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Year: 1879

THE majority of the Southern leaders
want the rights of individual States in
some things but not in others When 1t
comes to the public treasury they want as
much and even more, for local improve
ments, than the loyal people of the North
and West Had they the power they would
evidently spend millions Of the public
money in the Mississippi levees where the
next food would leave naught to mark the
spot where the money was expended. We,
however, are glad to see them acknowledge
the General Government in some things
even though they be little inconsistent in
making their demand, and we hope that
they will receive fair share of the public
money for internal improvements of n ma
| tional character, but not one cent for any
private schemes that would only benefit in
dividuals or contribute solely to the ad-
vancement of the State Rights idea. As
! companions interested in a common govern
ment we will share with them generously,
but for measures robbing the public treas
ury for the Lost Cause" idea we will not
share one cent, but on the contrary will op-
pose them to the utmost Of our ability and
strength.
Year: 1879

IT is represented that we have Demo-
cratic majority in both branches of Con-
gress. Legally, or as to mere external form
of law, we have, and in this respect 1t is n
fact that cannot he denied; but morally we
have no more right to grant this than we
would TO admit that some thief is n rich man
simply because he happens to have much
stolen money in his possession. This So
called, and, to all practical purposes Demo-
cratic majority, is an insult to the great
Republic and to the moral justice of the
age. Yet here we are in the position that
the earnest Republicans have repeatedly
ioretold would, under the doctrine of the
"genteel" and conservative class, come to
pass The class of men at the North and
South who instituted the rebellion have
earnestly labored for peace (?) and share
in the administration of the Government
that they sought to destroy, and they
promise all sorts of happy results if they
can again be put in charge of the Gov
ernment, and threaten all sorts of mis-
chief if deprived of this honor; and all
the while they proclaim how good
they will be, that they will bury the past
and strive only for the public good. But
they no sooner get possession than they put
their best efforts forward to trample upon
all those laws that were necessitated by
their rebellious actions and force all the
Lost Cause" ideas possible into the minds
Of the people at large. Claiming honesty
they have resorted to the most contempti-
bic dishonesty and stupendous frauds in Or
der to hold the power of Legitimate maiorites
in both Houses of Congress. This is re-
markable era in the history of our Govern
ment We hope that it will not he cstab-
lished rs q precedent worthy to be followed,
but that the "baleful clouds" that now
hang over us may at last reveal to the loyal
people of the land the condition that toe
confiding nature has brought us to, and
that they will read wisdom in this that
their actions may be guided by better
sense in the future.
Year: 1879

There is in this city one of the most
remarkable boys in the whole world, prob
ably. He is son of Col. Fuller, ex-
Postmaster of Bangor, and is now 10
years of age. His intellect is perfectly
wonderful, and almost goes beyond belief.


The first that his friends noticed of his
precocity was about a year ago, when
they accidentally discovered that he was
almost infallible on any date he had ever
seen or heard. lie was out West with
his parents at the time, and as ne was
walking in company with some relatives
in a cemetery, they observed that he
would look at tombstone, read the date
of the death recorded, and the exact age
of the person buried there, and then
glance up and tell what day of the week
the dead person was born on.


This happened on several occasions,
and but little attention was paid to it
Finally, however, one Of his relatives
took pains TO look at an old almanac COW
ering some of the dates he had mentioned,
and found that the day of the week had
been correctly given in every instance.
This caused them to ask him questions,
when it was discovered that he could al
most instantly tell the day of the week
on which any date within the last 10
years fell. Only yesterday the writer
gave the lad dates away back along from
1912 to 1910, and in every case Charlie
that's his given name) gave the day OF
the week corresponding to that date, and
gave it correctly. The longest time occu-
pied in any one case was eight seconds,
and the shortest was three seconds, the
average being about fre seconds. 1t
should be remembered that while he an
Year: 1879

[Sunday Afternoon for August
over the fclds by winding ways


We wandered on together
Under the flashing azure skies,


In hush OF August weather.
Round about us, afar ana near,


We heard the locusts humming,
And the asters starring the lonely path
Laughed out 70 see us coming.
Bird songs out OF the sunlit oak


Fen ripping through the shadow
Like spear Of flame the cardinal flower
Burned ont along the meadow.
Into our hearts the 1.-THE wind blew,
Its own frce gladuess giving,
And all things laughed in the happy EARTH
For the pure, sweet JOY of living.
Two roamed ON with their eyes alisht,
And their hearts too still for laughter,
Two iu a rcvcl OF golden life,


Looked neither before nor after
one went dreaming with downcaSt face
Through the hush OF the woodland cover.
But one praised tod from trembling hear
That The shadow OF pain was over.
Year: 1879

A Boston editor was refused admission
to a church congregation on the alleged
ground that he worked on Sunday to
get out his Monday mornings paper.
Another editor was discarded by young
lady for similar cause. Instead Of
drowning himself. however. he went and
married more sensible girl.
Year: 1879

The Washington NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
in its comments upon our article on negro
labor, does not comprehend the negro charac.
ter or the present status Of affairs. When the
negro is born among us, we know him thor
oughly.


The negro is contented and happy he Is
suited to the climate and the climate is suited
to him. The negro and the mule are good
friends, and both can stand the hot Southern
suns that would kill foreigners and others nm
accustomed to our climate. 1t is true that
white labor is every day in the field, but it is
on small scale.


The negro is a farm hand, and numbers can
be worked together to an advantage, and are
happy in that relationship. White labor is in.
dependent and will not submit to the same
rules and regulations as that of negro labor
The negro must be told what TO do, and to be
watched to see that he does it right.


The negro is n peculiar character and he has
a peculiar organization, physical and mental.
He is easily satisfied and not choice or dainty
cabbage, satisfies him. He loves grease in all
his food and cares little for comfort as 10 the
rest


Every nation and people have their peculiar
characteristics. and the negro is, as we have
said, the best--the very best-lRborer for the
South.


As to the supposed discomfort among them,
it is all stuff. A few sCheming, designing men,
for selfish purposes, are trying to get them out
West. The negro is child in mind, even
crcdulous and easily led He Is fond Of change
and variety if properly pictured TO him, We
have seen him hot with the Liboran fever
on him, the Texas fever, aud now the Kan
sas fever, but there were white men at the bot.
tom Of the whole matter, exciting him to rest
lessncss and discomfort.


We know all about the negro, and If let alone
TO be treated by the people among whom he
was born and raised, there would be perfect
harmony and good feeliug,-SaraRnah (Ga)
Rrcorier


The above furnishes the Southern key to
the situation, The negro is only regarded
at the South, as he has been for more than
n century, rs a slave, not under the law now,
but q slave to prejudice and cupidity, which
in 10 degree recognize his rights as a man
and a citizen. True, under the effects of
the war, the negro has been released from
the bonds of a slavery which made him q
chattel, subject to private or auction sale,
but this new status finds no recognition in
the Southern mind beyond that point, Ne
groes, in their best estate since they were
emancipated from slavery are regarded by
the Southrons rs mere hrelngs and any
effort to rise above that to the plane of
American citizenship, invested with the
rights, privileges, and responsibilities which
attach to the whites, is santagonized by those
who dread their advancement, and place
every possible obstacle in its way. The
South boast that they know all about the
negro, and hence the people at the North
are in dense ignorance about him, We adj
nit that they know more Of him as slave
than the present generation at tho North
Year: 1879

but this fund Of knowledge on their part
becomes exhausted at that point,
while the Northern people share
a knowledge of the negro as
o man and q citizen, which the South, with
its prciudiccs, has never attained aud never
can until they disrobc themselves Of the in
nuencc which dims their intellectual sight
and blinds their judgments. They evil
dcntly know nothing and care nothing for
the negro as man and citizen. They rate
him purely in the scale of physical labor,
recognizing for him no chance in the intel
lcctual race of life. In this he is held in a
slavery as fatal TO his Advancement ns that
which came of the statutory law. As a cit
izen he has taken n new departure. lie is
entitled to the same recognition given to
the white man in the state where he lives,
and the sooner that fact is recognized and
respected the sooner those who regard the
negro us u mere digger in the soil or toter of
burdens will reach higher sphere of lnowl-
edge regarding his status his abilities, and
his destiny Tho negro 10 capable, physi-
cally, of being "a farm hand )" but that
should not subject his intellectual faculties
to sphere of slavery from which there is
no emancipation under education and de-
velopment. Give the negro fair chance
in the race of life. Nothing more is
asked, and nothing less is just TO him
as citizen. Our cotemporary prescribes
for the negro bill of fare of :" fat bacon
"and corn bread, with cabbage" and in
sists that such spread satisfies him"
Well, perhaps so, because it is all that
slavery afforded him but if he should ever
attain sphere where better line of food
is as easily available we doubt if he would
cling to his fat bacon and corn bread
from choice This, however, degencrltes
the question, and keeps it on scale below
the sphere of American citizenship, and
that is The plane now on which we propose
to discuss the negro question. OF one thing
we feel satisfied. If the planters in the
South treated the colored citizen in all the
relations in life save those of q social char
acter as he treats the white citizen, the
negro exodus would have been unknown,
and no measure of sclieming on the part OF
designing men" could have produced the
feeling of dissatisfaction which has led to
so widespread a desire to leave homes and
scenes of childhood and mature age, so long
enjoyed by that people.
Year: 1879

If Ohio alone was interested in the OPEN


ing contest in that State, the dodge Of nom


mating Union soldiers TO hide the internal


rottonness and disloyally Of the Democratic


party might work; but with recent history


staring the people in the face the ruse will
fail. While General Ewing may be a very
good man and brave soldier per Sc, he repre-
sents party whose history for twenty years
has been one Of constant war with the Con-
stitution, the laws and the welfare Of the
Union, and hence he can be no more trusted
than that party itself, and the country be-
gins to understand full well that it is no
more safe now to trust the Conicderated
Democracy than IL was TO cOnllde in the
South during the war, and for that matter
at any period since the war ostensibly end
cd. In Ohio il is the Democratic party
which is on trial in this contest General
EWING, though he be as pure as WASHING
Ton, as wise as JEFFERSON, and us brave
aud patriotic as GRANT, when he accepts
tho standard of a dsloyal, dishonest,
aud revolutionary party and becomes its
Year: 1879

SAM CARY cursed, denounced, and left
the Greenbacll convention when he found
that he could not control it, and the party
was purer the next moment. Such little
tempests tend to purify the air.
Year: 1879

MAST furnished in u late number of Har-
pG's Weekly cartoon which represented
the eX-Confederates as monkey, and the
Northern Democrats as cat, with which
they were raking the chestnutso Of revolution
out Of the fire. Now that MAST is in the
monkey and cat business we would suggest
Il subject for his next effort a Adouble-head.
ed monkey-TnURMAN and the Confederate
Brgadiers-with double-headed cat-Ew-
ING and RGcE-drawing chesuuts from a
very hot fire, OF course SAM Cox would
form the tail Of the cat orsomethiug or of that
sort as q whlom Ohoan.
Year: 1879

1.-TWO Union Generals is the frantic
shout of the Ohio Democracy. If these ex-
ceptional nominations did not prove the
prevalence of the rule of The Con(ederacy
the shouting would not be so frantic
Year: 1879

THE Ohio She Journal thinks that
MURAT HALsTEAD would make a good
Cabinet officer. OF course he would. There
is scarcely prominent man in Ohio but
who would fill any place in the Govern
ment from President down but that would
not seem TO justify the taking of all the
Federal officials from that State. There are
several other States in the Union which
possess able men.
Year: 1879

WHY don't you get the negro out of the
South, gentlemen 2-Louisriilo CoWier.JoWral,


Ask those colOred people who have been
refused transportation when they desired to
leave, why they did not get-and perhaps you
can get the information you seek.
Year: 1879

The statistics show that the average citi-
zen Of this country who lives upon or within
his income earns and expends less than $500
year. The number of millionaires whose
incomes amount to thousands upon thou
sands of dollars per annum, the business
men, and the cOupon-clippers, who revel in
extravaganza or comfort, and those who en-
joy simple competency are IAmerous, it
is true, and growing more 50 every day as
the country progresses in wealth and its
almost inexhaustible resources are more
fully developed; but they are outnumbercd
a hundred to one by those who live from
hand to mouth, % whose wages do not ag-
gregate 81 day the year around. 1t is the
influence or jealous envy and, perhaps the
ignorance, Of this poorer class in our citi-
zenship that is just now Operat-
ing as the only clog to our fur
ther national advancement to the
more rapid development of the grand and
These may be plain words, and they are
unsavory but they are nevertheless true.
Being true they are worthy of calm analy-
sis and cold, cruel dissection.


The demagogucs in politics, who profit by
q knowledge of these facts and successfully
seek power by prating on the poor mans
wrongs and suflerings or the rich mans
! luxuries and wickedness, have more TO do
with crystalizing this jealous envy and ig-
norance Of which we speak into organized
opposition against the natural spirit OF
progress in the country than any other
agency; but there exists outside of them a
sturdy and patriotic determination among
many well-meaniug, though narrow-minded
and inexperienced people, to circum-
scribe every tendency to the en-
courogement of that spirit, They
believe in the old-lashioned policy
of letting well enough alone, and cautiously
interpose the emphatic veto of then ballots
against the expansion of our internal and
| foreign commerce or the natural evolution
of new channels of trade, So true is this,
! that the simple suggestion Of a subsidy, OF
Year: 1879

One day of the TELLER Committee in
New Orleans reveals the fact that the reign
of terror in the South during the last cleo
tion has been so terrible and subversive of
the right of citizenship that the principles
upon which free and popular Government
is based are no longer respected in the late
Confederate States. True, only few facts
have been developed thus far in this investi-
CATION ofDemocratic atrocities; but these af-
ford an unmistakable symptom of the disease
that afllcts the "Solid South" from one ex-
tremity to the other. The first day, it will be
noticed, was devoted to the parishes of Match
itoches and Tensas, in Louisiana. There
terrorism and outrage were typical of the
whole South, though in Natchitochcs it was
comparatively mild. The witnesses thus
far be it remembered, are chiefly white
men, and what is more, ma
jority of them were Confeder-
ates during the war-pot carpet
baggers, but native born Louisianians. Now
let us see what has been proven in single
day. In Natchtoches it appears that Re-
publicans who presumed to assert the rights
of citizenship in peaceable meetings were
confronted with armed banditti, and driven
away from their homes under threats OF
death, and menaced with pursuit by blood
hounds unless they left the State entirely.
1t is made to appear that there is no law
lessncss among the negroes, and yet they
are murdered like sheep. Speeches calling
upon the colored citizen to come out from
the Democratic party are denounced as in
cendiary, and those who dare to make them
are pursued with a vengeful spirit No
prosecutions for fraudulent voting are mad c
for the reason that the whole State judi
ciary are involved in these frauds, and
hence no prosecutions are practicable. So
much for Natchitoches thus far. Tensas
Parish is the next in order, and we wait its
developments. The fact will be made ap-
parent that there was no free, fair, and hon
est election in Louisiana, and that the
rights of citizenship under Democratic rule
are not worth rush to Republican under
this reign of terror
Year: 1879

MUNCHAUsEN is dead! Long live the
Washington Post!i But it seems that the
successor NJ the King of Prevaricalors finds
its shouldeNS too broad and capable to wear
his compara4 4vely puny mantle. Referring
to the so-call& scandal regarding the First
National BankSof New York, which had its
inception in liN, and which now only ex-
lists by the support of liars, this more-thon-
MuNcHAUsEN remarked yesterday that
President THOMPSON of that bank was so
much alarmed, as well as disgusted,' n
year ago, that he withdrew from the bank
altogether, selling his stock at a large ad-
vance" Unfortunate THOMPSON, that his
disgust should carry him away and permit
him, blindly and stupidity, to sell his stock
"at q large advance" But the truth is, Mr..
THOMPSON simply severed his connection
with one bank TO take a similar position in
another. lie is now president of the Chase
National Bank of New York, with which he
is probably willing to get disgusted also,
provided he can sell his stock at large
advance Wonder if the owner of the
Post wouldn't like to get up similar dis
gust regarding that unsavory institution
Year: 1879

real reason, however was that the inquiry
would be an awkward thing, and would
" establish on awkward precedent" This is
a sad, sad admission, coming as IL does from
a leader Of the majority partyin the House
but it is characteristic of party that does
not hesitate to condonc murder and whole
sale assassination as necessary and excus-
able political agencies.
Year: 1879

SENATOR EDMUNDs resolution declaring
that, in the judgment of the Senate, the
thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amend
ments TO the Constitution of the United
states have been legally ratified, and are as
valid as other parts of the Constitution 4;
that it is the right and duty of Congress to
enforce such amendments by appropriate
legislation, and the duty of the executive
department of the Government faithfully
and with diligence to impartially execute
such laws that it is the duty of Congress
to appropriate money to that end, and in
structing the Judiciary Committee to re-
port bill for the protection Of the rights
of citizens and the punishment of infrac-
tions thereof, strikes directly at the founda-
tion of all our national political difficulties
or troubles. 1t is simple and emphatic
reiteraton of the principles of the Republic
can party and at the same time re-
ncwed Endorsement of the most prominent
| political achievements Of that party. 1t will
put the Democrats in the Senate to q direct
test on the question of their honest submis-
sion to the much-abused results Of the war,
particularly on the question of the legality
of the adoption of the amendments, for the
successful ratification of which it is charged
that the new State of West Virginia was
especially created. Let the record be made
up without delay.
Year: 1879

The new capitol building of the State of
New York, which was dedicated on Tuesday
last, is said TO be a magnificent pile, The New
York Times IN referring to it says;


Everybody admired the new capitol build.
ing incomplete as it is, and enthusiastic con-
noisseurs said that it marked the beginning of
q new era in American architecture.
Year: 1879

Now the Opposition has settled down to
the unanimous announcement regarding
Resumption that its success is due to sheer
luck, and not to any craftsmanship or capa-
ble management ny the Republican party
How lucky the people Were we add, tc
have the lucky Republican party in power
at this junctue, instead of the proverbially
unlucly Democracy.
Year: 1879

THE POTTER Committee has an oppor-
tunity to examine certain important WIT
nessjust now whose testimony will open up n
new field Of investigation This oppor-
tunity has been gratuitously rendered to it
but there are doubts whether the tender
will he accepted. If it is not, it will be in
order to call for the reason why, you
know
Year: 1879

THE chagrin of the Opposition at the
success of Resumption is apparent on every
hand, bat nowhere so emphatically as in
those quarters where it is suggested that if
the demands of trade should take specie
out of the country, and all that sort of
thing, the Old Nick would be to pay. To
this remarkable If we have to say that it
resides mainly with Congress to prevent the
drain of specie from our banks and Treasury
vaults which would be required to provoke
the disaster threatened. Our commerce is
ilOurishing, our prospects of retaining the
balance of trade in our favor are encourage
ing, and our ability TO sustain this hopeful
condition of affairs is unquestioned, pro-
yided Congress does not mischievously de-
stroy the good that has been evolved from
the struggle incident to our transition from
initiation to substantial "hard-pan." II is
worth while, in view of this conceded fact,
to watch closely the result of these insidi-
Gus suggestions, especially among the Demo-
Gratis in the House, where they find embodi-
ment in wish which is father to the
thought. 1t is, perhaps, unnecessary to add
that the Democratic party, for the purpose
Of partisan advantage, would not hesitate
an instant to impede Resumption, and over
whelm the country with renewed financial
distress. In plain terms the chagrn of the
Opposition amounts to simple desperation
over the fact that the Republican party has
achieved the difficult task Of restoring our
currency to its par value. They will do
anything and everything to destroy the
fruits of that great and victorious achieve
ment.
Year: 1879

WHEN will Mr.. PoTTAH make his report
of the result of his recent and latest inves-
legations in New Orleans? An anxious
public awaits an opportunity to laugh at
him and increase its doubtful admiration of
the insidious adroitness of The Awful
.Jpnks
Year: 1879

THE skies are not so bright for VOORHEES,
to succeed himself, as many have supposed.
The Greenbackers have the power to die
tate, and as DE La MATYR was and is now
a stalwart Republican, except his ultra
Greenbackisn, it would be an easy matter
to unseat VOORHEES, if the Republicans
would coalesce with the Greenbackers and
support DE La MATYR or some other Re-
publican of that stripe.