smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

And lastly there is poor Avery, with
one foot in the penitentiary and drag
ging the other over the threshold. About
four years ago, Avery married young
widow who aspired to "high social posi-
ton in Washington. The era was one
of show and splurge; the woman was
handsome, bright and ambitious the
man indulgent and vain, and the salary
only So, 800 a year enough, God knows,
for plain, honest comfort; enough for
cozy, quiet home, and for such "social
position" as good behavior and sterling
manhood and womanhood can always
find if they seek it in the proper place;
enough for any two young people who
love each other better than they love fuss
and feathers, and who recognize it as their
duty to please each other before they try
to please anybody else. But it was not
enough for Avery and his ambitious,
brilliant partner. Well, that romance
will soon be ended and, though it takes
ruined man and woman with all her
hopes blighted and all her ambitions
dashed into despair to illustrate it, it will
yet be worth the sacrifice to the Ameri-
can public. w Washington Letter.
Year: 1876

Southern States.l


The story of this man from first to last
is without a parallel in history. The
savage means he used to put himself into
the U. S. Senate discovered in him an
obtuseness of sensibility, disrelish for
true fame, morbid instinct for guilty
ambition which marks him the equal Of
King Richard the Third, who, on SINH
lar occasion, offered very high price for
a horse. We believe it is due to the
man, to the party, of which he is the
representative in our State, to the age in
which we live, and to the beginning of
the new era of honest rule with which we
propose to open the grand centennial
of American Liberty in 1876, that Gov,
Ames shall be impeached for high
crimes and misdemeanors, during the
sitting of the Legislature which assem-
bles January 4th, 1876
Year: 1876

CHARLESTON, Dec. 28.-The largest
and most enthusiastic public meeting held
in Charleston since the war, took place
this evening in response to call to sus-
tain the action of Gov. Chamberlain in
refusing commissions to Whipper and
Moses.


The assemblage was largely composed
of substantial business men of the city.
Geo. w. Williams, the wealthiest mer-
chant in the State, presided. The reso-
lutions which were presented by Gen,
Jas. Conner were adopted amid great
cheering.


The preamble says: The action of the
Legislature in electing as Judges w. J.
Whipper and F. j. Moses, Jr., men
whose proper place in a courthouse is in
the criminals dock, is an insult to every
safeguard which the law affords to life,
liberty and property.


We deprecate all appeals to passion
and to prejudice, but it behooves us to
speak plainly; the attempt to place infa-
my and corruption in the seat of justice,
violates the primal instincts of civilized
humanity, and to that we will not submit
The right to justice and good government
is one which we dare not relnquish.
With no hostility to the colored people
of the State, mindful of the good conduct
of those who have not been misled by
evil counsels, we are determined to pre-
serve to them every right and privilege
guaranteed by the constitution and laws
of the country. But the avowed purpose
that there shall not be equality, but a
domination of their race over the proper
ty and rights of the white people of the
State, will be resisted to the last, and
under no circumstances shall it prevail.


The resolutions protest against the
elevation of Moses and Whipper to the
bench, and avow the determination to
resist to the end while rendering to Gov.
Chamberlain grateful thanks for the bold
and statesmanlike struggle he has made
in the cause of reform, in the economical
administration of the government, in the
preservation of the public faith, in the
equal administration of justice and in the
maintenance of the public peace, pledge
steadfast support for the accomplishment
HtsfS.
Year: 1876

In the present condition of public opin-
ion, Morton's resolution to appoint a
Senate committee to inquire why and
how Ames and his carpet-bag crew were
beaten is Mississippi, is nothing less than
a gross impertinence. The honest men
of both parties have long been convinced
that the State was cursed by the meanest
and most despicable tyranny that ever
disgraced the soil of the republic; and
that until this tyranny was thoroughly
and completely broken, Mississippi could
hope for no permanent regeneration
St. Louis Republican.
Year: 1876

Friars' Point Delta.l


In former times the Congressional Dis
tricts ran directly across the State from
east to west, but the Radicals, for party
purposes, gerrymandered the State so as
to consolidate the Democratic vote into
one district We propose to return as
near as possible to the cid style districts,
and suggest the following as the proper
distribution of counties in the first two ::
Year: 1876

Pamela Stal.


1t truly behooves the people, if they
would consult their own future good, and
the good of their State, to secure Ames
removal. For Ames to remain in his
present position with the patronage that
his position gives him, he will prove a
most serious impediment to reformation
and, to great extent, clog the wheels of
legislation.
Year: 1876

AS we were "sort O courting rather
than sort O. not" and In order to be more
explicit in our statements, we propose to
accept the challenge Of the Intslligencer
on the following conditions:


We will select our expert at oar own
cost, and the Mteiligencer can select, or
as it has already selected its man, at its
own expense, and let these two gentle
men examine the accounts and report,
and if they can not agree let them select
an umpire. If this proposition is agree
able to our contemporary we are ready
to name our man. The second letter OF
his name is E. l.. BILL, Esq who is an
acknowledged expert in accounts, and
whose duties have made him familiar
with the work in hand. This interesting
little committee can invest itself with the
power to send for persons and Papers. we
presume.


While making this Investigation, how
would it do to 60 little further into an
examination of the question, so often pro-
pounded, "why is it that about $4,000
of interest on State deposits was not col
lected that ought to have been, snder
Republican administration?' Ard then,
too, it might be of interestto know some
thing more about the agricultural scrip
business. How much was expended by
the State in defraying the expenses OF
Board OF Registration? All of these
things, and perhaps great many more
that might legitimately come in the way
OF the committee, would prove interest
ing work, and would serve to enlighten
the public.
Year: 1876

MIpDLErows, February 3,-While
clearing the snow from the Midland
Railroad the plow left the track aud
crashed into the bridge over W!llmetnsc
river, smashing II down and the bridge,
plow and engine tumbled into the river
with nine men on the plow and cab.
Those on the plow were all more or less
bruised and cut, while those on the
cab IN addition to other wounds were Sc
verely scalded, one or two fatally. The
mail and passengers train was tagged by
4 man who e1tricsted himself from the
debris in time to prevent it from plur 6
ing into the river.
Year: 1876

Dictator, and widespread desolation call
ed peace might have existed. BE-


But while the people were too fast" for
the contamination Of these Radical plots
it may we'll be SAID that they have been
much too slow for their own good. Had
they made up their minds years ago.
they would have been richer by several
millions even though the Credit Mobi-
lierites, whiskey ringsters and carpet
baggers would have been poorer. But it
is long time before it is too late 20
mend. And now that the mending has
commenced at last, most likely the peo-
pie think they cannot be 100 fast in
pushing it on to perfection.
Year: 1876

"The bill will effect so many different
interests that the utmost diversity OF
opinion in regard to it may be expected,
and there is so large an element of un-
certainty In the probable result OF any
changes in the tariff that it will, in many
cases, be impossible to strike fair bal
anse between the arguments of experts,
of importers and manufacturers, with
which the bill will be assailed and de
fanhnd y
Year: 1876

"The great reform which Mr.. Morri-
son attempts, and in which we do not
doubt that be will be sustained by the
committee of ways and means and by the
House as well, is the sweeping ot the
statute book the whole complex system OF
double rates of duty, the mixture of spe-
ci6c and ad vsiorem duties and the su D.
stltution thereof of a simple single and
specific tax upon single article or class
of articles
Year: 1876

which the telegraph has already carried


to YOU. 1t is sufficient for me to say here
that the verdict Of those who heard 1t
was that the Indiana Senator came out
decidedly second best Thurman
ia conceded to be the soiest
member of this body; Edmunds
the ablest Republican: The latter Is q
Year: 1876

Mr.. PENDLEToN's testimony before the
committee on expenditures in the war de-
partment is not greatly to his credit. He
admits that while he was president of the
railroad and administrator of an estate own
ing three-fifths of the road he made verbal
agreement with himself to collect a claim of
$14S,0O0 for commission of fifty per cent.
He got the claim allowed, drew the money
and paid himself 800 900 for his services. The
estate of which he was administrator got less
than $4,000. The claim was of so doubtful
a character that one owner in it offered to
sell his share for five cents on dollar, and
how it ever came to be allowed is not clear.
Year: 1876

The Belknap exposure appears contrary to
all expectation to have done far more dam
age to Democratic than to Republican pros :
poets. The reason for this does not REQUIRE
much search. From the very first the DEM
ocrats have been loud in their rejoicings over
fhe national disgrace and proiuse in their
assertions that suspicion of dishonesty at
taches to nearly all the public men in the
Republican party. Their evident delight
over the downfall oil one who was the head
and representative of an important branch OF
the public service, their scarcely concealed
determination to turn the affair to partisan
account, their constantly repeated declara-
tions that because Belknap was guilty the
whole party was corrupt, and their apparent
preference of the manufactur of party capi-
tai TO the punishment of the offender, dis
gusted all fair-minded men and turned the
tide against the Democrats. The revelation
which soon followed of the utter incapacity
Of the Democrats to conduct the case and
bring the criminal to punishment, and OF the
underhanded way in which the investigation
was prosecuted in order to avoid the implica-
tion of prominent Democrats in the corrup-
ton which had been traced TO the Secretary,
completed the case against them.


On the other hand the Republicans showed
strong desire TO bring the guilty man to
punishment, and, disregardlng Democratic
precedents, made no effort to defend him or
to extenuate his offense. In pursuance Of
their policy, always honestly entertained and
unfinchingly carried out, they endeavored to
mete out exact justice to the wrong.doer
Nor did they, after the Democratic fashion,
attempt to deny that they had bad men in
their own ranks. They tnrned their atten-
ton to exposing these men and driving them
out. The honesty of their course and the
courage of their policy command the sup
port and sympathy of the people, as the re-
cent elections show. Thus the Belknap busi-
ness has helped the Republicans by showing
the incapacity of their opponents, and by
confirming them in their determination to
follow no doubtful leadership but to put their
best men 10 the front.
Year: 1876

IT is said that the President called Secre-
tary Robson to private interview Tuesday,
at which he spoke to the Secretary of the
current rumors affecting his official integrity,
and asked him to say what there was in
them. The Secretary replied that he was
conscious of no dereliction of duty, and de-
sired the closest scrutiny Of all his acts. From
all that can be gathered nothing has yet been
discovered in the Navy department discredit-
able to the Secretary, and the worst the in
vestigators are able TO say about him is
that he is too smart for them
Year: 1876

We do rot read Anonymous letters aud communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all indispensa ole not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty tf good faith.


We cannot under take to return or reserve commu-
uications that are not used.
Year: 1876

Tom ScoTT's Washington organ may grind
and grind and grind until doomsday but can
never utter more absurd thing than the fol
lowing:


The country needs all the money that can
be obtained by legitimate means to revive its
industries and to give artisans and laborers
remunerative employment. Congress can se-
cure eighty-fve millions of foreign gold ior
permanent investment by passing the bill
guaranteeing the interest on the bonds of the
Texas and Pacific railroad bill. The House
will find it of more benefit to the country to
do this than to spend its time in wranglng
over impeachments.
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS Is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T


Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
Year: 1876

From the New York World.

 The more we learn about Cham. berlain's proclamation the more clear our conviction grows that it is master piece of villainy. Wade Hampton, the democratic candidate for governor of South Caroline, declared that the state ment of facts upon which the proclamation is based is untrue. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State and two of his associates vouch for the peaceful condition of affairs in the State, and characterize Chamberlain's action as scheme to introduce military rule and prevent the holding of an election. It is con sidered curious fact that Cham berlain should have discovered the illegality of the rife clubs so suddenly, since in the celebration of June 2Sth, he marched in pro. cession with them, and previous to that time presented one of the clubs with a silken banner.

 From the New York Herald.

 We have several times urged the colored voters of South Caro- lima to support General Hampton and the Democratic State and To- cal tickets. We cannot see how they can wisely do otherwise. They are citizens of the State !; their welfare is involved with thas of thelr white nelghbors. Ger tainly if they reflect, they will see that Mir. Chamberlain has utterly failed to give the State peace, prosperity or good government. Gen. Hampton, a man ofinauence and Character, solemnly pledges himself and his associates on the Democratic ticket to give the State honest government and to secure to the colored people every
Year: 1876

From the New York sun.l

 The most silly, prcposterous, and wicked cry raised duriug this campaign is that of the Republi- cans about the solid South. Thus Jay Gould's young editor lifts up his voice and walls: "A solid South what does it mean9 Why does it alarm all thoughtfulmen? ?" And Mir. George William Curtis writes that a united Southrequires that the North should likewise be united to put the South down.

 What is this solid South? For what is it united? Has it any bad or doubtful object? Not at all! 1t is solid only against pub lie robery such as never was com mitted upon ahy other people in the world. It is only united against system of State Govern ments more greedy and profligate and plundering the people upon a grander scale than any other governments, savage or civilized, that ever existed on earth; and it is solid and united against the present national Administration, because it is likewise greedy, prof. ligate and larcenous. This is the whole of it. The only purpose for which the South is united is to escape from these governments and from the total and almost in describable ruin they cause. Aside from this, there is not one single object for which the South can be called united and solid. The only aim which the South ern States haze in view in their support of Mir. Tilden is to re- deem themselves from this horrl- ble system, from the utter devas- tation which it's continuance will certainly produce, and from the moral social, and political calami- ties which would follow the cleo tion of Hayes, and the perpetua- tion of this immense organization of public extortion and robbery.

 There is no more reason for any alarm when the South is uni ted in such a cause than there was when the people of New York, of all classes, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, were united for the overthrow of Tweed and Conolly. The crimes of that band ofpublic plunderers, were as nothing compared to the crimes committed by the Republi- can State Governments of the South and by the Republican ad- ministration at Washington; and the drivel of Mir. Curtis and the Tribune, IS even more contempt ible than would have been here in New York in 1871 a wailing out cry of alarm at the unity of the people for the suppression of Tweed and his confederates.

 Thank God that the South is thus united for the stoppage of public plumber and the restoration of honest governments. Let ns hope that on the 7th of November the people of the North will prove themselves equally united in the same good cause.
Year: 1876

right Why should they not take him at his word2 We suspect that many of them Intend to do so, and that this accounts for this last and desperate expedient of Chambcrlain's which hae been so promptly exposed by members of his own party.
Year: 1876

An honest count is the noblest work of
returning board.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.


The New York World tosses aside the
humble story of the massacre of the Plnkston
family in Louisiana. with an announcement
OF the Complete fizzle OF the play Of the
tragic wench."


Sam Bowles believes Hayes would make
the best president and hopes Tilden will win.
Nothing could be more impartial than that
Rochester Democrat.


Why is it that federal musket, used sole
ly to preserve order and enforce the law, is so
much more terrible in the eyes of the Demo-
cratic editor than the rebel rife or shot gun,
used to violate the law and to murder peace
able citizens.


The courts are to be respected; but behind
the courts is the law, and the law must be
obeyed. If there has been any violation Of
the law OF South Carolina, it will become the
duty Of that supreme court to rectify the
wrong. But there the province of the court
begins and ends.-Utica Herald.


Several Democratic journals are wailing
over the death Of the Republic. 1t is a waste
of hypocrisy. The Republic will live good
while yet, though hardly long enough for
them to overcome their propensity to show
their ears at slight provocation.


A leading New Orleans Democrat said re-
Gently: 'We have had very exciting can
vass and have done our best to beat him; but
l freely admit that we have fully demonstrate
ed that Mr. Packard is an honest and upright
man. If the count should elect him, I be-
lieve Louisiana would get first-rate COVER
nor, ifonly the people will help him to do
right"


The Republican party joins with the most
vociferous Democrat of them in demanding a
fair count, but the Republican party also de-
mands fair vote antecedent to a fair count,
And this is something that the Democratic
party has never demanded and never
will demand while its inspira-
ton Is what it is to-day.-Roeheste
Democrat.


A gentleman In Cincinnati, who has q
newly married son residing in New York,
received lately the following telegram: "New
York, November II, 1876. Dear Father:
Maria gave birth to two twins this morning.
All well John." Reply: Cincinnati, No
vember II, 1875. To John: Dear Son:
congratulate you. Give us fair COUNT
Father"


A good many Democrats are rashly main
tanning that the circumstances of the elec-
tien at the polls shall not be investigated.
This is strange position and quite at odds
with the general practice of parties in thi,
country. The purity of elections is one of
the safeguards OF Republican institutions. At
least all statesmen and politicians worthy Of
the name have so held and with q show OF
reason.-Bost0n Advertiser.
Year: 1876

THE negro takes pride in the exercise of
his newly acquired franchise. The pretense
that be is Indifferent to that right, and would
neglect its exercise if free to vote as he choos-
es, is sham and fraud. Nothing short of
fear OF violence can prevent his assertion Of
this charter of his freedom. The pretense
that he would in any considerable numbers
vote the rebel Democratic ticket Unless
forced to so by violence or fear of bodily
harm, is equally false and ridiculous. He
understands that Democracy prolonged his
slavery for many years and fought to perpet-
uate it. He would as soon think of voting
for renewal of his bondage and that of his
posterity as of willingly voting for the Demo-
cratic party. The Southern Democrats be-
came convinced Of this before they adopted
the shot. gun policy of Gordon, Lamar G. Co.
Year: 1876

THE American people have listened before
to addresses of loyalty from Southern clergy
men and merchants and have presently dis
covered that the addresses signified nothing.
They are now inclined to make great allow
ances for the vividness of Southern imagina-
tion and for the incapacity of the South to
see anything it does not want to see.
Year: 1876

The Russians have done wise thing
Anticipating war they have ordered their
Mediterranean squadron to America. They
have a handsome fleet and don't wish to
have its beauty destroyed by those blasted
British sailors.
Year: 1876

We DO not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are In
ali Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

IT is clear that the elements of trouble and
conflict remain in the South. In the light of
these facts with whom at Washington do pru-
dent and thinking men believe the country
would be safer-Hayes or Tilden?
Year: 1876

SOME superserviceable little henchman in
Saco has sent dispatch to the Boston Globe,
stating with conspicuous inaccuracy that the
PRESS had taken certain positions in respect
to the congressional nomination in this dis
trict. If the Globe would take little more
pains in looking over its exchanges it would
MT be duped by so silly and transparent a
swindler. 1t is probably not fair to hold Mr..
Burleigh responsible, for the acts of all his
supporters, some of whom seem disposed to
use the most disreputable means in pushing
his candidacy.
Year: 1876

gain credit. Let them disprove the charge.
''If Republican district has disgraced itself
by not electing him over regular Republican
candidate, how much more will Democratic
legislature disgrace itself by not taking him
up as the party candidate, and electing him
to the higher place for which, according to
their own confession, he has such superior
qualifications
Year: 1876

THE committee on expenditures in the
war department will examine General Gus
ter regarding the authorship of certain ar
ticles which have appeared from time to time
in the New York Herald rejecting on the
Secretary of War and prominent officials of
the army. 1t is alleged that Custer wrote
them, and it is said there are persons who
are willing to prove it in case Custer should
deny their authorship.