smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The Republicans affect to regard State


Rights rs synonomous with secession,


and to regard the Democratic appeals


for recognition by the General Gov


ernment of the reserved rights of the


States to control their own respective


internal governmental affairs as a re-


vival of the dOgmas of secession. Therein


they commit grave mistake, and one


fraught with the direct evils to the
country, for nothing can be palmer to
any intelligent and well informed mind


than that the States under the Federal
constitution possess letters patent tocer-
tain reserved rights, which, on their en-
trance into the Federal compact, they
retained, and from which they have
never yet parted, and nothing can, to
the same intelligence, be more true than
that the question of secession was for
ever settled by the last war, and must
remain forever as dead as the gallant
heroes who Offered up their lives in vim
dication of its right, and the equally
gallant warriors who died to establish
Its fallacy as principle in American
politics. Secession failed, and every
thoughtful man who wore the gray
readily admits the fact, and that the
chapter is closed, and yet that the States
have rights and Jurisdictions separate
from and independent of the Federal
authority and jurisdiction in one who
| will take the trouble to read the consti-
tuition of the United States and reflect
for one moment upon the fabric of our
government can deny, and the assump-
ton by the Federal government of the
right to control elections i'm the States
by means of the infamous supervisors of
elections, law and military interference
at the polls is II fragrant usurpatiOn of
power, and an outrage upon the right of
free suffrage, that highest and most
sacred right which the citizen can enjoy,
and any encroachment upon which,
under whatever preteXt is an invasi, II
of individual right and contamination
of the very fountain source of power,
and should doom the party which at
tempts it to final and complete over
| throw by an outraged and indignant
people. Section - of Arficle lst of the
Federal constitution contains the only
limitations upon the powers of the States
to be found in that instrument. That
section reads as follows: "NO State shall
enter into any treaty, alliance, or con-
federation; grant letters of marque and
reprisal; coin, money, emit bills OF
credit; make anything but gold and
silver coin IA tender in payment of debts;
pass any bill of attainder, expost factO
law, or law impairing the obligation of
contracts, or grant any title of nobility,
nor, without the consent of Congress,
lay any imposts, or duties upon imports
or exports, except what may be absO-
lutely necessary for executing its inspec-
ton laws, nor, without the consent of
Congress, lay any duty of tonnage,
keep troops or ships of war in. time of
peace, enter into any agreement with
Year: 1879

personal service, the wealth of the coun-
try should bear the burden of its pro-
lection by graded and liberal income
tax.


Eighth. We recognize the mutual de-
pendence of capital and labor, and dep
recate all efforts to antagonize them.
We demand cheap capital and well paid
labor i'm place of dear capital and cheap
labor.


"A letter was read from Hon. Peter
Cooper, from which we clip the follow
ing extract. After referring to the finan-
cial relief needed Mr.. Cooper proceeded:


Any course or party action that will
hasten that day will be an incalculable
blessing to the people; hence, rejoiced
when | heard that the great Democratic
party of Ohio had nominated one of
the most outspoken and ablest advocates
of sound national currency issued solely
by this government. 1t seems to me
that this is one of the most significant
facts in regard to the progress of our
cause in the west. | must say, there
fore, in response to the request for adj
vice, that | think this nomination of
Gen. Ewing ought To be sustained.
Without wishing To imply any dispar-
agement to the excellent gentleman
nominated 10y the greenback convention
in Ohio, or wishing to dictate to any
one in the full exercise of their political
Judgment, | must say, that if We're a
citizen of Ohio, | should vote for Gen.
Ewing, as not only consistent with the
great principle for which we contend as
an Independent party, but also the best
method of securing success i'm our con-
test against the vicious policy that is
distressing our people.


Yours, very truly,


[Signed] PETER COOPER.


The letter was received with great
applause.


The following resolution was adopted
In view of the extraordinary political
situation, we deem it ineXpedient t.
nominate a State ticket at this time.


Nowif all honest Greenbackers would
heed the advice of their venerable leader
the relief sought for would be obtained
i'm 1850; but SO long rs men of the same
or nearly the same financial views ar,
divided they can have but little hope o
accomplishing anything.
Year: 1879

The return of the Democratic party To
power i'm the two Houses of Congress,
and the encouraging signs that the peo-
pie will, in 1850, repudiate the party of
"high moral ideas" and bury it under a
popular majority 80 great that Gabriel's
horn could not resurrect it, is exceeding
ly aggravating To the kid-gloved gentry
who have been reveling, for so many
years, in the luxury of official power
and emolument, and the bare sight of
the grand old Democratic army as il
marches i'm triumph from the retaking
of one ancient citadel of Constitutional
Liberty 10 the conquest of another, so
long polluted 10y the tread of the retain
ers of Capitalization, military suprem-
acy and official prostitution, the sworn
enemies of constitutional limitation;
and rs the valiant captors plant the old
flag upon the redeemed fortresses, cheer
ed on by the plaudits of the people
whose hosoms swell with hope at the
prospect of complete political disen-
thrallment from their old-time friend.
the Radical leaders orators are thrown
into such hopeless CONSERVATION that
they resort To such fantastic tricks rs to
not only make Heaven weep at their
wicked foolishncss, but to excite min
gled feelings of mirth and disgust in the
breasts of all honest, thoughtful people.


As witness Gen. Scuyler Hamilton on
Decoration Day, who says in substance
that the country is filled with the adhe-
rents of treason, treason reigns trium-
phant and defiant in both Houses of
Congress, and he recants what he is
pleased to call twaddles in Il moment
of sicllly sentimentality he was con-
strained TO utter i'm behalf of reconcilia-
ton of the sections and the allaying Of
the passions and prejudices engendered
by the late war. He recants his former
utterances in favor of peace and peace
ful pursuits, of amnesty and reconcilia-
ton and their consequent blessings and
denounces them as the promptings of a
''sickly sentimentality, as unadulter-
ated ''twaddle" and urges that no con-
federate grave should receive a single flo
raj tribute, and argues that such trib-
ute of respect, the promptings of no.
hle humanity toward the brave confed-
crate dead, who We're but the victims OF
misguided and unsuccessful valor, is a
misprision of treason. But enough a.
to the fiery rant and incorporate zeal
of the ''bloody" General and his still
bloodier utterances which are but the
promptings of irrational apprehension
of the early overthrow of the regime OF
hate which Gen. Hamilton and his par
tisans seek to perpetuate. We have no
patience for such rant and no respect for
those who utter it, and while not con-
federate ourself We would be glad to
see the approach of the time when the
joint decoration of the graves of the
the brave Federal and Confederate dead
will be performed by the same brave
men and fair women on the same day,
as tribute to American valor and
prowess whose deeds of noble daring
and brave, uncomplaining endurance are
the joint heritage of common country.
Year: 1879

"The HERALD is fretting itself unnec-
essarily about the large circulation of
the Nssos. We know the circulation of
the HERALD Is much less at this time
than il was before We commenced the
publication of the Ohio County Ncacs.
We know that the Ne,cs is going up
and the HERALD is coming down in
circulation. ss~ We simply assert
our circulation to he larger i'm the coun-
ty than that of the HERALD or any 9TH
withstanding.-Ohio Comfy Nesos.


Your assertion without proof is, to
say the least, worth no more than ours,
and we say we have a larger circulation
In Ohio county alone than you have, all
put together, and have agreed to leave
It TO the publisher of your patent out
side AS to the Truth of it and you flick
cred just as We knew you would. We
will leave it to the Postmaster here and
let him count or weigh all the papers
that go through his Office or we will
leave it to all the postmasters of the
county. How do you know that the
circulation of the HERALD is less now
than when the publication of the Ne,cs
began? Ifyou do know this, it is about
like everything else you pretend to
know-far from true. BY reading the
following affidavit persons can see
whether the HERALD is going down
since the Nescs began:


The afiiant, III. c. Shaft, states that
he was employed as Foreman of the
HERALD Office and commenced work
March 18th 1879, the next day after the
first issue of the Nesps and the increase
i'm the circulation of the HERALD since
then has been 1872 copies.


III. G. SHAFT.


Sworn to before me by III. c. SHAFT,
July LIST, 1879. c. HARDwIcK, ID. c o.
C. c.
Year: 1879

The Greenback State Convention of
Ohio split up and one wing of it held
another convention at Toledo, on June
oath, 1879, and among others passed the
following resolutions:


First. The effort to revive sectional
animosities and rekindle the passions of
the war is the more criminal because
made to serve the ends of party, and
divert attention from a subject that
vitality interests every citizen of the re-
public.


Fifth. All bonds of the government
should be paid in accordance with the
law under which they were created.


Seventh. While the laboring popu-
lation are required to protect their coun-
try by the sacrifice of their time and
Year: 1879

The SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS in Con-
gress are becoming alarmed at their
waning power, and although they
know they are sure in any event OF a
solid South, they know that it will
avail them nothing unless they have
larger following from the north. They
are no ways backward in throwing the
blame Of being placed in the present
predicament IN their nothern allies, AMI
they somewhat bitterly charge them
with a failure OF the effort to get tn a
Federal election laws repealed. The
south would have been perfectly salts
fed with the repeal of the jurors test
oath, so that they could pack the Uni
ted States juries with exrebels, and
thereby defeat a conviction for viola
! ton of the United States laws; but it
was the northern wing Of the party
they say, that demanded the repeal OF
the whole Federal election machinery
passed in war times for the protection
of voters at the polls. The rebels full
well know that the South will be
Democratic anyhow, troops or no
troops, and if only the larger part of
the electoral vote lay at the South
nothing more would be heard about
troops at the polls.
Year: 1879

Ix CONVERSATION yesterday with some
careful, calculating and experience d
peach growers at New Castle we regret
that we were forced to conclude that
the crop in New Castle County will be
a small one, and that in the neighhor-
hood of Mt. Pleasant and M ddletown
1t will be almost total failure. While
We regret this with New Castle, we are
pleased to be informed that the further
down the pninsula We 60 from Middle
town more favorable prospects prevail.
About Smyrna there will from present
appearances be profitable crop, though
q small one. The same may be said OF
Dover and other points in Kent County
AMI Bridgevile and in fact all ovel
Sussex, it is said the crop will be fai
average. Still farther down it is sale
to be very little injured, and all through
the peach growing regions of the East
ern Shore counties the crop promises t.


he fair.
Year: 1879

The PHILADELPHIA and Reading Rail.
road Colnpany's gross earnings for u"
month Of "April," reached the cuor
nous amount OF two millions Of dollars
of which amount three quarters OF a
million may be reckoncd as clear pro-
fit. This rate of earnings if kept up
would leave, the company worth a hand
some surplus at the end of the year.
II the company succeeds, as is most
likely in getting twenty i've cents ton
more added to the price of coal as it
fully expects a hundred thousand cot
lars a month more will be added to the
nett earnings. This railroad b-ing
the main artery to the coal regions, is
the Thermometer Of increased business
and it is assuring to know tina. while the
company is again in the highway tc
prosperity, that the whole country feels
the quickened impulse of a revival Of
| business.
Year: 1879

As THE spring is fast waning away
and the brisk spring trade with it, the
pros porous and careful calculating
merchant should continue his adver-
tisinC that the activity in business
may continue during the whole sum


ner. The REPUBLICAN, which las be-
come most emphatically the people'spa-
PEI. offers a live medium through
which merchants can reach the masses
with their announcement. Last week
we showed by our published figures
daily at the head of our editorial col
umns that our circulation over. ran
5000 copies on an average, and this
week we will do the same. Nc other
Year: 1879

WEDNESDAY Oct. 22-6 z. NJ.


Prices Change to-day all higher and
within ace of being rampant. From all appear
ances the stock market is grazing ground for
short horned bulls of conservative tendencies. IL
the average speculator aspircs to be cornuted at all
1t must be after the fashion of the bovines that one
meets the Roman Campagna-long horned and
widespread. Crumpled horned veterans upon the
Stock Exchange stand aghast at the persistent rise
while newly born operators whose horns are in the
velvet. rush in and make the money. Nothing can
be truer than the fact that while the great body OF
young and inexperienced operators pitching III
upon the bull side i'll a hit or miss ana
slap dash sort of way. have feathered their
nests, the experienced old fogies of the street
have made next to nothing. History ought to re-
peat itself upon the stock market as well as IN po-
litical matters. but it does not. Judged by the
past the market ought to break but it don't; hence
spectators who their fingers at the teachinss
OF the past make money by bung stocks, and those
who regard them lose it. From the strength OF TO-
DAVIS market il doesn't appear that they ever Will
make money. for there was cessation to the Dull
feeling and no decline in tho clamor for shares at
advancing prices. While this was true OF the days
market, taken in it's entirety there was neverthe-
less lull after MONDAY. due to the sharp demand
for call money. Loans were made in many cases at


premium the regular interest of l32 per cent,
and in u bonus was demanded ana PAID.
Toward O'Clock the rate grew easier and either
from this reason or because the money question is
considered to be "bagateiIe" when stocks rs-
ing three four per cent a day, the share market
stened up. and the session closed with great vgor
and animation. There sharp advance in thecoal
early in the day. although it was not supported
to the end. Nothing moreis said about combination,
but much OF the revival in the coal trade. The CON-
panies to let the former die out in view
of the active demand they getting for their
product and tho surety that the output will not
more than supply present and future buyers.
Prominent among the stocks which reached
higher prices to-day the Kansas and Texas
securities the rise being stimulated this afternoon
by . report that the Wabash combination had OBJ
tanned control of the property. We have reason to
believe that this report is destitute OF foundation
1t is well known that both tho new Wabash and Kan
sas City and Northern combination and the Bur
lington and Quincy Railroad desirous Of con-
trolling the Kansas and Texas line, but it is not
well known that the Burlington and Quincy COM
pany have at present the whiphand Of the matter
through refusal to accept decline the contract
which they hold for week to come. Without doubt
the road in question will come under the control Of
one or the other Of these companies, aud in either
case the transfer would seemingly bo greatly to its
advantage.


Total sales at the Stock Exchange 1912
shares. Following is an epitome of the days busi-
ness:-
Year: 1879

The strongest election eering document


against Greenback theories is the re-


sumption OF active business all over


the country. So satisfied are the Green


hackers Of Ohio with this that in the


approaching State election many Of


them will not vote at all, and others If


they do vote will hardly leave one


Gresn6ack party to vote for the Demo


cratic which Is but another Greenback


party in that State. From all sections


Of the country come the most cheering


reports Of the revival of business, pros


perity, industry and thrift. At the iron
centres where furnaces and rolling


mills have lain wholly or at least par.
TALLY dormant, some Of them for years,
the fires have been relighted, and they
are vainly striving to keep pace with
the crowding orders. In Ohio and the
other Western States, the farmers have
been blessed with large crops, and their
barns are full Of grain bringing fair
cash prices. Many Of tho manufaeto-
ries are running on double time, and
everybody who really warts work has
no trouble whatever in finding it, and
tbs demand for steady industrious
workmen is increasing. All this shows
the wisdom Of the policy of resump-
tion which is purely Republican in its
origin, and having had trial of hard
times in the transition to a sound mon
ey basis which is showing itself to be a
grand success, there are few honest
workingmen who will want a return of
those times. 1t is strange however that
in the face Of the great success Of the
rssumptive policy Of the Republicans
that it should be SO constantly assailed
by not only the reenbackers but by |
the Democrats.


The masses of the people however are
beginning to find out which party is the
more responsible for this gratifying
resumption Of business and specie
payment at the same time, and
being tired of idleness and poverty |
they will no doubt in Ohio, as in other
States where the Greenback theories
had taken root, vote with the party that
have brought about these good times.
Under these circumstances it is the
opinion of we'll posted politicians Of
both the leading parties of Ohio, that
the Greenbackers will not poll more
than 20, 900 in October, while last year,
with business at a ruinous stand still,
and stimulated by the excitement Of
Congressional election they only polled
38, 900 votes. As it is in Ohio SO is 1t
everywhere aud the indications are now
that in the north, where education is
encouraged, free and tair elections are
held the Republicans will sweep the
field.
Year: 1879

In THE report of the City Treasurer to
the City Council last night we saw nor
heard no mention of that little cash
box containing $4,000 which City
Treasurer elect Guthrie and ex-chair-
man Of the Finance Committee says is
in bank to the credit OF the Board of
Education. We reckon We shall hear
about it when the newly
elected Treasurer gets snugly fixed in
his Official arm chair.
Year: 1879




II has adopted and We have sssn the
rebel temper as displayed in the late
extra session Of Congress. The triumph
Of the Democrats in 1880 would turn
back the wheels Of the government at
least twenty years and leave 1t ina
worse condition than 1t was then
found. Under these circumstances
1t is not 50 much men as measures that
are at stake in the present campaign
not only in New York but in all the
other northern states. 1t Is o victory
and solid North which are wanted
now to Offset insolsnce and solid South.
Year: 1879

A. B. Cornell did not seem to have
that unanimity of support for the nom
ines of the Republican party of New
York for Governor, that was indicative
Of success, but now that lie is nomina-
ted lie should be elected. The objection
was that Cornell was in too close afili-
alton with "ring" that ruled the
party, and from which influence he is
not yet clear. 1t is not known that
Mr.. Cornell has ever been guilty Of any
thing that would detract from his char
acter as a virtuous and upright man,
nothing whatever; bat he happened
to be the candidate Of the supporters
of what seemed to be machine politics.
He was heartily supported by Hon.
Roscoe Conkling for the nomination,
and this alone in the face Of Mr.. Conk


ling's recent connection with the
Sprague scandal has, without Reason,
created natural feeling Of indifference
for Mr.. Cornell's success. Mr.. Cornell,
however, Is nominated, and there is no
other course left for the Repu blicans Of
the great empire State Of New York
than to stop their chickering's, throw
away their little personal ami.
mosities, at least for the time being,
and unite in the election of Mr.. Cornell.
The issue at stake is too great to allow
of any dissentions. The defeat of the
Republicans in that State this fall will
create such an influence as will effect
the election next year and may throw
away the possibility Of electing a Re-
publican President. We are on the
eve Of what appears to be the most i'm


portant Presidential election ever held,
and defeat now will be as disastrous as
it could have been, had Abraham Lin.
coin been defeated tor his second term
in 1864. The rebels, the fate CT whose
enterprise was settled by the fortune of
war in 1854 have again arisen to power
with only the Presidency between them
and the absolute mastery of the
nation they sought to destroy.
They have utterly suppressed the
Republican vote of the South and
have made their whole confederacy,
including the border States, solid for
what they call Democracy. As Mr..
Coakling said in the Republican con-
vention they need just forty. seven
votes out of the whole North to vault
them into complete and absolute power
and New York has thirty-fve Of these
forty-seven votes. In the face of these
facts there are none but who can see
that unless New York is held for the
Republicans the Presidency must slip
from their grasp? This is bad time
to stop and redress personal grievances;
and have revenge for fancied wrongs.


We know that the South is solid, made
SO by the murderous shot gun policy
Year: 1879

his sxaltation to such = position Of trust
and honor, yet our congratulations are
not unmixsd with commiseration and
pity for the dificult task he has ahead
o. him TO carry on the city six months
without money.
Year: 1879

IT Is reported that Levy Courtman
Weir is making arrangements to build
q bridge over q small stream which
crosses the Elkton turnpike and passes
through the property Of VIM. R. Ly.
nam. The wAtchful Dean should look
after the matter and see If the work is
necessary Or whether it is merely inten-
ded for another job, and thus increase
the borden upon the tax payers Of the
county.
Year: 1879

After number OF pasuccessful ex-
periments, the Market street railway
company in Philadelphia has again in
troduced steam power on its line. The
motor differs from any it has hereto
fore used, being only about one-half
the size of those formerly employed.
Although the former steam power was
withdrawn, the experiment demonStrat-
ed that steam was cheaper tkan horse
power. 1t is to bs hoped that some
motor will speedily be found that will
do away with the use Of horses on street
car lines. No man or woman that has
ever ridden in street car can help
pitying the poor brutes that pass their
lives in dragging the over-ladrn coaches
over the rough city roads. There is,
perhaps, more unintentional cruelty to
animals through this means than by
all others combined, and all who wish
to see the horse freed frem this cruel
and ignoble position must wish for some
substitute that will work out his emsu-
cipation.