Year: 1877

Kansas City Times: Ii is amusing to be-
hold radical congressman throwing them
selves into the last ditch in defense of state
sovereignty and state rights as represented
by the foulest of all state wrongs, the usurp-
ing Louisiana returning board.


Boston Post: 1t is a comfort to know that
Mr.. Wheeler felt in full sympathy with Mr..
Haves the moment their hands clasped.
This electric fusion of soul, as each man stood
gazing into the eyes of the other at the rail-
road station and feeling every inch presi-
dent tby the grace of the Louisiana return
ing board J must have been a sight for gods
and the hackmen.


Nashville American; A coIored meeting
in the north recently resolved that 1.-The ne
gro is forbidden to form any alliance with
the democracy" They did not intend il
but they very tersely told the exact truth
The power of q new master has forbidden
and constrains more harshly than ever the
old master. and bulldozes the unfortunate
who does transgress the command


New York World: The successful forgery
on the New York Life insurance company
raises a question about our current methods
of doing business If We insist upon doing
it rapidly we run the risk of doing il reck-
lessly. A man whose business is 80 i'm
portant that he can not send few squares
TO ask about a check for S64 900 offered TO
him by stranger should be doing a very
large business indeed.


Washington Union: This is passing
strange, that the confident Chandler, the
childhke Chandler, should be 30 embar-
rassed after answering one question as to
hesitate about responding to kindred and
inseparable interrogatory, and also require
three working days and one Sabbath day to
reply. The safest plan for Mr.. Chandler to
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ion of the law which relieves man of the
disagreeable obligation of determination


Baltimore Gazette: One of the most dis
gustipg characteristics of the republican
party is that outrage and bloodshed consti-
tute its nutriment and sustain its vitality.
The Chambers and Mortons rejoice with the
JOY OF ghouls over accounts of the killing of
negroes, and investigations are managed not
to ascertain the truth but TO accumulate
political capital; and what an amazing sort
of political capital it is. If they can show
that a republican administration fails to
protect life and property, to repress disorder
and enforce the laws, that is assumed TO be
an argument for maintaining that corrupt
and Inefficient administration.


Detroit Free Press: The statement that
the Lake Shore railroad company proposes
to regard the breakage of the Ashtabuia
bridge as an ''act of God" !" and to refuse
therefore all payment Of claims for damages,
lends new aspect to calamity which star
tied a continent. It is unquestlonably in
the power of the company by its refusal to
put claimants to great cost in making and
establishing their claims. and the prospect of
such cost will undoubtedly deter many from
bringing suit. 1t is to be hoped however
that somebody will have spirit and means
enough to contest this soulless plea of the
railroad corporation and secure a judicial
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dent was inevitable" or not


st. Louis Republican: Adding Chamber
iain's unwilling testimony TO Col Hunts
official report, and the republican plot is
clearly revealed. The administration
leagued with Chamberlain to carry the state
for the republican ticket by promulgating
audacious falsehoods as an excuse for mill
tary interference. There was no insurrec-
ton, no disturbance whatever; Yet this car
petbag governor was able to garrison South
Carolina with federal soldiers, and when
beaten at the polls had these same to uphold
his usurpation. 1t is a record of infamy
from beginning to end; and yet the republi-
can party support 1T, applaud Grant for his
share OF the work and proclaim Chamber
lain a martyr in 1.-The cause of God and hu-
manity." When will this wretched farce be
played out, and the actors in il hissed of the
stage?


Charleston News and Courier: With the
indignant query of the Richmond Dispatch
before our eyes, What kind of southern
men oppose the bill?' we are loath TO say
that the new Pacific railroad bill, in our
humble judgment. is worse than the old. To
main line Of 200 are tracked |, go miles of
branches, whose partial entire uselessness
we have snown- The government is asked
to guaranty per cent. interest on bonds to
the amount Of s3e 000, 900 for the main line
and s37, 900, 900 for the branches, and as
sumes an annual liability for interest Of
nearly four million dollars This is big
haul. To the proposition 70 guaranty the
bonds for the main line from Fort Worth TO
Fort Yuma we might give, and will Try to
give. a qualified support: but the branches
we can not-stand, unless the democratic pol
icy is TO go in for the Old f1ag-and an ap-
Dropliatson-'-