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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29

Mr. L. b. Loring. of Boston. called on
President Hayes on Tuesday, in company
with Senator Hoar, and presented me
MORALS from nearly all the Grand Army
posts in the Department of Massachu-
sets, urging Congressional action to pro-
vide such legislation as may be nee, "a
ry to secure speedy settlement of the.
pensions claims now pending in the Pen
sion Office. III it We're not ST. near the
end of the present Congress there would
be probability of something being done
both to relieve the overburdened Pension
Office and to enact preventive Legislation
against fraudulent pension claims.
The TACT that about SIS, 900. 600 will be
required to meet pension deficiencies for
the current year revives the talk of
frauds committed against the Govern
ment and against worthy applicants for
pensions. The present system is ac-
knowledged by everybody. except the
claim agents. to be a very faulty one.
The following story. which is said to be-
tr;'e in every essential particular. is told
as an example of the frauds which are
possible under the present system:
\ gallant lrishman served during the
war in New England regiment. and
when the war was over lett the service
in as sound condition as when lie entered
it. A few years later he became a Fenan
and served as an officer in the Fenian
Army which crossed the border at
ST. Adams to invade Canada. In the ex-
posture incident to that bloody campaign
the IriShman contracted the govt. from
which it is said he has suffered more or
less since. When the Averages of Pen
Sions law was enacted. the lrshman con
crived the happy thought of applying for
a pension. He got up lbs evidence with
great care, SO that there should be no
flaw in it. and sent his application to
Washington. The evidence appeared IT,
be sufficient and conclusive and the pen
sion was granted. The Fenian received
arrearages amounting, it is said, to sever,
al Thousand dollars. How many other
pensioners now on the rnlls incurred
their disabilities while serving i'll the
ranks of the Feniau Army is not known.
Concerning the cost Of the Arrears acts
Commissioner Bentley says:
As near as can be ascrrtained before
actual settlement there We're 40. 155 pen
siqGers already on the rolls when the acts
were passed caGh q, Whom Was entitled
under thei. proviSiGnStu q greater or less
sum as arrears; 1891 of these claims
had been adjusted on the lst Of Novem-
her last nj the average rate Of $780,
1910. (The average was set in my
annual report 1890 ut 556059 through a
clerical error The arrears due the Is
135 pensioners will reach so. 293. 96:l. GG.
or the first payment. made to new pen
sioners during the period from January
%. 1879. to jun 81. 1 $50 81 S2l. 81
is ehargeable to the Arrears acts. On
the 30th OF June last there were 232, 597
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Mr.. Beecher's Stepmother.

Ny own mother died when | was three
years old. and | had to make her in inn
agination. My fathers second wife was
u beautiful and cultivated woman, but
she had no demonstrative affection.
do not remember that ever once ran tn
her when was in trouble, though | ran
away from her good many times. !
never buried my head in her lap. al
ways expected criticism. She was the
mother of my clothes and of my food
but never the mother of my heart. |
used to long for a mother that had a
bosom, built that with nv magma
ton. Her praying never produced any
more effect on ne than i fake of snow
upon slate roof. 1t did afteryard
when | was nine or ten wears old. used
to be afraid of hell and the devil. 70.
ministers used to scare children. The
child that really and deeply loves its
mother will not get away from her.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29

anniversary OF the Young Mems Chris
tian Association, in New York, on Mon
day last, could be read the country over.
Professor Dwight, of the Columbia Law
School, had already pointed out the evil
of class churches. when DR.. Hall rose to
speak. and had also expressed his salts
faction at seeing rich and poor kneel side
by side in the cathedrals of Europe with
the evident feeling of being perfectly at
home.
DIR. Hall says Roger Williams first
struck the keynote of this Republic in
declaring the doctrine of pnre democ-
racy. the principle OF a practical broth
erhood. The people of the United States
are vet cropping il the dark around this
fundamental truth. and there is still
among us a tendency toward the feudal-
ism of the Old World. The theory that
there is no true nobility but that of char
acter. and that such nobility. not birth
~ riches. must be the test of merit in
this Republic, is not yet understood and
accepted as it must be if this nation en-
dures and fuliills its rightful destiny.
Or. Hall says he has seen rich and poor
together in American churches as Prof
Dwight has in foreign cathedralS, but
the rich were masters and the poor were
slaves. The proudest aristocrat in the
Republic. he says, would not object to
placing his lips to communion cup
which the lips of 4 negro have Just
touched. if that negro were his slave:
hut the question whether the negro and
the white man shall taste that cup to-
gether as equals involves a principle
which is shaking even the political tirma-
ment at Washington. FeudalSm is in
implacabe hostility to the principle that
must dominate American sentiment. IL
the Republic is to survive; the condo
>cension Of the rich - the poor will not
meet the cXigencies of the age: nothing
but a practical brotherhood of men will
satisfy the condition OF our national grall-
deur.
Dr. Hall, and Prof Dwight as well.
condemns the spirit of the churches which
delight to be called fashionable and ex-
elusive as not Christian. but feudal and
pharisaical. The preacher of an miluen-
tial congregation, he announces himself
is one of the common people. explaining
his meaning to be that he recognizes the
worth of an honest, Industrious man.
wherever found. and greets all such as
brothers. He says free churches are fail
ures because they are Il condeScenslon OF
the rich to the poor, an impossible sub
>titute for the recognition OF tile equality
OF man with man upon the plane OF char
acter. He looks upon the worship OF
wealth and birth and rank i'll our churches
as sacrilege and believes that Christian
ity will regain its early power over men
when its proiessed adherents abandon
the false theories of feudaisn and return
to the principle of true democracy as set
forth in the life and teachings of the
Founder of their faith.
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that i'll 1928 Tammany Hall took the wind
out of the sails of the Clintonian party
! by making Gen. jackson, an avowed
i Clintonian, its candidate, l determined
| that the adversary should not steal our
thunder second time. Therefore call
! ed meeting of an impromptu general
| been doing good Republican work in this
city several years.
| He gives the names of fifty or sixty
well-known Republicans, who met and
adopted Mr.. Weeds programme. Mr..
Weed did the rest of the job himself
He says:
lin the evening papers of that day
Gen. Grant arrival at Long Branch was
announced. Immediately took the boa,
for that place, and after breakfast, on
Sunday morning, invited Gen. Grant to
smoke his cigar in my room. | then
greatly surprised the General by inform
ing him that he would be nominated for
President at Republican meeting to be
held in New York, on the following Mon
day evening, and that the proceedings
would be presented to him by the chair
IuOtl vi luS lletIiIS, WI. HoHioS 4ipi
ply. AS | had known Gen. Grant at
Wizards Hotel during the Rebellion.
the canvass and it's results were freely
and frankly talked over for an hour. |
informed the General with what aston
ishment and incredulity Gen. Taylor lis
tened to the first suggestion of his name
for President. | also reminded him that
a grateful country had rewarded Wash
inston, jackson, Harrison and Taylor
for the distinguished services rendered i'll
our several wars, and that history was
about to repeat itself in his case.
added that happily he need not person
ally trouble himself about the election.
that he had done his work with the bay
onet. and that the people would do theil
work with the ballot, concluding with
the remark that he would take the PreSl-
dental chair unencumbered, free to dis
charge it's responsible duties with an eye
single to the prosperity and welfare OF
the people and country.
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THE new Administration and the next

THE new Administration and the next
Hengress are not likely to go to sleep for
ITant of important public questions to
occupy their attention. A long list of
such questions might be made out Here
are a few that will occur to every one
who keeps track of current ne wspaper
discussion: Interoceanic Transit, embrac-
ing the railway and canal plans; the I'm
Trovement of the Mississippi River;
Government Telegraphy: the Revival of
American Ocean Commerce; the Exter-
-nination of Polygamy in Utah; the Erec-
ton Of New States from our Western
Territories; the Silver question. including
rHorts at International Bimetallism and
The abandonment of the short-weight
collar; Postal Savings Banks; Consti-
tntionai Amendment authorizing a
National Marriage and Divorce Law; an
amendment providing way to force Re-
validating States to pay their debts; a
Revision of the Tariff to simplify and
improve the Protective System; the
strengthening of the Federal Election
Laws SO as to protect the rights of all
citizens to- a free ballot and fair count.
20 these we may add Reapportionment
and Reminding in case these matters are
not disposed of by the present Congress.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29
TIE cARPET-BAG IN CONGRESS.

Although by no means so often as
few years ago, we still too frequently
come across the epithet - carpet-baggers
in the news papers, particularly III Jour
nails of the Southern States and of Dem
ocratic proclivities. If there is any an
gument in so senseless cry it is that no
man has right to get up i'll the world
anywhere except in the place where he
was born. 1t is the lowest sediment OF
the State right idea-an idea severely
Knocked in the head by the war of the
rebellion, and yet not hard enough to en-
tirely knock its brains out.
If carpet baggers were really as odiousS
as the sneer would imply, one would nat
urally expect the people to be careful not
to send the odious reptile, or whatever
insect the bugbear may be, to represent
them in the highest Les islativc assembl.
in the nation-presuming, of course, that
we are nation. Yet study of solid
facts shows that however blatant the
below may be, there are swans of car
et-baggers actually sent to Congress;
not merely from new States who may
possibly lack means to do otherwise, but
from the Southern States, where the
hatred of such vermin amounts to a
social and political mania. The slave
holding States before the rebellion were
fifteen in number. They now send 80
Senators and 106 representatives to Con-
gress. Only two of these States send ex-
clusively native-born, Delaware and
South Carolina. All the Senators and
representatives from Arkansas are carpet
baggers; so are seven Of Alabama's ten.
Florida has one native in four members.
Georgia has one carpet-bagger. Kentucky
two. Louisiana seven and only one native
Maryland one carpet Dagger, Mississippi
six out Of eight, Missouri about half Of
each breed, North Carolina one Dagger.
Tennessee one. Texas her whole eight
not a native in the lot-and Virginia two.
Thus We find As carpet-baggers coming
as Senators and representatives from the
States whose people are never weary of
abusing people not born under their
noses. What Horace Greeley denounced
as ''shreks of locality are not SO much
heard in the North. though by no means
unknown. In the Northwest cry against
carpet baggers would be ridiculous.
States in that section are not old enough
to have native born timber for Congress
men. Colorado. Iowa. Kansas. Mime
sofa, Nebraska. Nevada. Oregon, Wis,
consin and all the Territories except New
Mexico are without q single native-born
Senator or representative. The entire
number of Senators, Congressman and
delegates from Territories is $40. of whom
200 own up to having been born at home
and the other 116 are of the odious breed
stigmatized as carpet baggers.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29
THE WORSHIP OF WEALTHIN OUR
CHURCHES.

ers are rearing splendid church edifices.
and carrying into the organization Of all
denominations the pretentious social dis
tinctions which money confers upon it's
possessors, and which exclude the poor
from che privileges of the sanctuary; when
the sincerely religious are seeking an
explanation of the fact so much deplored
that there is a general decline in church.
going, it would be well for the whole
body Of protesting Christians, if the ad-
mirable address delivered by Dr.. Hall,
the well-known Brooklyn divine, at the
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29
MADE New Again"
St. CIiharines, Ont.

St. Cdtharines, Ont.
Il. V. Pierce. VI. d.:
have used Your Favorite Prescription,
Golden Medical discovery and Pleasant
Purgifive Pellets, 10: The last three months
and find MYSELF what shall | say)-
made new agiin, are the only words that
express il. | WAS reduced 20 Il skeleton
could not walk across he floor without
tainting, cnuid keep nothing in the shape of
food GA my stomach. Myself and friends
had given up ali hope, my immediate death
seemed certain. | can ncN er 1T. too thank
ful TO 10 wlo r.co nmendtd your meti-
'l,IrS, FOR NOW live Go The surprise OF every
bNdE) and am able To do my own work.
desire To make this statement in order thai
those suffering r!ay not despair until they
have your remedies Il trial.
Yours respectfully,
Mrs. VIM. ID. Ryckman.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29

THE Senatorial dead lock in the Ten
nessee Lesi Stature ended on Wednesday.
on the thirt;eth ballot. when Howell E..
Jackson, State Credit Democrat. was
elected L. S. Senator by the following
vote: Jackson, 10; Maynard. 25: Rose /.
When Jackson was declared elected his
friends lifted him out Of his scat and es-
corted him to the Speakers stand, where
he made n speech. i'll which he said that
he would do whatever lay in his power
20 allay all sectional agitation and brin.
prosperity to the country. He would not
only represent the State but the United
States in the broadcast sense of the word. -
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29

SENATOR MALONE and Representative
\. Fl. Stephens are the physical light
weights of Congress; both together do
not weigh over 100 pounds. Alabama
once sent representative to Washington
who weighed Gin body more than four
times as much as Stephens. The one was
bulk without brains, the other is brains
without bulk.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29
a PRESIDENT MAKERS REVEAL
TONS.

Thurlow Weeds story of the manner
10 which Gen. Grant '.became Repub-
lean instead of Democratic candidate
for President" in the ". y Tribune, is
Exceedingly interesting, as are all Of the
Irminiscences of the man who has weld
al greater political lower, out of Office,
KAN any one has, in this country, who
HIS held Office. Mr. Weed says that,
before the President al canvass opened,
he
Learned that Dean Richmond, Peter
a'agger and Cornelius Wendell, the sue
esssors Of the Albany Regency, wiser
> 'aaai ocratic leaders than those who sue
'ctedtea them, were quietly preparing the
Way fes Gen. Grants nomination. 1t was
generally understood that while Gen.
t'rant had not been prominent politi-
riau he acted before the rebellion with
the Democratic party. Remembering
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29

60 To the land where the weary are at rest,
Where the msurner looks up and is glad,
Where the soul puts off i'll the place of its
birth
The stains it had gathered in This
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29

THE agitation for Governmental action
against cattle plaques has resulted in a
BILL reported yesterday in the Senate, to
in the Department of Agriculture. The
head of the Bureau is to be competent
veterinary surgeon, and authority is
given for the purchase and slaughter of
diseased animals.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29

If ATHEISTS who do not believe in the
existence of God would note how often
and how freely that Beings name is used
by the small boy of the period, they
might change their views. Children do
not usually talk Of ideal personages; but
the name of the Creator is even more
familiar in their mouths than household
words. Their profanity is awful.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29

GENERAL. LoGAN's bill for retiring Gen
eral Grant is for the session virtually set
aside, although it may meet with better
success from the next Congress. His
friends have determined that he shall be
well cared for. and will not accept all in
definite postponement as positive defeat.
Senator Lamar is accredited with having
made a manly, eloquent speech in sup
port of the bill for putting Grant on the
retired list. In SO doing the Senator ex
pressed the sentiments of many persons,
liberal provision ought thus be made for
that illustrious commander of the Union
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29
The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich.

Will send their celebrated Electro Noitaic
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Speedy cures guaranteed. They mean what
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world. Mr.. Nennnr and some other people
persist in having their own way aud things
generally are drifting u the wrong end. 1t
anybody has any money, and wants to huy
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end of the contract every time. REESE.
- WITWoRTH, corner Main and Bridge
streets, has on hand Il splendid assortment
of Skates of all kinds at low prices.
~ Blankets closing cut at cGSt for cash;
S!r,w!S closing out ii cost for cash: Wool
Skirts closing out at cost.
T. DEESNES
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29

THE ninth Intellectual ballot for United
States Senator. taken in joint convention
of the Pennsylvania Legislature at Har-
risburg yesterday. resulted as follows:
Wallace, Sc; Oliver, So: Grow, 81;
Hewitt, 4: McNeagh. 3; scattering. 5.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29

THE President on Wednesday, nomi-
mated Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, to be
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Of the United States in place of Swayne,
resigned. Recognized as purely person.
al appointment, it is not received with
favor by the country.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-29

THE statement of Commissioner Bent
ley with reference to pension frauds
should at once open the eyes of Congress
to the fact that the Pension Laws as they
now stand are invitations to fraud, which
should be so amended as to do no injustice
10 honest and deserving pensioners.