Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-19
8aiIp &ennebse Juurual.
Augusta, Tuesday Morning, April 10.
Whited Sepulchres.

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new in Southern States. There is not a
State in the South which is not tainted
with reputation. There is no need of
going back to their Confederate money
and Confederate bonds to show how they
have cheated their creditors their history
since the rebellion closed abounds in in
stances of reputation. If the Bourbons
OF that section are as much opposed to re-
pudiation as their hatred Of Malone sug-
gests, their embrace OF it in times past is
quite surprising.
Even the State OF Ben Hill, the Senator
from Georgia. who is so shocked at Ma
hone as a repudiationist that he would an
initiate HIM if he could, is deep in repu-
diation of a recent date. At the close Of
the war the debt of that State amounted
to $5.706. 900. Under the republican adj
ministTation there was great demand for
the building of new railroads. and as there
was little capital in the State the govern
ment issued bonds to companies to aid in
building tho needed railways to a large
amount. The total amount OF debt thus
contracted says the Toibune, twas
@6.683,OOO To this amount should be
added S4OO, 900 Endorsed by Provisional
Governor jenkins in 1866. making the
amount of Endorsed railroad debt at the
close of the republican administration
a. kaI Lanv,
loaned to the Brunswick and Albany Rail
road State bonds amounting to 81 500, 900
on security amounting to 81, 100000"
When the democrats came into power
in the State they went to work at once to
repudate the whole of this debt, and all
the more willingly because the most of
the money had been borrowed in the
North and the bonds were held there.
The first democratic legislature which
met, in 1871. passed law forbidding the
payment of interest on any bonds issued,
negotiated or Endorsed by the State since
July 4, 1868, until after the report of a
legislative committee. That committee
recommended the adoption of constitu-
tional amendment declaring null and void
over -, 900. 900 of the public debt. The
amendment was adopted by the Legisla-
ture and ratified at an election at which
the greater part of the republican vote
was suppressed by terrorism and fraud
This is the State whose Bourbon Sena-
tor in Congress will have nothing to do
with Malone because rs he (HilD avows
the Virginian is a repudiator, and no
Bourbon Senator in all the South is per-
.nitted under pain of accommodation
from the Bourbon ranks or worse to make
any pair with Malone. What a nice set
of gentlemen these Bourbon regulators
Of the South are to read others out of the
ranks of honesty, when they themselves
are tar deeper in the mire of dishonesty
than the man whom they prosecute ever
dreamed of going. Let them clear their
own skirts of filth before they charge
others with being defled
The scandalous reports which have been
published in some papers concerning SEN
ator Conkling and Mrs. Hayden of Port
Byron. n Y. are denied in a commumn-
cation by Hon. John N. Knapp of Auburn
to the New York Times. He says the
whole of these reports from beginning to
end are wicked. detestable fabrication. -"
Mrs. Hayden makes statement in which
she declares that she ''has never known
or met Senator Conkling. nor had any
correspondence with him. by letter or
otherwise during the whole course of his
life." The man who would fabricate and
publish such ISLANDERS ought to join the
perjurer in the Morey letter business in
the State penitentiary.
The prompt return of two women of
bad character 10 Switzerland. by our
government. has excited considerable
comment by the Swiss press. Most of the
leading journals condemn the action of the
Swiss Commune and sustain cur officials
for sending the INNING grants back to their
native land. The most influential paper
in Switzerland, however. the Journal dc
Generc. looks upon the United States as a
kind Of reformatory institution tor the
special protection the outcasts OF Europe.
and iustifies the sending of the Bottstein
women to this country.
The latest statistics upon the great tex
tile staple of the country, form signih-
cant commentary upon the new system of
free labor, contrasted with the slave-whip-
ped cotton of the old regime. The receipt
of cotton at the great market ports. for the
past months, is unprecedented. 1t is now
quite certain that the cotton crop of 1850
in this country. reaches the enormous ag-
gregate of 6. Az 900 bales. while the indi-
cations point to still larger production
in 1891.
A delegation of republicans from Vir-
ginia called upon President Garfield Fri
day and protested against the recognition
of Senator Malone and his party of read
justers by the administration. The dele
CATION declared there could be no harmo-
nv or amalCamatiou between the two par