smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

We cannot do what the Frei ch government
once did under similar circumstances-banish
fifty thousand of them to colonial servitude;
and it is a great pity we cannot. If we
could gather the whole disgusting multitude,
wash them, put new clothes upon them, and
under military surveillance and direction set
them to quarrying stone, or raising corn and
cotton for ten years, we might save some of
them to deceDcy and responsibility, and
relieve the honest people of the country of
their presence and their support. If we can
not do this, however, there are things that we
can do. Every State in the Union can gather
these men, wherever found, into work houses
where they can be restrained from soaring
and preying upon the community, and made
to earn the bread they eat and the clothes
they wear. 1t is necessary, of course, to
throw aways all sentimentality in connection
with them. The tramp is man who can be
approached by no motive by pain, pain
of thrashing OF the pain of hunger. He
hates work; he has no self-respect and no
shame; and by counting himself permanently
out Of the productive and self-supporting
forces of society, he counts himself out of his
rights. He has no rights but those which
! society may see fit of Its grace to bestow upon
him. lie has no more rights than the SOW
that wallows in the gutter, or the lost dogs
that hover around the city squads. He is no
more to be consulted, in his wishes or his
will, in the settlement of the question as to
what is to be done with him than if he were
bullock in a corral.


Legislation concerning this evil seems to
have been Initiated in various States, but at
this writing we cannot learn that anything
effective has been done. 1t would be well if
the States could work in concert in this mat
ter, but one great State like New York, or
Pennsylvania, or Ohio, has only to inaugurate
a stringent measure to drive all the other
States into measures that shall be its equiv
alent. The tramp whose freedom is imperiled
in New York, will fly to New Jersey or New
England, and New Jersey and New England
will be obliged to protect themselves. So
one powerful State can compel unanimity of
action throughout the country. The legisla-
ture of New York had bill upa year ago
which came to nothing. We hope the pre-
sent session will see something done, but
legislatures have SO many things to do besides
looking after the public safety and the public
morality, that we are quite prepared 10 hear
that this matter will he overlooked. But
something must be done, somewhere, very
soon, if we propose to have anything like
safet; and comfort in our homes, or to relieve
ourselves of a great burden of voluntary,
vicious, and even malicious pauperism.-[Dr.
Holland, Scribner.
Year: 1878

The Supreme Court of Louisiana, although
composed of Democratic Judges, has shown
itself to be above partisanship in the decision
releasing General Anderson on the ground
that he was improperly convicted. Its course
will be endorsed by every sound lawyer. The
paper which Anderson was accused of forg-
ing was not an original return, but consoli-
dated statement, and the charge made in it
did not effect the result of the election. The
court held that in order to be forgery an
instrument alledged to be falsied must be
legally capable of committing a fraud. A
consolidated return not being required in law
as declaration of the result, and its altera-
tion in no way effecting the election, does
not come within this definition. This decision
disposes of all the Returning Board cases and
puts an immediate stop to the whole scahda-
lous proceeding of prosecuting the election
officers of Louisiana because they acted ad-
versely to the claims of the Democratic party.
1t is bitter pill for the Democratic news
papers of the North that have been gloating
over the prospect of seeing Wells and Ander-
son go to the Penitentiary for putting Mr..
Hayes in the White House, and have been
"whooping up" the cry of fraud ever since
the New ORLEANS trials began.


The decision is not only sound in law and
vindication of justice, but it is emineutly
sagacious as a matter of public policy. 1t
shows that the violent "Last Ditch" politi-
clans have not got entire control of affairs in
Louisiana, and that the high judicial authori-
ties of the State are conservative, fair minded
men, who will not permit themselves to be
used as tools by the reckless Democratic poll
ticians of the North. 1t is in harmony with
the pledges made by Gov. Nichols and the
Nichols Legislature LIST spring. 1t is an as
surdnce that the bitterness and hatreds re


manning from the long era of violence and
fraud which Louisiana has passed through
will not be allowed to mar her fair prospects
of future growth and prosperity. 1t puts
the State once more in the path of progress.
We heartily congratulate Gov. Nichols and
the conservative men among his advisers on
this result. TIey are probably not fully
dWdTe VI IL VIII CAOi-
else on the future of their city and State, be-
cause they cannot know how deep and wide
spread was the feeling in the North that the
Returning Board prosecutions were purely an
affair of malice and base partisanship, and
indicated purpose on the part of the infiu-
ent;al classes in Louisiana to prosecute Re-
publicans because of their politics. New
Orleans seeks to be the exchange and entire


port of the great Mississippi Valley. Louis.
lana has vast undevelopel agricultural re-
sources which she needs Northern capital to
make productive. The Delta State and her
beautiful capital cannot affort to let rancorous
politicians build wall of hatred and ostracism
between them and a populous wealthy North.


The influence of the Anderson decision on
the politics of the country at large will be
most wholesome. We can scarcely hope that
Cheap John politicians like 8. 3. Cox will
cease firing off their little pop-guns at the
Year: 1878

There is body of persons at the West who
call themselves Democrats. Not many OF
them realize that they are Communists. Yet
the only idea which holds them together is
hatred of the man who has saved money and
has money. The more influential of them
hate the bondholder, not because he has
loaned money to the Government, but be-
cause he has an income at all. They hate the
banker, not because he wants high rates OF
interest, but because he charges any interest
at all. 1t does not seem to them crime TO
own houses and farms. But whenever a
man wants payment Of debt which they
owe, they instantly remember that property
is robbery" By curious idiosyncrasy, this
does not occur to these persons until they
have borrowed and spent the property, but it
then appears to them pious act to swindle
the lender. Some of them repudiate private
debts, but this is an operation which is liable
to embarrass them in the pursuit of gain. 1t
is safer and cheaper to rob creditors Of muni'
cipalities, counties, states, and the nation. So
we have repudiators, and most of the repudi-
ators are Democrats. Who can count the
Year: 1878

Special to Cincinnati Gazette.


WASHINGTON, March 20.


The best judgment that can be form
ed from tie opinions expressed by
those connected with the committees
having to do with the tariff and the
repeal of resumption and silver bull
lion certificate bills is that no one Of
these measures can be passed at the
present session. As to the tariff bill,
the House committee will report at
the last of this week, and ask to COM
init. Next week it VIII begin dis
cussion by sections of the internal reve-
nue. bill prepared by Burchard and
Tucker. This is fifty pages long, and,
before it is finished, will involve u dis
cussiOn of the income and tobacco tax.
All this must precede final action by
the committee on the tariff bill, and
the combined measure cannot, in any
event, be forced through the House.
Even if passed at all by the lst of June,
one month would be very short time
to allow the Finance Committee OF the
Senate for its consideration, when the
Ways and Means Committee have al
ready consumed four months. There
dIc NcIy lew WIN thiHh liO OSh"SO Ne'o
be kept at work after the 1st of Ju.
ly on the tariff bill. AS to the repeal
of the resumption ACT, the indications
are that it will net command even a
majority vote in the Senate, and in no
event can it secure the necessary two
thirds to carry it over the certain veto.
1t is believed that proposition to take
out the date clause and incorporate
further machinery to aid gradual re-
sumption and such machinery as
should ut some time insure cOnstant
advance toward resumption might
have much strength in the Senate.
But the decided opinion OF several
Senators, who have given much atten-
tion to the subjt ct, is that no change
will be made in the law Rs 1t now
stands. AS to any further silver legis-
lation looking to bull.'n certificates
and free coinage, there l. no decided
opinion among those consulted that
such measures cannot pass, after the
attempt in the House of last Monday.
Even some OF the strongest supporters
of these schemes have lost all hopes OF
success. One of the members of the
Finance Committee of the longest ex-
perience, said to-day that if he were a
business man he shO'd act on the belief
that the tariff bill would not become
law this session, that the resumption
act would not be repealed, and that
no silver bullion certificate bill would
DQSS
Year: 1878

TIE Democrats all over the country are
putting seductively baited hooks under the
noses of the Nationals. They are talking
beautifully about the lifelong devotion of the
Democracy to the laboring an, and are ask
ing what is the use of going into another
party to get what the Democrats will only be
too glad to give, provided they can gain
possession. They are careful to say nothing,
however, about the increased depression of
trade and industry which the present Congress
has caused by its continual agitation of finan-
cial questions. No party has ever done the
workingmen so much harm as the Democracy,
but it is too much to expect that the working
man himself has yet begun to realize that
fact,
Year: 1878

GENERAL BUTLER is prancing around Con-
gress with bill for the relief of the rag baby
trying to get the floor long enough to presen
it to the House He wants the subsidiary
silver currency called in, and the old fraction
al paper currency revived. The General is as
restless as colicky baby. He seems to
think that the way to cure financial ills IS
to change the rem edy as often as possible.
Year: 1878

The two contested seats in Congress from
South Carolina are TO be referred to the peo-
pie of the districts for new election. This
is little more reasonable than the Democratic
majority in the House has been in previous
cases, where they seated their political friends
without the formality of an election,
Year: 1878

SECRETARY SHERMAN grows more hateful
to the Democrats daily. They were bitter
enough toward him before he defeated that
1915, 900 postal claim, but since that they
cannot endure even the mention of his name.
The Western brother is particularly mad that
Mr.. Sherman should give the Senate com
mittee his views about Resumption. All this
venom is additional proof that the Secretary
is doing good work.
Year: 1878

Wisconsin man promised his daughter a
dowry of $500 to marry certain man. She
accepted, got her hand on the cash, and with
ing hour after the ceremony was over, she
was in Illinois looking up an old lover.
Year: 1878

Presidents title, but we may reasonably
expect that schemes for unseating Mr.. Hayes
will be very little heard of hencefOrth outside
of MIR. Tilden's back parlor, and that the
country will be given rest from an agitation
of which it is heartily sick. There are quts-
tions of far more important than the alteration
Of the figure in the Vernon Parish return or
the honesty of all the transactions of the
Returning Board. The conservative masses
of the country demand that the dead past
shall be buried, and that the Administration
and Congress and party leaders, both Demo
cratic and Republican, shall address them
selves to the great industrial and financial
Year: 1878

oumstances as led TO the terrible st.
tempt TO murder him. There wM
nobody at first but believed that story,
even the Gazette, with its malignity
against colored people in general, oe-
lieved it, and We hope We may be par
donsd, II we are wrong in saying, that
the great majority of the people even
of those whose prejudices are strong
against the negro, yet believe his
story was true. The people have their
eyes opened fully to see how easily a
court trial can be made travesty up
on Justice even in defiance Of the judges.
The whole subject is sickening and
disgusting one, and we'll would it have
been to the credit of Delaware Courts,
did it not mar its records. We know
that this is the sentiment Of houest
public opinion, and it would be much
| more honorable in the Gazette TO speak
its honest convictions for once, even
though justice might be done to poor
humble negro like Jones, "ho has been
the victim of two conspiracies, one to
have his life taken upon the prlnci-
pie that "dead men tell no tales, ana
the other to make his character Tor
truth as black as his skin. Both at
tempts however have failed, and Jones
with that bullet hole through his head
vet lives as witness to the truth Of
what H.. has told. This is one OF the
cases where painting black does mol


blacken, and where whitewash fails tt
cover up the scars OF injured charac'
ttrs,
Year: 1878

We presume the thoughtful readers
if there are any, who read the Guzette,
have been struck with the terrible
prejudice it has shown IN its comments
Oh the case Of the State against Mrs.
D0dson and the two men Vincent and
Newcomhe, Is remarks about the poor
negro Jones, have been unworthy of it.
self, and if it thinks it is making any
body by its course believe that Jones
really lied it is very much mistaken.
His story was told with too much ter


riDle exactness to admit of any doubt


and being told at time when fol
aught he knew, the next moment h
would be in eternity, it was no tim


for an untutored colored man like Jone


to weave together such a web of cir
Year: 1878

nobody that SmAlls was convicted there
is no trouble convicting any c"lored
man, down South especially II he has
been a Repu hlican politician. Even
here before our New Castle Court, there
was no trouble at oil sending the bod.
sons back to Maryland with a better
character that they ever before had,
and turning the poor negro Jones out
as a periurer
Year: 1878

The Philadelphia Ledge' says the
German Socialists, who are coming to
this country in body, are not likely to
prove much OF an acquisition. Although
they may BE- friends of labor in sentl-
mental sense, they are not personally
inclined to labor themselves. On the
other hand they are not likely to prove
as dangerous as some people imagine,
Tor they will not here be "muzzled mar
tyrs," but will have sach publicity
tiven to their sayings and doings that
their folly will be made appar' Mt to
every body. Nevertheless, a proposl


ton to have a National moral quaran-
tine against them has been widely
published, and the argument has been
lngeniously turned from the question
whether it is desirable to forbid their
coming, to that of whether Congress
has the power to forbid their coming.
1t is argued that such power is implied
in that section of the Constitution
which (without using the word
slayes) denied TO Congress the pow
rr to prohibit the migration or I'M
portation of such persons ''prior to the
year 1905" 1t is necessary to follow
this argument, for, admitting the right
OF Congress to prohibit the migration OF
importation of German Socialists, the
much more important question whether
it should do 30 remains unanswered. A
great deal of Fourth of July eloquenct
about the home of the oppressed would
90 to waste if any such moral quaran


tinen should be adopted, and the etfor'
to keep out foreign Communists would
galvanize into new life those We already
have among US. This is an excellent
country in which to put an end TO the
Socialism bred in Europe under condl


tions favorable to its growth, and there


is no quicker way of killing it than by
allowing It to come out and 60 unno'
ticed, so long az it break no law.
Year: 1878

IT Is said in Washington that Mr..
Mcpherson resigned his lucrative Office
there and went to Philadelphia to take
charge of the Press in the interest OF
Mr.. Blaine for the Presidency. But
many things are said in Washington
that are not true and this may be one
OF them.
Year: 1878

The undersigned this occasion toreturn his thanks
to the people Of Yankton particularly and his many
Dakota and for the
DUDLEY & HAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried business in this city, and
desires to call the attention Of these friends and that
the people generally to the enlarged facilities
stve assortment and comodous rooms which
firm had provided which of Dudley
Hawley, now possesses.


In the line of the Hardware trade in the
of Tn Copper and Sheet Ware
adjustment equal in all respects to anything
west occupying three grand rooms 25lO0
tent.


In the fature by constant application business hopes
to see the Hardware trade of the which naturally
utay to to this point cenered here shall spare
make for the interest Of the people within this REGION
chase their Hardware Tnware Copper and Sheet Iron
Stoves, and all other articles in this line from


Yours gratefully and respectfully


GEO. e. HAWlEY,


Union Block, Third st.
Year: 1878

FROM looking over the divorce records
of the courts in this Territory one is in
clined to conclude that society is made up
of two great divisions-one composed OF
people who want to get married, and the
other of those who want to get unmarried.
Year: 1878

BUSINESS is rushing so in New Tacoma,
that houses are erected in few hours
time. They are getting about as large
and durable mushroom town built up
there as their interests will allow.
Year: 1878

NEARLY a dozen new subscribers have
recently added their names to our list
There is nothing unusual about this, but
such things present silent though ominouS
signs relative to future prospects rather
than past achievements.
Year: 1878

JUDGE Lewis thinks if the people
Of Port Townsend can get justice
only twice a year, he rill endsavor
to give them as much of that article
as the "court will allow" Rather a
severe comment upon municipal and
county authorities.
Year: 1878

THE LOCAL PAPER.-The New
York Times says you might
nearly as well forget your
churches, your academies and
school houses as to forget your
local paper. 1t speaks to ten
times the audience that your
local minister does. 1t IS read
eagerly each day and week from
beginning to end. 1t teaches you
all, and if it has lower tone
and less wisdom than a sermon,
it has a thousand times better
chance at you. Lying as it does
on almost every table in every
house you owe to yourselves to
rally literally to its support, and
extract from itas able, high-ton-
ed character as you do from
an educator IN your midst. 1t
is in no sense beneath notice and
care for it is your representa-
tive. Indeed, in it's character,
it is the elimination of the i'm
portance, interest and welfare of
all. 1t is the aggregate of your
consequence, and you cannot ig-
more it without miserably depre-
ciating yourself.
Year: 1878

There is another feature Of the as
sessment laws that have not been fully
revealed yet, and which is but one OF
the steps taken in the great defranchis-


ing scheme concocted by the Demo
Gratis of Delaware, to keep Republicans
from voting. On Monday we showed
what the collector had to do with this
scheme and now we will show th~
part the Assessor has to play. We
have stated in previous issues of the
REPUBLICAN, that the Assessors have
been supplied with books, containing
the names of those who have been dis
franchised so that they can make no
mistake and put some name upon the
assessment that had been returned al a
delinquent previously by the collector.
The duties of an assessor according to
the Delaware plan of disfranchising is
found in chapter 81, Volume IA, Della


ware laws of 1873. A careful reading
of the sections will show that the As


SCISSOR is carefully guarded at every
point to enable him to put as few names
as pcssibletupon the books. He is al
lowed to discriminate but as a party
man he will of course look after his
own. Unlike the collectors, assessors
are elected by the votes of the people,
and consequently some Republicans
are elected who carry out the old fash
ioned plan of assessing every male clti-


zen over q years of age. To counter


act this the Levy Court is granted the
power of revising the assessments and
when there happens to be too many
| Republicans on the books, it is but an
easy matter to find trivial causes as eX-
cuses for leaving few of them off. We
are justified in this severe criticism by
the precautions in the law defining their
powers, and this law being passed at
the same time and by the same Legis-


lature that passed the iniquitous law
defining the duties of Collectors,


which we a few days ago exposed
shows that it was passed for partisan


purpose and that it was intended to Sc
operate. The Assessors are now en-,


gagged in assessing the changes of prop


erty or adding to the assessment the


Investments made since the last general


assessment. This we believe is all AS


SCISSORS are particularly required to dc
in the off three years between the
general assessment, though they can il
they wish go over their respective dis.
iricts and put on the names of all poll


taxabIes who have been left off or may
have become of age, and which the law
allows to be put on the books. There
Year: 1878

Northern BenevOlence - Southern


Prsjudtces.


From all the fever stricken points OF
the South comes full and frank recog.
milton OF the great benevolent impuls-
which actuated the North in sending
relief to the fever stricken regions. The
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin says the
total offerings will probably be counted
in millions, and not only were these
given with eager liberality, but. with
out doubt, they would be repeated
promptly il necessity for another
similar effort should be shown. Surely
this ought to convince the Southern
people that there is no unfriendly feel
ing for them in the region; but, while
this tact will be recognized to some ex-
tent, there is, we fear, absolutely no
hope at all that it will do much TO
mitigate the intensity of the grudge
that the South imagines it has against
the North, and there is no use OF ex-
pecting that it will persuade the South
to insure for Southerners with North
ern sentiments anything like fair play
in politics. When the fever leaves
Memphis no Republican will have any
better chance to express his sentiments
in that city than he had before, and
the Northern man who attempts to in
dulge in free speech an free action in
New Orleans will run as great risk
as ever OF having bullet sent through
him. The South needs wisdom with
whatever gratitude it feels. If it per
mitted law and order and personal
rights to prevail as they prevail here,
money to develop its industries, to
stimulate its commerce and to urge 1t
forward, prosperity would flow from the
North in streams that would make the
relief fund dwindle into insignifcance,
but obody in the South seems to have
sagacity enough to recognize the posi-
bility of such blessing.
Year: 1878

The CHARACTER of the South Carolina
outlaws is fully shown in the informa-
tion which has reached Washington,
that three Of the former confederates OF
Redmond, the famous South Carolina
moonshiner, made a proposition to the
United States officials that for the SUN
OF 81 500 they would capture and de-
liver Redmond up to the law. The pro
position was communicated to the
authorities at Washington and the At
torney General has decided that there
is no fund which could be made legally
available for such purpose. These are
the kind of men that Wade Hampton
has been throwing his protecting arms
around, and who compose the rife
clubs that show " fair play when the
Republicans attempt to hold public
meeting.