smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875




Louisiana is the only Southern State
where the mixing of the races is enforced
by rascally Radical officials. Are Louis
ianians less proud of their lineage or less
careful of their rights than brethren of
other States!


We have adverted to the unbroken
stream of scurrility poured upon the Re-
publican press and party by the Demo-
cratic organ. We have been denounced
because we have performed contract for
similar work done by the Democratic Or
gans far better than it has ever been ex-
ecuted before.


We were not, therefore, surprised to see
in the Democratic organ of this city the
above extract, which, published in small
capitals, separate from any qualification
or comment, we have thus placed before
our readers here, at Washington, and in
Europe.


We are somewhat puzzled at such reck-
less and unnecessary intimation, and
really hope the organ will explain what is
meant by an intimation so revolving.
That compulsory miscegenation should be
charged as a crowning crime upon the
Republicans we can scarcely imagine We
may seem to show the outside world how
determined is the Democratic puposes to
excite the nrejudices of the moral and
Christian sentiment against the Repub-
lican people. The pride 'of lineage" is
one Of the most honorable sources of So
cial character. To preserve the family
name unstained and unspotted by any
illegitimate admixture should be the
care of all respectable people, and
we should look with horror on any
such abuse of power by the Republican
officials or others to compel such "mixing
of TIE races" When, indeed, it is reflected
how impossible it would be to compel
such mixture, and how obvious ifmust be
to every rational mind that such mixture
must be voluntary, at the will of the par
ties, the public abroad will see the injus-
tice done the Republican officials.


We have extracted this extraordinary
charge from the Democratic organ that it
may be seen there is nothing so base that
it would not charge upon the Republican
party, and nothing so absurd that it does
not expect to be believed by the friends of
monarchy at home and abroad. Mixing
of the races enforced by rascally Radical
offcials!" What an abominable imputa-
ton of an impossible abuse of political
power! Has the official organ no sense of
political justice? Does it believe there is
no limit to popular credulity?
Year: 1875

the industry of the. laborer throughout
the length and breadth of our State, and
charges us ''not to forget to alleviate, as
far as lies in our power, the sufferings of
the poor within our midst"


The President nor the Governor does
not ask us to return thanks to them, but
to the Ruler of the universe. If it is pos
sible for our Democratic neighbors to drop
politics for one day, to forget for few
short hours their quarreling, their strife
and pickering, their pulling and pushing
for Office, the day will prove a blessing
for ALL There is much to be thankful for
in the fact that we enjoy civil and reli-
gious liberty; that we are at peace with
other nations; that in spite of home enc
mics to our government and the ma
chinations of secessionists, we have
glorious republic about to celebrate
It's one hinndredth anniversary The
good God has not deserted us, neither
in adversely nor prosperity. When dis
tinguished Southern theologian prayed
for the success OF the Confederacy, and
said, "If God does not cause the Confed-
crate arms to become victorious, l shall
doubt His justice" he uttered blasphemy,
and made more infdels than he can ever
make Christians. Bad men are blind,
cropping in blindness. Defeat one OF
them in running for the Office of coroner,
and they doubt the whole plan of Chris
tian salvation. A wicked Democrat can
see nothing in Gods world to be thankful
for while Republicans are in office, and
such men ridicule pious and prayerful
people.


Thanksgiving may be "a custom more
honored in the breach than the observ-
ance, so far as New Orleans is concerned,
so is the celebration of the fourth of July,
but it still is beautiful custom. We
should be thankful that we live, and have
health; and while life and health is left
there is hope. Hope that enlightening
Christianity may reach all dark places,





may be lifted to an elevated plane of civili-
zation, and that even Democrats may be
made repentant and better men. Let those
who choose assemble in their respective
barrooms; silk purses can only be made
from silk; city ordinance commanding
people to attend church would be de-
clared unc institutional, and would fail,
because men will not have goodness
thrust upon. them; but by all means let
those who wish go pray without hindrance,
nor stand at church doors and tell those
entering there that we in Louisiana have
nothing to be thankful for. On Thurs
day next special services will be held in
several of our Protestant churches, and
We hope to see them well attended, in ac-
cordance with the recommendations of
our Governor and President, and the de-
sires of Christian, grateful hearts.
Year: 1875

will have no longer to perpetuate evil nor
atone for deeds done in the political flesh.
1t will be important to invoke the signal
ability of William Allen and the moral
worth of the zebraic Tweed to reform the
abuses and establish the character OF the
government.


We forget, as the Democratic aristoeracy
has denied the Republicans any political
or social rights whatever, all comment
upon our superiors is improper. Dem
ocrats deny. political equality. Democrats
consider finance no subject of executive
action. Democrats regard it disgraceful
for the leaders of political party to labor
for the restoration of harmony" in their
own party. Such conglomeration of
paradoxes so confuse our political mind
that we can pursue it no further
Year: 1875

We once thought we had succeeded in


collecting all the aliases of the political


convo ntion which is underlined for the


fourth of January It's real name is Demo-


cratic, and as such it will be announced


TO the world the moment anything like


success appears to be assured or promised


with any degree of certainty. But just


at this junctIre il is not thought prudent


to proclaim its true patronymic. Democ-


racy is, therefore, like the President of the


late Contederacy, on q notable occasion,


travelling incog, disguised in reaceable


apparel, but ready to throw off the mask


the moment it is out Of the woods, or


near enough SO to make such movement


safe We have tefore noticed that each of


the five Democratic organs has different


name for the party to which they all pro-
fess allegiance. Among and between them
We have the Democratic, the Democratic
Conservative and the Conservative, which
represent the powerful army of "outs, "
all grouped together under the general
title Of antiRadicals. By this last name
the machine will be run until the Demo-
cratic element in the conglomerate mix
ture sees the opportune moment arrive
for taking the other allies on the hip.


A general and pressing invitation is
therefore extended to 'au anti-Radical
voters to rush to the polls on the ap-
pointed day and vote for delegates to the
anti-Radical State convention. When
the people shall come to that political
"bee" they will find that everything has
been carefully prepared by the genuine
Democratic architects, and nothing
wanted but strong shoulders to put it to-
gether and raise it. The whole list of
delegates to that convention has already
been prepared, and all that is left to be
done is to get enough people to go to the
primary election to give the thing the re-
spectability of numbers. As soon as the
nominees of the little political ring are
ratified "by the people," which will be an
easy matter, we shall find the Democracy
coming to the front and claim
ing new grant of power. Having once
got the control, further selections will be
made from among those who can show, by
words at least, the best party record.
About the same elements, though per-
haps not quite the same men, will rise up
as those of 1872, who played tor the State
aid lost it. The Liberals, Conservatives,
discontented Republicans, hired colored
voters, and all other allies, will be placed
in the background and fattered with
praise and compliment for having ''re-
deemed Louisiana, which is exactly the
equivalent of restoring the Confederate
Democracy to power.


If the anti-Republican voters respond
to the call to attend the primary elections
they will soon find that their votes and
not advice is wanted. Neither the dele
gates to the State Convention nor the
nominees for Office will be selected from
the Conservative and Liberal factions in
that grand division of the whole party.
These will be expected to serve as volun-
teers without pay, the regular Democrats
alone being considered in the line of pro-
motion.
Year: 1875

mended, especially by the people Of the
South, one-third of whom are of the same
race as the slaves of Cuba, for his attempts
to free the people and commerce of that
unhappy island from Spanish bondage.
Year: 1875

The improvements in implements of war
fare are SO great abroad that they keep
many of our distinguished officers con-
stantly making trips to Europe. Admiral
Porter is going over to look at some torpe-
Year: 1875

government their regular rates, which
would have made the aggregate cost much
more than THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
charged, and not two thirds less, as the
committee falsely state. Their conclusions
regarding the course of this journal and its
status are so transparent as to deserve no
notice. Its influence for good has been, is
now being and will continue to be felt both
at LONE and abroad, the efforts of the little
clique of disappointed Democratic misers
who run the jackson Association to the
contrary notwithstanding. The goodwill
and the patronage of these gentlemen are
equally worthless to any:enterprise, and
will never be sought by those who know
certainly not by this journal, which
has been opposing them politically for fif-
teen years, and which during that period
has seldom been able to discover anything
about them personally to commend. Not
satisfied with the misstatements spoken OF,
some of the meanest of them took advan-
tage of an opportunity which was offered
to insult the memory and reputation of Col.
Thomas B. Florence. He needs no de-
fender, and the simple publication Of the
disgraceful assaults, while they do no harm
to the respected deceased, show in its true
colors the character Of the men who assume
to run the Democratic party in the District
of Columbia. If the rank and file are salts
fed with such leaders, they are not as hard
to please as they ence were. The public
spirited and progressive members of their
party long ago found themselves compelled
to secede from their organization and set up
for themselves
Year: 1875

DIR. RANSOM, who was chosen to be
president of the North Carolina Constitu-
tional Convention yesterday, was elected
ss an Independent Republican by the peo-
pie of Tyrrell county. Exactly how much
honor he expects to realize from this will
depend somewhat upon his future course.
If be repudiates the pledges he made to his
constituents during the canvass, and pro-
ceeds to act with the Democrats, he will
earn lasting and deserved infamy. The
majority of the people of the State have
expressed q determined desire tina: the
constitution shall not be tampered with,
but it is to be feared that this man, single
and alone, has been placed in position by
the Democrats where the temptation to
thwart the will of that majority is, to ssy
the least, very enticing. He can, however,
use the power thus placed in his hands to
do justice to the party TO which he owes
his election to be a delegate, and thereby
disappoint the Democratic schemers.
Will he do it2
Year: 1875

There is nobody, even on the heights of
Georgetown, who Is at the same time pos


sessed of brains and of the opinion that in
any contingency whatever Georgetown
will be retroceded to Maryland. dissolve
the Union, said Lord Brougham in refer
ence to O'Connelps proposed repeal Of the
Legislative Union between Great Britain
and Ireland, "then restore the Heptarchy. 5"
He saw at once that any surrender by q
nation of dominion once acquired is the
beginning of disintegration of which none
can foresee the end. .--- II ... -r


The District of Columbia is q State Gre
sted by the Constitution of the United
States, and its relations to the Union can be
altered only in the mode prescribed by the
Constitution. De jur6 it is now ten miles
square, and the tendency Of the times is
rather to restore to the nations capital that
portion which has been illegally Withdrawn
from it than to continue the policy of dis


union by authorizing further partition Of
its territory. Questions relative to the Dis
trict of Columbia are to be settled in the
Legislature of the District-Congress.
Year: 1875

AS the country has increased in popula-
ton and in wealth, there has grown up In
Washington society q very considerable
number of persons of fortune, whose means
makes them independent Of the ordinary
circumstances that fix the abode Of Others,
and allows them the choice Of their places
of residence. To persons of this class the
advantages of Washington as home are
becoming more and more apparent
every day, and not few Of those thus
favored by fortune have fixed new resi-
dences here, making their home at the cap
ital of the nation. OF course, during the
summer heats such families always seek
the mountains or the seaside but the
winter residence is home to them, and it is
indeed their actual abode for eight months
Of the year.


The inducements Washington offers to
families of this character are so great that
each family which settles here and learns
our advantages by experience, be-
comes the centre around which gather
other families of like tastes, habits and
associations. To every one q city
has multitudinous advantages that attract
all classes, and of course these conveniences
and advantages multiply as the means OF
purchasing them is increased. But there are
many enjoyable features Of social life that
are beyond purchase; that no money can
buy; that require those who would
enjoy them to come first to the
sources of enjoyment. The mountain will
not go to Mahomet SO Mahomet must
come to the mountain. Washington is
unique in the possession of many social
characteristics which are no more to be en-
ioyed elsewhere than is the balmy air OF
Florida to be found in Maine, or the fairy
rainbow of Watkins Glen in Rockville.
Washington is as metropolitan as Paris or
London. Smaller, Of younger growth,
with decided American modes and sur
roundings, and giving, as yet far less oi
some of the enjoyable things of life; yet
In that adaptability to varied tastes, caprices'
and habits, of men that mark city as
distinct from a big town like Baltimore
or an overgrown village like Philadelphia,
Washington proves its claim to rank
among the great centres of civilized life in
the world. Nowhere can the man oi
leisure bring himself into such close prox.
unity to sources of unpurchaseable enjoy.
ment as in this city, and we may expect
year by year that our population will find
continually increasing accessions of people
who will come here for this reason, and
whose large expenditure will add continu,
ally to the business of the city.
Year: 1875

GAS the Washington REPUBLICAN assumes
to advise the Republicans of New York not to
say anything about the third-term business in
their convention, the wisest thing said Repub-
hcans can do will be to take precisely the con-
trary course"


So says the Hartford Courdnt;; but il
seems that the Republicans of New York
are not all so blind to the best interests Of
the party as to take precisely the contrary
course" An article which we reproduce
elsewhere from the Rochester Ezprss:
strikes US as being true reflex of the opin.
ion of the masses of the party in that State
and elsewhere regarding the Third Term
proposition.
Year: 1875

THE jackson Democratic Association


after a recess of several months, held q


meeting last night with the same old crowd
in attendance, and succeeded in adding a
few names to the roll of membership. By
the full report of the proceedings published
elsewhere it will be seen the gentlemen
have been paying some attention to the
business Of THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.
As far as inquiring into the matter Of the
charges Cor the publication of the tax-list
is concerned, they had perfect right, both
as citizens and taxpayers. to do SO, but they
have no right, as men claiming to be honest
and conscientious, to make the willful mis-
statement of facts as they have done. The
ST. Louis tax-list referred to cost proper
tienately as much as did the District list,
and the only paper in this city that Mr..
Norris and his associates applied to for In
formation on the subject made reply that
they would and had charged the District
Year: 1875

THE moral effect of the Force bill, So
called, as law upon the statute books,
would have prevented the development OF
the Clinton riots, and the authorities would
not have been compelled to execute its pro-
visions to preserve the peace. The mem
ory of the manner in which the Ku- Klux
were punished would have been sufficient
to repress the mob of White League rioters
if they had not known that no law is in ex-
istence under which they may be punished
by the courts of the General Government.
As it is, the absence of such law, together
with the encouragement extended to the
Southern Democracy by the trucking con-
ciliation of dough-faced Northern Republi,
cans, has borne its legitimate fruit.
Year: 1875

IT is THE moral belief of the ex-slave-
holders of the South that their slave prop
erty was wrongfully wrested from them by
the Government. They, consequently,
Justify themselves in their attempts to rule
the colored people by the assumption that
they are entitled by right to be considered
and to act as their masters. 1t is this as
sumption that sustains them in their efforts
to deprive the blacks of their rights as citi-
zens, and they will continue these efforts
SO long as they can do SO without incurring
the penalties of the law.
Year: 1875

BISHOP HARE repudiates Mr.. Welsh, and
declares that his statements do not have
the approval OF the Episcopal committee.
This we have all along suspected. Bishop
Hare's name closes the long list of wit
nesses to whom Welsh has appealed, and
they have all either been proved to be
thoroughly unreliable or have repudiated
him as an infamous falsifier.
Year: 1875

THE New York so-called Great Dailies
were ominously silent yesterday on the
subject of the Mississippi riots. The truth
is there is not one among them having in
its employ single writer who is honest
enough to give to the public an intelligent
and truthful opinion regarding such oc-
Year: 1875

National testimonial as 1t deserves to be,
but it ought to be during the early days
Of the next session of Congress. Every
one will say it is right that the heroine of
Newport harbor should wear the National
decoration Of the brave and humane.
Year: 1875

If the Women's Temperance Association
established the Holly Tree Inn for the purpose
of advancing the interests of their cause, why
do they compel their regular boarders to
seek their Sunday meals In restaurantsl
Year: 1875

Governor Allen, of Ohio, is breaking down
under the severe canvass he is making. He
attempted to speak at Warren day or two
ago, but after g rambling and disjointed
effort of forty-fIeII..minutes' duration he was
obliged to leave the hall.
Year: 1875

Mr.. jefferson Davis, in a letter to
Gov. Kemper of Virginia, expressing
his inability to be present at the dedi-
cation of the Statue of Stonewall
jackson, says; "The admiration and
affectionate remembrance with which
l regard our departed hero would
make it particularly gratifying to unite
with you in the manifestation of the
respect which all who knew him must
feel for that unwavering patriot and
distinguished soldier"
Year: 1875

SAYS Mr.. BEEcHER: l know of no
charm, no specific, which being ad-
ministered as a medicine will break
out revival of religion. My own
experience has been that it is not
best to seek to bring about revivals
by any special means except SO far
as they exist in ourselves. I see
more good stuff wasted by longing
for a revival than you could measure.
If instead of wanting revival, men
wanted more of Christ Mensselces;, il
they had clearer insight into their
own worthlessncss; if they were


more profoundly humble; if they felt
more deeply and continuously what
a privilege it is to be allowed to do
the poorest work, in the poorest
place, with the poorest results even
Year: 1875

if they had sense of divine sympa


thy that made the name of Christ al
most bring tears to their eyes all the
time, then they would be in condi-
tion to work for a revival. In short
those who would work for a revival
should forget the reciUaI and work
for God an their oao'a souls. If that
deepening personal feeling is expert
encedby another,and you and that per
son come together, and ifa third and a
fourth can be drawn into it, then you
will begin to have drops coming to-
gether, and you will very soon have
so many drops that a current will
start, and there will be your revival.
The beginnings ought not to be so
much in the increase of machinery
though that is not wrong, because
machinery has relation to building.
Every revival begins in deeper
sense of God in some soul, and then
in some souls. When two or more
come together in that element a cur
rent starts, and that in the begin
ming of a revival.
Year: 1875

For the refinementsand the eiegan-
cies and adornments Of life, l cast
my vote. While / was thinking
over this subject, there was handed
into my house a basket Of flowers,
paradisiacal in their beauty. White
calla with green background of
begonia; heliotropes nesting among
geraniums; sepal, corolla, and per-
ianth showed the touch of Gods fin
gers. In the snow of the sscamelia,
in the fire-dye of the rose, in the
English violet, l learned that


GOD LOVES ADoRNMENT.


He might have made this earth so as
to satisfy the gross demands of sense,
but left it without adornment or at
traction. Instead OF the variegated
colors of the seasons, the earth might
have worn a dress of unchanging
dull brown. The trees might have
put forth their fruit without the pro-
phecy OF leaf or blossom. Niagara
might have let down its waters in
gradual descent without thunder
and winged spray. But no! Look
out, on some Summer morning, after
a heavy night-dew, and see whether
or not God loves jewels. Put a
snow fake under q microscope, and
see whether God does not love ex-
qnisite architecture. He decreed
that the breast-plate of the priest in
olden time should have a wreath of
gold, and the hem of his garment
should be. worked into figures of
pomegranate. When the world
sleeps God blankets it with the bril-
liants of the night sky, and when it
wakes he washes it in the Furnished
laver of the sunrise.


But it is sabsolutelynecessary that we


DRAwA LINE


between that which is the lawful use
of beautiful adornment and that ex-
travagance which is the source Of so
much crime, wretchedness, and
abomination in our day. That is
sinful extravagance when you go in
to anything beyond your means.
That which is right for one may be
wrong for another. That which is
lawful expense for a queen may be
sinful outlay for a duchess. That
which may be economy for you with
larger income may he squandering
for me with smaller income. :
There are families hardly able to pay
their r0nt, and III debt to every
merchant in the neighborhood, who
sport apparel inapt for their circum-
stances, and run so near the shore
that the first misfortune in business
or the first besiegement of sickness
tosses them into pauperism. There
are thousands of


FAMILIES MOVING


from neighborhood to neigh borhood
staying long enough in each one to
exhaust all their capacity to get trus-
ted. They move away because the
druggists will give them no more
medicine, and the butchers will af
ford them no more meat, and the
bakers will give them no more bread