has peTyaded the lives of the great men who
| did so much to build up and maintain our Re
| publican institutions. Aud this spirit Il, IN
my Judgment, higher and wOrth,er than that
| which the gentleman from Georgia Nir ste
| phcnsl has described, To come immediately
| 10 the question before as, join in no crtmlna
| tions against those who used their right q
| vote and act differently from myself ON th
subject. But when the public says TO me, apt
| 20 those associated with me, that we have
under constitutional law, given Ourselve,
| moro pay than that public is willing TO gran
/ us, Il would be indelicate and indecent In "a
on such question 10 resist that publi'
| opinion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-02

vention proceed 70 the nomination OF n cam
didate for President A delegate from Mary
land moved to adjourn. This last motion was
almost unanimously voted down. The ques-
tion recurring on the motion Of Mr. Breckin-
ridge, that gentleman explained that he con-
templated only a call OF States for
the nomination of candidates, and the
motion prevailed. Mr.. Preston (Ky.)
moved that each person nominating a candi-
date have ten minutes for that purpose, and
this motion also prevailed. The call of States
for the nomination of Presidential candidates
was then ordered. Mr.. John +. McElrath
(Cal.) presented the name Of Justice J. s.
Field, OF California; Mr. George Gray DELI
presented the name of Thomas 4. Blyard, of
Delaware; Mr.. s. S. Marshall Ql.l presented
the name Of William X. Morrison Of Illinois;
Senator Voorhees, Und.l presented the name
OF Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana; NJ
John McSweeny (Ohio) presented the name
OF Allen G. Thurman, Of Ohio; Daniel
DOugherty pa presented the name of Gen
eral w. s Hancock, of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Hoadley (Ohlo) moved TO adjourn un-
til ten a. IN. on the 9th. A call Of States was
ordered and the motion was voted down by
ayes, 800; noes S05.
Mr.. Breckinridge tKy.) moved that the
Convention proceed to ballot for a candidate
for President. The motion prevailed, and a
ballot was taken with the following result:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-02
LATER NEWS.

IHE British Consuls, Armenian relief
Committees and American missionaries are
doing all in their power TO alleviate the mis-
cries of the famished population in Asia
Minor.
NEAR Paris, Stark County, Ohio, on
the night of the 25th ult,, Mrs. Keiser at
tempted TO kill William Zeigler and failing
she shot herself in the forehead, expiring al
most instantly. Cause, disappointed love.
A YAwL boat of the coast survey
steamer Bache, with fishing party, consist
ing of five persons, was struck and upset on
the 26th ult., in the lower harbor at Baltimore
by two barges and three of the party were
drowned.
DURING storm on the 26th ult. Will
lam Prinz ALI Jones aud John Ball, all col.
ored, working on farm near louisville, KY,
were killed by lightning. The remains were
found in field near tree under which they
had sought shelter
A GRAND union meeting of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of the
Mississippi and Missouri Valleys was held at
st. Louis on the 9th ult.
MORE French magistrates have re-
signed rather than execute the recent DEGREES
against the Jesuits and unauthorized congre-
cations.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch says the
commission, composed OF four BulgArians,
three Turks and three foreigners which in
yestigated the recent atrocities upon Mussul-
mans committed by the East Roumelian mill
tary find sixteen Mussulmans Killed, twelve
without a colorado preteXt, sixty cases OF
rape and much robbery. Four officers and
thirty-one privates were arrested.
The Cuban insurgent, Chief Limbano
Sanchez, has surrendered with thirty-three
officers, two hundred and ffty-four privdtes,
This surrender frees the province Of Santiago
de Cuba from insurgents.
THE Porte announces its intention OF
occupying the districts ceded to Montenegro
when the agitation among the Albanians has
subsidized, and of compensatlng Montenegro
for the expenses she haB incurred in connec-
tion with this matter.
The powers have heen considering
wnat compensation shall be offered Turkey
for the territory ceded to Greece. They have
decided this compensation shall consist In IA
cilitating Turkeys financial position, the
powers giving 1t their assistance and co-ope-
ration.
The Farmers & Mechanics Bank oi
st, Paul, Mimi, suspended on the 25th ult.
WHILE a salute was being fired at a
Democratic ratification meeting at Wheeling,
w. Va, on the evening Of the Goth ult., the
cannon burst, killing a man named Mccarthy
and boy named Nidert.
The Millers' International Exhibition
at Cincinnati closed on the 25th ult. It was
OF great interest to a large class OF people,
butpot of sufficient general interest to eoyei
expenses.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-02
GarneId's Record.

The Albany Journal summarizes it in
brief:
AT fourteen, he was at work at car
penter's bench.
At sixteen, he was boatman on the
Ohio Canal.
At eighteen, he was studying in the
Chester (O.) Seminary.
At twenty-one, he was teaching in one
of Ohio's common schools, pushing for
ward with his own studies at the same
time.
At twenty-three, he entered Williams
College.
At twenty-six, he graduated from
Williams with the highest honors Of bis
class.
At twenty-seven, he was tutor at
Hiram College, Ohio.
AT twenty. eight, he was Principal of
Hiram College.
AT twenty-nine, he was member of
the Ohio Senate-the youngest member
of that body.
At thirty, he was Colonel of the Forty
second Ohio Regiment.
At thirty-one, he was placed in COM
mand of a brigade, routed the Rebels
under Humphrey Marshall, helped Gen
eral Buell. in his fight at Pittsburg Land
ing, played prominent part in the siege
of Corinth and in the important move
ments along the Memphis u Charleston
Railroad.
At thirty-two, he was appointed Chief
of staff of the Army of the Cumberland,
participated in the campaigns in Middle
Tennessee and in the notable battle of
Chickamauga, and was promoted to the
rank of Major General.
At thirty-three, he was in Congress,
the successor of Joshua r. Giddings.
At forty-eight, having been contin-
uously in Congress since he was thirty
three, he was elected to the United
States Senate.
At forty-nine he was nominated for
the Presidency of the United States.
Such are the salient points in the his
tory of the man whom the Republicans
have selected as their standard bearer
in the present campaign. The simple
unadorned statement of his record con-
stitutes his strongest eulogy-goes the
furthest in commencing him to the cou-
fidence of his countrymen. There is
no anti-climax in his career 1t pro
ceeds from the humblest and most un-
propitious beginning step by step onward
and upward by arduous but honorable
paths. He is essentially product of
onr Institutions, man sprung from the
people, the incarnation of American
pluck, perseverance, self-reliance and
: intelligence. He is in the best sense of
, the word a self-made man. 1t has been
; said that "most self-made men worship
. their creators" But Garfield has no
such conceit. The trials of his early
days did not daunt him, nor have the
triumphs of his manhood turned his
, head. He is to-day what he has always
been, modest, unassuming, frank and
, unaffected; man of great and varied
resources, of thorough training and
large experience, full of sympathy for
the masses whose tolls he has shared,
full of love for the country which he
periled his life to help save and for
whose welfare he has steadily labored
every since his entrance in to Congress.
, The Democratic party can place no
, man in nomination who can make any
headway against the carpenter canaler,
teacher, soldier, statesman, James A.
Garfield.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-02

THE Convention reassembed at ten
o'clock on the morning of the oath, and thirty
minutes after was called to order. Rev.
Charles Taylor offered prayer.
Mr.. Peckham (N W announced that let
ter had been received from Mr.. Tiden re-
nouncing all claims upon the Convention for
a nomination Mr.. Peckham further said that
New York would thenceforward support Sam
uel j. Randall. A motion to read MIR. Tilden's
letter was lost.
Mr.. Thomas (Ky.) offered resolution de-
claring it unconstitutional to deprive any citi-
zen of the right of suffrage.
The roll call then proceeded for the second
ballot. Alabama cast IL votes for Hancock;
California followed with 5 for Hancock; Hi
nois cast her AZ votes for Hancock; Louis
lana, Maine and Michigan followed with their
votes for Hancock New York cast 20 votes
for Randall; Ohio, A votes for Thurman
New Jersey, Is votes for Hancock. Before
the vote was announced w sconsin asked per-
mission to change her vo'e to Hancock, and
there were afterward changes annount ed all
along the line. At length a delegate from
New Hampshire moved to make a new call
of the States. The motion quickly prevailed,
and the ballot resulted as follows:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-02
WSaie number Of yctc;. rs n;

Mr.. Mack (lnd) moved that The nomina-
tion of General Hancock be made unanimous.
Messrs, Randall (Pa.), Wallace (Pa), Hamp-
ton Is C.), Hoadley (Onio) and others spoke
to aud seconded the motion, and it was unau-
imously adopted. Upon the announcement
OF the vote, congratulatory speeches were
made by Senator Voorhees,, John Kelly and
others
Susan b. Anthony was here escorted TO the
stage and presented through the Chairman
an address TO the Convention in favor of leg
islation for woman suffrage.
The Committee on Resolutions submitted
the following platform, through Mr.. Waiter
son (ky), the Chairman, which was read and
unanimously adopted:
The Democrats of the United States, In Con-
ventiOn assembled, declare:
]. We pledge ourselves anew TO the Const-
tutional doctrines and traditions Of the Demo-
cratic party, as illustrated by the teaching and
example OF long line of Democratic states
men and patriots, and embodied in the plat
form of the last National Convention of the
2. Opposition to centrallzatlon and TO that
dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends
to consolidate in one, and thus to create what
ever the form OF government, real des-
potism.
8. No sumptuary laws; separation of Church
and State for the good of each, and common
schools fostered and protected.
4. Home rule, honest money, consisting OF
gold and silverand paper convertible into coin
ON demand; the strict maintenance of the
public faith State and National, and tariff for
s. The subordnatlon of the military TO the
civil power and a genuine and thorough re-
form of the Civil Service.
g. The right TO a free ballot is right pre-
servative of all rights, and must and shall be
maintained in every part of the United states.
The existing Administration is the represent
alive of a conspiracy only, and it's claim of
7 right TO surround the ballot-boxes with troops
aud Deputy Marshals 10 intimidate and OBJ
struct the Electors, and the unprecedented
use Of the veto TO maintain its corrupt and
despotic powers, insult the people and imperil
Their institutions.
Z. We execrate the course of this Admins
tration in max ing places in the Civil Service
reward for political crime ana demand u
reform by statute which shall make il forever
impossible FOR dett ated candidate to brbe
his way to the seat of a usurper by billeting
Villains upon the people.
false count OF the Electoral votes of two
States, the candidate defeated at,the polls was
declared 20 be Pi esidenL and Tor the first
time in American history the will Of the peo-
pie was set aside under threat of military
violence. struck a deadly blow at our system
OF representative government The Demo
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-02
WEST AMI sOIrTH.

ANattempt was made to kidnap BERTHE
Sherman, aged twelve years, while returning
from school near Milwaukee, Wis, on the
23d. A farmer came to his assistance when
the men escaped The boys parents are
wealthy and the kidnapping was for the pur-
pose of securing reward for the return of
the child.
The American Protestant Association
convened at Wheeling, w, Va, on the 23d
with full attendance of delegates
THE census just taken in Boston shows
a population Of about 352,O ZOO. Complete re-
turns show the population of Chicago to be
4,40i
ssEX-TREAsURER OTTo of Santa Cruz
County, Cal, convicted of embezzling public
funds, has been sentenced to five years in the
Iententiary.
THE Michigan Republican State Con-
vention will be held at Jackson August 5.
THE Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
decided that option contracts, where It can
be proved that there is no intention 10 deliver
the goods contracted for, are unlawful, and
fall within the provisions Of the Wisconsin
Gambling act.
GEORGE L. MANN, Gustave A. Ohr and
John Sammitt, aged sixteen, seventeen and
eighteen, respectively, were hanged at Canton,
Ohio, on the 25th, for murders committed last
year.
HAYDEN Brown, who murdered his
wife's mother over year ago, was hanged at
Huntsville, Mo-, on the 25th.
A REVENUE posse in attempting the
ofu DaA nal o.
recently, was resisted. One moonshiner was
killed and one mortally wounded
GENERAL GRANT, it is reported, is
goingto Englandupon visit to his daughter.
WILLIAMSON, negro, who murdered
an old man near Caseyville, Ind, on the 25th
ult., was taken from the jail at Morgansfield
and hanged on the night of the 25th ult.
d CAPTAIN BoGARDUs has proposed
taking team of wing shots to England next
spring Ia KS t..t.
A wRECKING train and freight train
on the Vandalia Railroad collided about six
miles from st. Louis on the 26th ult. Alonzc
Wood, a fireman on the freight engine, and
Thomas Beasley, a blacksmith, riding on the
tender of the wrecking train, were instantly
killed. Ten others were severely injured, two
or three probably fatally
The Kiowa, Comanche and Apache
chiefs ask an enlargemento Of the school facil
Ties that more of their children may partlei
pate in the educational advantages
SOME striking workmen IN the saw,
mills near Jacksonville, Fla, came in collision
With special policemen on the 25th ult. About
twenty shots were exchanged, wonnding thre,
strikers and one policeman. The fight wal
renewed the next morning, when some Of the
strikers were severely dubbed and one police
man-woupded by-a shot. tHfrr r-
The National Convention of Irish Re
pubHcans, called to meet in Indiana July IA
has been postponed till the end of August.
THOMAS b. Hopper was hanged al
Greenfield, Mo-, on the 25th ult., for the mur
der Of Samuel c. Ham on the 9th of las
August. Hopper protested his innocence t.
the last. f
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-02

New York was excused from voting at her
own request The question recurring on the
adoption Of the ma lority report it was adopt
ed by AN almost unananimous "a Ooes vote
Mr. Wilson wv Na) moved that all con-
testing delegates be admitted TO the Conven-
ton as spectators. Carried.
The report OF the Committee on Permanent
Organization, recommending that ex-Gov-
ernor Stevenson, of Kentucky, be appointed
Permanent Chairman of the Convention,
with one Vce-Presldent from each State and
the usual number OF Secretaries, was then
adopted, and Mes.Ts Mcdonald lInd), But
Ter Is. o. anil O'ConnCr (renn.) We're APP
pointed a committee to conduct Governor
Stevenson to the Chair. On assuming the
gayel the Chairman delivered a spirited aud
interesting address Of thapks and congratu-
iati0n.
A delegate from Kentucky moved that a
vote OF thanks be rendered TO Judge Hoad-
ley for the able and impartial manner In
which he had presided over the preliminary
proceedings OF the Convention. The motion
prevailed, and Judge Hoadley responded in a
pleasant vein. =
Mr.. Breckenridge lKy) moved that the Con
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-02

Intelligent readers may Judge wheth-
er Mr.. Garfield, in his speech, exhibited
the spirit of a salary-grabber or a sor-
did'politician. He spoke simply as he
had acted all his life through. He has
not been money-maker. He has not
made money. Spite of his great abili-
ties as lawyer and a literary man, he
is one of the poorest public men in the
Nation, and at the same time one of the
most frugal, Industrious and temperate.
-IotOd State Register.