Year: 1869

Alabama-Politico- temperance.


A Washington correspondent of
the Cleveland Herald of the 17th
instant, says:


Does Mr.. Summers speech mean
war? is the startling question now
undergoing discussion here. The
interest in this discussion is not di-
minished by the fact that the author
of that important manifesto, is
known to have declared it the most
pacific speech the question admitted
of, nor by the fact, known to all the
world, that Mr.. Sumner is regarded
as the most friendly to the British
nation of any man in the American
Senate. 1t is easy to discern under
the surface of that smooth diplo-
matte manner maintained by the
Chairman of the Committee on For.
eign Relations that he has weighed
well his words and expects the
country and the world to understand
the irresistible logic of his utter
ances. Without attempting an anal
ysis of this remarkable speech,
which stands recorded as expressing
the sentiments of Senate perfectly
united, with a single and insignif-
cant exception, we can but allude to
one obvious conclusion deducible
from its premises, viz: that the
legal and equitable account on Uncle
Sans day-book against his relative,
John Bull, is such as will never be
liquidated in pounds sterling OF
dollars and cents. AS Mr.. Sumner
has spoken as the exponent of the
views of General Grant, and the
majority, at least, of his Cabinet,
may we not be permitted to indulge
in guess that schemes of terrific
rial expansion may be hereafter
connected with negotiations for the
settlement not only of the "Alabama
claims" but of our national dam.
ages resulting from the perfdious
policy of Great Britain of which
the Alabama operations were only
a small branch. +ia-r. e45 5.s6


The ex-rebels and their MANY
sympathiZers here and in the South
will rejoice at the news that a polit-
ical temperance convention has beer
organized in the Buckeye State
They comprehend, the importance
to their cause of being able to re
sumo operations in the politica
field at an early day with some
show of success. They are not SC
i'll advised as to political affairs as
to fear that any of their Democratic
friends in the Buckeye State will
forswere party allegiance for any
such porpose as to put Temperance
men in office. Whatever success
the political temperance convention
has, must of course consist in the
diversion of votes to it's ticket that
wherever they might otherwise go
could in no event be had for the
Democracy. The importancet to the
opposition of starting the tide of s
political reaction by electing :
Democratic legislature in Ohio next
fall, is fully appreciated by the party
leaders, and they must feel pro
found satisfaction in viewing the
positions of their new allies. Tho
Temperance political party has beer
such splendid success in Cleveland
that it is not surprising that when
it enlarges the sphere of it's opera
tions to include the entire State
there should be joy in the Demo
cratic household. Every effort is
to be made. every device employed
and every kind of strategy resortec
to by the Democracy to secure the
next Ohio Legislature, and if posi-
BILE to elect Governor and Stats
officers. To accomplish this the
leading managers would even sur
render for the time the party name
and take a political nondescript
whoes chief capital consists in {
batch of windy politico -temperencs
speeches, a fractional term in Con
gress, and some extraordinary
fulminations on finance and the la
Dor questions-General Carey, il
short. But the clique who contro
in Hamilton county have not tht
power to control in the State a
large. They will be overruled il
the State Convention, and that al
the more easily now that some hop,
of party success is awakened by thu
political diversion said to be backet
by organized secret lodges through
out the State. 1t IS needless tx
comment at present on these facts
there will be room enough for tina
in the approaching campaign il
your State, when most vigorou
effort will be made by the party o
reaction to secure a verdict agains
President Grants administration.


A SENSATION has been created il
New Albany, Ind, by. DR.. P. b