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ATLANTA WEEKLY CONSTII UTlQN. JANLffl RY 22. 1878.
The Atlanta Constitution
WEAKLY EDITION.
TERMS OF WEEKLY.
A tLASTA'S DRAMATIC SEASON
The onneent reader who ia in the
hahit of attending the theatre often
comes away marvelling that the new a-
j. ;>-rn are not swift to denounce the
rri*<l»o« rity that has played its poor
part upon the stage. We often have
comp'aintaof thin kind, and are as of ter
are corope.led to plead guilty to a sin
cere f etirg of sympathy for the poor,
overworked creatures who flit from
d ♦**■-!ng-room to stage and play their
:i t e parts made maudlin by a genera
and incurable inefficiency. We
perceive that they do the
heat they can, and, striv
w* we will, we do not feel it in ou
heartif to turn loose npon them the
pu iirent pens of our fiery young men
who are only too anxious to seize upon
a m arveling actor and (figuratively)
• hake him until his spangles rattle
» gain, and hia tin foil sceptre drops to
earth, a crushed and mangled thing
What good would be accomplished ?
11-re to to-day they are gone to*>mor-
n <>-, and harsh criticism would onl)
^rari-S another thistle to the many that
^B.riiig up in the path* of mediocrity.
^Pkhireover, there seems to he
^no resifetir.g the bland insiuua
lions of the oilydongued ad-
v in re agent who comes armed wilt
it# -tentiala and r<commendations from
all i he crowned heads of Kurope, and
)e:t'-rs of introduction from all the
presidents since the days of Washing*
ton. The innocent reader knows noth
ir g of all this, and it is perhaps well
that he does not.
The dramatic season in Atlanta ap
j«* rs to have just begun. It is true we
have had Miss Pomeroy and some
ott ers who came to us with a great
ll urish of trumpets, but after all is said,
it must lie confess*! that Miss P.ime*
r >y s acting was not altogether ade
#pute. The young man who wrote the
criticisms of her representations here,
i fried away no doubt by the exqui*-
itcly resonant diction and poetical
l.i.mor of the plays themselves, as well
as by the average excellence of the
company sent out by Manager Ford,
said some very nice things of the
y *ung actress; and be is probably
vi iiling to admit now that his entbusi
antic admiration for everything Sfiak
sprrian led him a step beyond justice;
I >r the truth of the matter is, the young
1 »«ly who supported Miss Pomeroy is
by all odds the most capable actress of
t .oe two. Those who have ever had the
g mm! fortune to see Mrs. Chanfrau play
the part of “Rosalind,” and who have
a’rto s -<*n Kiss Pomeroy in tha same
r-tle can understand the wide difference
that exists between the conception of
mi artist and the mere stagey perinea*
of an amateur.
It may be said, therefore, that the
r<*al dramatic season of Atlanta
Hugorated by Mrs. Chanfrau, who
< lotted a successful engagement here
last evening. Of this lady it may lie
truly said that she is one of the most
tiuished actresses on the stage. If she is
surpassed by Clara Morris as a delinea
tor of the emotions, it is an exaggerated
intensity of expression and not in the
purity and naturalness of her style,
Mrs. Chanfrau invests every character
she assays with the grace, refinement
and sweetness of true and pure woman-
hood; and in thi* art is aided by an i
stinct as subtle and as unerring as gen
ius can make it. The methods of Mrs
Chanfrau are neither stormy nor
ring, except mm pathos stirs. She j
tiagedy queen, hut she delineates with
exquisite grace and rare delicacy the
emotiona that sweep over and sway the
hnman heart.
1 luring the season, too, we shall
have Mr. Lawrence Barrett, perhaps
I he most original and scholarly actor
on the American stage. As an inter
preter of Shakespeare’s wonderful
heroes nf tragedy, Mr. Harrell has
rival only in Edwin llnith, h it as the
methods «if the two, as well as tLeir in
terpi»tation,are so utterly unlike, it
perhaps unfair to classify them as rivals
Those who have seen these actors as
character of Hamlet will un-
el life great gull that devidesthe
genius of the one from thegemnaof i!
other. Mr. Booth has taken the old
conventional llamlet that had
been kn ran to the stage for genera
tions, invested it with his genius anu
made of it a figure at once picturet-que,
powerful and passionate—a figure long
to l»e remembered. Mr. Barrett, with
the critical eye of a scholar and i|*e
stinct of genius, has given us an inter
pietation, picturet-que indeed and |*o-
erfnl, h it subservient throughout to
subtlety of ar: utterly indesetiliable in
words. It is Hamlet, hut not the p to
crazed Hamlet our forefather* knet
He is not even the creature of a mono
mama. In Mr. Barrett’s bauds he
student and a gentleman, desperately
wounded with grief and made crafty by
suspicions, lie is Ilimlet, keen and
watchful—Hamlet with a purpose
a most dread purpose. M
Barrett will open in “K chelieu,
and close with “David Garrick” and
“Shylock.”
Madame Jananschek will also short
ly appear at the opera bouse, and giv
our theatre-goers a taste of high art
tragedy. 1 he interpretations of Madame
Jananschek are massive in their com
plcteness—robust, muscular, vigorous
overpowering and fiery. Take her ren
dition of "Lady Macbeth" for instance
It is not angular, but her inanition—or
her art, as you pltra»e—endows it with
SHERMANS HAVE.
Through the courtesy of Manager
Huby, of the mercantile agency of
Mavra. B. G. Dan A Co., we have re
ceived “the failure figures far 1877"
According to the figures presented, the
failures in the United States for the
7 are 8,872 in number, being
220 leas than tor 1876, ia which year
t .ey were 9,092. The total liabilities
f r 1677 are stated at $190,(£9.000 aa
gainst $191,117,000 in 1876, or barely
half a million ol dollars ie-e. For the
nee quarters ending with September
t oo, the number ol failures sad les-
ened by 494. with a decline in liabili-
t ea of $4 320.000, as compared with a
simiar period in 1876, but the casual-
i es of the last quarter have been so
numerous and important, that the
ritio of improvement for the first nine
oontbs haa not been sustained. 8o
frequent of late have been ibe an
nouncements of suspensions, and so
much has occurred in the last few
months to impair confidence, that it i*
all the more gratifying to know that
toe figuies for the whole year d" show
a decreased number of disasters, with
oases somewhat leas.
The figures for the year are, however,
we fear, too good to hi true. The figures
for the last two months indicate a con-
lition that approaches general bank
uprey. Taking the figures for the past
year we find that one trader out of
eventy-three failed, whereas in 181
he ratio was only one in 108. Instead
of a steady diminution of failures, as
was the case in the panics of 1857 and
1861, we now witness, as the natural re
sult of the policy of contraction,
s esdy increase to stupendous
figures, from which there
daylight ahead. The cir
cular before us admits that the failures
within the past sixty days have been
more numerous and more important
than ever before’ in an equal period
-»nd yet it advocates the very policy
that brought these disasters upon us in
a season of great productiveness both
in precious metals and breadstuff*.
In Georgia, out of 7,308 traders, 103
failed, with liabilities of $1,181 631
This in a better showing than the state
has made since 187L In 1876 we bad
147 failures, their liabilities amounting
to $3,000.145. 1875 was, however, out
had year—the failures numbering 156
with liabilities exceeding six millions.
In Alabama, lastly ear, there were 43
failures, liabilities $690,000; in Soot*
Carolina 66 failures, liabilities $1 168,
in Florida, 11 failures, liabilities
$149,000, and in the thirteen southern
statem, excluding Maryland, Kentucky
and Missouri, there were 1,078 failures,
whose united liabilities amouuted to
$17,271 920
New York furnished more than one
fifth of the failores of the past year.
The number of her failures curiously
corresponds with the year in which
they occurred—1877. Pennsylvania
comes next, followed
der by Illinois, Massachusetts,
Ohio, California, In liana, Mich
igan and Connecticut. In the latter
state there were three times as many
failures as in Georgia and their liabili
ties exceed ours five times. The figures
of the year show that the south—“ruin
ed by war, retarded by misrule ami
ouly just recovering to a self sustaining
power of existence’*—is standing Sher-
manism better than any other section
of the country. And yet we lost
trader in 85 during the year. The
eastern states lost one in every fifty
eight.
THE EASTERN STRUGGLE.
THE y OR THE AS TER -V RAILROAD BONDS j A LX AS CHAR: NSW YORK, 13*7.
MR. HILL AND THE MONEY (jUKSTIO.
We see a good deal of foolish talk
onr exchanges about a movement
foot in Atlanta to ask Mr. Hill to re
s’gn. We have heard of no such move
ment. Such a thing may have been
mentioned on ihe street corners
some ever zealous enthusiast, who be
lieves as Thk Constitution does, that
Mr. Hill is utterly wrong in his finan
cial views, but that is all. Neither the
people of one section of the state, no
of any section, have any right to a<
Mr. llill to resign. He was elected
the legislature and repreients the
whole state on the floor of the senate
—albeit uoon the qu-atiou of the
moneliz a ion of silver lie represents,
wo lielieve a very inrignificjnt
only. S -nators lake their instruc
tnins from legislatures, and it is per
haps % tittle unfortunate that the Wg
islalure of Georgia will not convene
time to impress upon Mr. Ilill the
ceesity of givi-ig his vote upon pending
financial questions such direction
would aptly represent th will of the
people expressed through the joi
resolution of instruction which w*ju
undoubtedly be adopted by the general
assembly of Georgia In the mean
time, the most tha* cm lie done i
ssmre Mr. Hill, as we now do, that
vote npon the silver bill and kiudrt
measure-*, will lie far more seriously
c mst i u# d than he seems to amici pa;
A silver dollar must contain a dol
lar’s worth of silver or 412] grail
The law makts that much a dollar,
standard of value. And yet some luna
tic moved in the Wisconsin senate that
the silver dollar contain a dollar’s wor
of silver—a self-evident proposition.
If, says the Intei- Ox*an, he meant
say that the propose#! silver dollar sb \11
contain a dollar’s worth of silver reck
oued at present rates and on a g<
basis, he should have supplemented
his resolution with one declaring that
1. A cent shall contain one cent’
worth of copper.
2. A five cent piece shall contain five
cent’s worth of nickel.
3. A dime shall contain ten cent’
worth of silver.
4. A dollar greenback shall contain
do'lar’s worth of paper.
If Plevna was the Metx of the Turks,
the surrender in Schipka Pass was their
A ppomattox It left T u * key bofwleeely
down. It permitted the Russians to
pierce the Turkish centre with over
whelming forces. One half of the
Turkish forces in the field was left
powerlete in the fortresses of the quad
rilateral, while the only available army
defence against the invader was
left, by the vigorous moves of the
dashing Skobeioff and his fellow
generals, Radeteky, Murzky and
ictorious Gourkho, somewhere
south of S.fia, with its lines
communications cut and itself in im
minent dinger of capture. The Rus
sians are swarming on the south side
the Balkans, which has utterly ceased
be a line of defense. Whether
no Suleiman can bre »k through the
net-work of difficulties that the Russian
commanders have thrown about him,is
the most interesting miliary problem
the moment. Our dispatches will
tell the story, it may he to day. It ia
known that Pnillipopolia is in Russian
hands, and that the forces of the
cair are moving in reeistles*
strength towards Adrianople. This
city is only 137 miles from Constanti
nople. It was at Adrianople that
Diebetach dictated the treaty of 1829,
and the desire ot the Grand Duke
Nicholas to conclude the treaty of 1876
the same place, is both natural and
under the circumstances reasonable.
The capture of Sulieman’a army would
ceria nly give the Russians the choice
any place they might desire, and the
concession of Adrianople by the Turk
ish deb gates is therefore no concession
at all.
All through the past week, a terrible
panic prevailed among the people
of Roumelia. They realized that suc
cessful resistance was no longer possi
ble, and they fled, first, to Adriano
ple, next to Constantinople, and many,
is aaid, from fear of the all-conquer
ing Russians, to the ancient city if
Broussa, some fifty miles south of the
Bosphorus. Thus has begun the exodns
ot the Turks from Europe. They have
accepted fate without waiting for the
coming of the enemy to the gate*
Cona'antiropTe. Peace however
their only protection in Asia Minor.
Erzeroum is about to fall, and the Coe
sacks would quickly traverse the de
fenceless country that lies thence to
S-axnboul. Turkey ia simply and
wholly down. The heel of the con
querer ia ou her neck, and there ia no
hope from arms.
Peace of course is near at hand. Two
unfortunate pashas set out to find the
Russian headquarters, and that they
have succeeded in reaching the Grand
Duke Nicholas, there will be au armis
tice. What theu 7 The world waits to
know. It is useless to speculate on
the extent of the Russian demands,
when the conference at Aariancp’emay
disclose them before the speculations
ould get inti print. We only know that
the war between Turkey and Russia
is prsc’i wily ended. We do not know
what Eagiand may dj or what Austria
may do in the event that Russia dis
regards the treaty of peace the stipula
tions of the treaty of Pari i Germany
may or may not be in alliance with
Russia. France may or may not take
hand if England prepares to gobble
Egypt. What further complications
there may ba in the settlement of this
almost end!#** eastern question, we do
not know; and now that a conference of
the belligerents is about to be assem
bled, it is best to let speculation have
rest and awa*t the coming «f facts
Another week will doubtless place us
in pos-ession ol Russia's demands, and
that information alone will wunder-
fnlly clear up the situation.
N »ne of the above, valued by gri
au antique rugged ness that seems to are *drth their face new, and the W
‘ i‘erfeetly in keeping with the intin-
lions of the great poet. Nevertheless
this ruggedness is artistically sytuoiet
rival. It seems, in some messnre,
to account for the overreaching a mb;
tion of the w# man and, at the prope:
moment, nerves her heart with th#
masculinity that drives her husband to
his foul crime of murder.
Then we are to have Miss Anderson
ho has recent!v compelled ihe hab
erdasher-critics of the New York prcce
to acknowledge the surprising qualities
of her genius. It is noticeable, in thi*
connection, that Mu» Anderson acc >m
plitihed her metropolitan succcee in *
character for which her strong and
vgorous individuality tolsl.y unfit*
her. She appeared as “ Pauline ” in ib«
*• Lady of Lyons" but even in this ro>,
where it is impossible for the highest
genius to pioceed beyond tt e confine*
of a silly and weak sentimentality,
she excited the most enthusiast c ap
plause. ll is to be hoped thAt Mu*
Anderson, recognizing her own c«pa
bilities, which are of au order not mu
ally developed in one so your g. will se
lect a repeuolre suited to the wonder fa
range ii her talents, wi’hou falling
into the worn by-baths of merely emo
tional acting. Her visit to Atlanta wi
be an event in onr theatrical season.
Upon the whole, the outiool
is favorable to theatre-goers I j *’di
tion to those we have alreadv men
tinned, it is probable that, in the wa#
of comedy, we.have Sotbern, Raymond
and others, with qtrte a deluge o
waalWr attzaeriaaa «a tb« usual sort*
cousin lunatic should push his rtforu
to its login! limits.
cheat many things areexpn'ted
the forthcoming message of the pr#
.lent on civil service leform. & me
:he correspondents assert that he wil.
rcc mmecd that selections of po*tm
era in smaller towns be made by pop-
n’ar vote, nnd that the (Mistmaster gen
a' shall merely confirm the selection
made This plan was adopted
president’s own town in Ohio, and
said to have given great satisfaction.
coRRKM'vixnKNT w rues to ask
something about the Savannah col
exchscge. Bless von! we know noth
mg ab«.ut it. It wrnld probably nev
have been heard of outside of
poet office building in Savannah r.a*
they not met together one day
resolved" that so-andeo was
case, when every body else knew that
so and so wasn’t tne case. That’t
say of the Savannah c • ton exchange
The New York Tnbnue doesn’t want
he old radical department frauds
vestigated by the de me crate. These
nvestigatio-s are rm 1 her ironveniem
but, as the Tribune may well charge,
he dein crats are a terrible set for cli
eg to real is.- uw.
Tiie Augurs Chrumoe * .d Cm
lutionaliel wants Mr Hid to get up
the senate and answer Dan. W-hee*
arguments in favor of the remoaeiisa-
tioC ol silver. In what way baa
Ifift ever li< jur*d the editor of our
Alim* fooumpormry ?
It gives us great pleasure to announce
that Gov. Colquitt has signed the bonds
of the Northeastern railroad.
There has never existed a doubt in
our minds as to the validity of these
b >nda. While we are opposed to state
aid in any shape, and have a record to
that effect, we have never seen a loop
hole of escape from the responsibility
of these bonds, save positive and dis
graceful repudiation. The state had
plighted her honor to their payment
Her legal obligttion to pay them was
perfect; her moral obligation was, if
possible, stronger stilt
The governor himself, it is said,
never entertained any doubt as to the
fact that the state was morally obliga
ted for the guarantee of these bonds.
He withheld bis signature, aimply and
properly, because he desired to submit
the question of their endorsement to
the legislature, provided it could be
done without injuring any of the par
ties at interest. Could the road have
tided over ita troubles until next De
cember, he would have persisted in bis
decorous and patriotic purpose of sub
mitting the mooted question to the leg
islature. The exigencies of the road,
however, demanded instant action,
and the governor decided to settle the
matter and give it relief.
We have no doubt that he will be
sustained with great unanimity. Nd
one who looks into the matter at all,
can fail to see that the governor had
bat one course open to him. The road
entitled to the endorsement of its
bonds, and when it was demanded, the
governor did perfectly right in giving
iL He is sust.ined by a perfect mass
of opinions, any one of which would
oidinarily be conclusive, both in its sa
gacity and its integrity.
We congratulate our friends in
Athena, on the victory they have won,
and the results it will bring to their
prosperous and growing city. The
Constitution was the earnest and con
stant advocate of endorsement for a
long time. We need not
allude to our own sentiment
upon the subject but we do tbink it
proper to say that Atlanta, aa a city
aud a people, rejoices in Athena’ pros
perity and will take pride in her ad
vancement.
that it tr-iins the eo'dier’* mind to act! THF RTPIIR! IP.iN^ VQ K&YF9
quickly and to be habituated to sudden II1L nirUOllliWIa nAIfO.
J changes of plan. The director-general 1 — •••
j of military education to the British oa'jc of the old school dm
The daughter* lire Bifliaim d pretty— I army has prepared an exhaustive re-
~ 3, 1 *» , ?.k30w_ t hem you *•!» 1 port on the subject. He thinks that
under proper control cards have their
uses in the army, but is constrained to
1 *dmitth*t their introduction driven
out the chess-table and the draught
board, ard that the young lads t f the
I regiment s>on acquire an ^inordinate
passion for gambling.
But Mmuae’* rather more in my *;yl«.
By Georg#! It a fellow could marry.
1 nere’a a girl who would make it worth while!
Ihe Fall. Complete wad Accurate
Text or flte Hu* tt III! m L ( baw
dier** letter to the : epobllcau* ol
Mew ll*ui|i«blre.
Now a ting.e man iou't so troubl. d.
It * alway* good form at the club.
A* to Maude, she'd «*y v •* la a minute.
If I a#ked lor her hand, l dare lay:
Sort, white hand—if a fortune were in it.
POLITICAL COMMAS T.
If I arked lor her hand, l dare
Sort, white hand—if a fortune
I’d **k her to have me to-day , OT44N _.._ ...
F.tijerncnr w e u. JOU «nuw IW. to koo.-1 hiB eJ;e on Voorb ^ xtit bouquet
How a man will cut up till he’* dead
HaTe I looked at hi* tax-list? I'm going
To do it, old boy, that’s well aaid!
Bat even rich fathers *
willing
r — *
They’ll say they began with
Aud thins tou can do it you _
paper, juat there? The “Home
What 1
Journal?*
What * the new* lo society, eh?
Engaged now: Now. by all tne i nit mai
lt can’t be, pass it over thi# way.
- It behooves Mr. Hendricks to keep
his eye on Vcorhees. That bouquet
has kindled presidents! hopes already.
| —New York Tribune, rep.
—It might just as well be mentioned
now. The election of Mr. Pendleton
to the United States senate will
have a tendency to crush the while
house longings which are known to oc
casionally twinge a corner of his noble
heat.—Washington Post. dem.
—Just about fifteen years ago Genera!
‘Reception •“Club breakfast*’—Grand I George B. McClellan, commanding the
army of the Potomac., was ordered tr
turn over his command to General
Burnside and “report at Trenton, N. J.”
Time has ita little revenges.—Phila
delphia Press, ind.
—The $10 bond proposition seems to
have struck a full chord in the popular
heart. It would prove rather hard on
savings banks, but not a few savings
banks have been rather hard on the
people, and turn about is fair play. —
Press Pith, ind.
—The contest grows warmer between
Youugeat daughter of Thomas O Sklunar.
The marriage will take place In May.’*
Ua&g the girt for a flirt-the deuce take her!
Well, what are you laughing at, eh?
—Mia. M. P. Bandy, in Scribner’s.
IS GENERAL.
unless Hayes should be counted in and Immediately appointed collector of over 40 majority, which the previous
SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA.
By reference to the daily proceedings
of the supreme c r inrt it will be seen that
the August term, 1877, adjourned to
court in course on yesterday. The
January term, 1878. convenes on Mon
day. Hence the judges and officers of
this overworked tribunal have bat a
vacation of one day, and that the Sab
bath. Over three hundred cases have
been argued and decided at the term
just adjourned.
Should litigation increase on ac
count of the adoption of the new
constitution, thus causing new
questions, and the reduction in the
amount of coats therein contained, it
will be impossible to dispoee of the
busiueas within the time allowed by
law. Bit “ suffic : ent onto the day is
the evil thereof.” We presume (he
legislature can in some way provide for
such a contingency, either by an ap
propriate enactment or by a constitu
tional amendment
We tiust tiie judges and officers will
ci j y their brief vacation.
A (JUSS i ION OF PAIR IOUSM.
We hi.ve a great admiration for the
New Y rk Sun and its editor. ’ Mr.
I)«na has accomplished a great work ii
thee tube of lion* sty and reform. He
is a little savage at times, in his enti
ciems i f publ.c men and manners, but
his severity is a*ways in behalf of right
as against wrong. Frequently, howev
er, his z>al leads him to misunderstand
b .th men and nieasuree ( as,lor instance,
in llus matter of mvesf’g/ting Mr.
Hayes’s title, he totally misapprehends
the attitude of the democracy. Id
various editorial articles recently
we h*ve already indicated
what that atiitn le is and the reasons
therefor, and it is unele-ts to go over the
ground again, but the following from
the £un is so suggestive that we can
not refrain from presenting it here
Mr. Dana emphasizes the first sen
tence by printing it in Italic?:
Th* iitnvcratic jarly it not patriotic i fit ft an It
filthily fr.. Kit A fotdtd uma*, awl ttt* ou
ffiiTtrnmeut oi -ithroini by fraud. Bai the
*i!y against Mr. liayrs ih nut by arm-b
We would advifo Mr. Dins that the
fraud has already lieen accomplish
We would advice him, moreover, that
it was accomplished under the
eyes of the northern people, who alone
had power to prevent it. Why should the
editor of the Hun, knowing as he does
that the northern people are reaponri
ble for the great presidential swindle,
be guilty of such nonsense as to de
clare that “the democratic party ia not
; atriotic if it stands silently by, with
folded arms, and sees cur fre<i govern
ment overthrown by fraud?" The
fraud has been consummated. The
democratic party did stand silently by
and witness the consummation, but it
was because one-half of the organiza
tion represented a people almoet out
lawed bv the verv loyalty which
was mo6t active in perpetra.
ring the stupendous political
crime of cheating the country
out of ita rightfully elected president.
The party could do nothing. No, Mr.
L>aoa! the hands of the democracy are
clean. The people cf the Rorih are
the guilty ones. If they did not con
nive at the fran 1, they tt least sequi-
«j*s3ed in it when they alone
ivwek TO PREVENT it.
—The result of the war seems to vin
dicate Mother Shipton.
—Patti has a new gown that ia half I the people and the bondholders. The
cloth of gold and half ruby velvet. people demand relief from the severe
-In 1877 fifteen veterans oi the war *tich they are
of 1812 were gathered to their lathere. *' 1 »>je ct «?, and the bondholders ask
i . more privileges. The people demand
, n!il y * 8 iT e ? °* rebef of the government, and if they
the 6<0 students in the Boston Uuiver-1 f^|| ^ nex t ac j will be repu-
sity are women. I diction.—Rome Bulletin, dem.
“Tbe ycung lords complain that I —It was specially urged that Maine
their new stepmother keeps aloof from had ^ nt Blame to the senate and some
“ iem * , , I people seemed to fear he would swal
—Chicago waa favored with 19,928 low the south, and break up the gov-
arrivals and clearances of vessels in I eminent, if Bjn Hill was not there to
1877, while New Y’ork had only 10,739 ( I curb his wrath, and majtt him keep hie
—There is a rumor that JudgeSwayne, 1 mouth shut. We dounT not there are
who was district attorney for Ohio under I thousands in Georgia who huzzied over
President Jackson, intends to write n| the election of Hill, now wish Norwood
history cf that sturdy person’s times. I back again. Men of great eminence
—A huge lioness, the pride of the St. J 1 * not the be* statesmen.—
Lsmis zoological gardens, is dead. Three I Summerville Gazette, dem-
physicians were called in, but they —We have no desire to upset the
couldn't save her. 1 country. Of course not. Neither do
—England has areal live centenarian we t* an * to subject trade to another
in a dignitary of the church—Canon I *hock of paralysis. But, if Mr. Haves
Bsadon. Never do any brain work alter I purchased the silence of the Lonisiapa
dinner, is one of his prescription! for j S^'
n . 1 x- , . , . . I W F‘ U,B I iUOUIk kUBL Hit CVlUtilLt Iff
YoongV nineteen widow. I received. That won’t convulse Un
divided the proper time of widowhood country. It won’t even put Mr. Til.len
between them bo that it should not fall! into the office to which he was eheted.
very heavily upon either, and some ot It „iu „i m ply make clear to the moei
them have already married again. obdurate mind the fact that Mr. Hayes
—A subsidy of $120,000 has been I ia a usurper and a fraud. Not all
granted by the Peiuvian government I frauds are punished in this world—nor,
to a company which will establish a I for that matter, all usurpers. Lot the
line of steamers to Hong Kong. The! truth be kuown.—Washington Post,
freedom of the country and eighty J dem.
cents a day are offered by 6ug»r plant- I The situation very clearly shows that
ere for coolie laborers. I the interest of New Orleans is with the
—The debts of all the cities in Mas- I west and in the western movement
sachusetts but three—^Tall River,Taun- against the arrogant east. From the
ton and Newton— have decreased du- l great west we may expect tra le.acd
ring the year. The total decrease is I wealth and power; from the cities ot
$2,071,623, and the total increase $164,-1 the eastern seatnaid we can expect only
360. I rivalry, or rather only a policy that will
-A !son of Sam Sloan, l the railroad keep 113 a . n , d al1 °‘ her southern cities in
king, was married in Syracuse, N. Y., ct >J nm ®rct a l vasaalage. Tne bear inter-
Tuesday. torn German barmaid, against I e8ta *be country demand that the
Ihe protest of LiaUther, who, aa a pun- Tv® 7 I T e , r ’ tl “ ! 1 c0 “ miert '? 1 V' r ?, u ? y
i&hment, has dismissed him from the I A i,k a J? d lke ea8t fi ball be
menrgement of one of the branches of broken down But .hat can never be
the Delaware, Lackawauna and West d f"? whlle ,he financial policy
ern railroad. I °* the government plays directly into
1 the hands of the mighty power of the
Coscian, N H.. Djc 26, 1877-
To the Republicans of Xetc Jlamj-shire:
my privilege aud duty as your
representative on the republican na
tional committee to st^te to you the
reasons for my host' i y to the so called
southern policy of tho administration
of Pres'.dent Hayes.
I.
The presidential campaign of 1876
ias carried on with no announced
hange of ihu p mciplesof the republi
can party concerning the southern
states lately in rebelli. n.
The Oiuciunari convention had de
clared the republican party to be “sa
credly pledged” to the complete pro
tection of all their rights.” “We de
clare it to be the s.'lemu obligation oi
the legislative and executive depart
ments oi tho government to put in im
mediate ex* rcieoall their constitutional
powers * * * for sectirirg to every
American citizen complete liberty aud
exact equality in the exercise of all
civil, political and public rights. To
this end we imperatively demand a
congress aud chief executive whose
courage and fidelity to these duties
shall not falter until these rcsul's are
placed beyond dispute or rt call.'
Mr. George William Curtis, in the
convention, had commended his favor
ite candidate as one who, “armed with
the power of the government of the
United States as district attorney of
Kentucky, huntrd and hunted and
huuted the ku*klux uutil the ku klux
disappeared. Tne life of every man in
Thera ore other remedie*. but I do not l*ke to
ptrishe* where there are three black men t
white man. that he has the right of self #life. oe;
l at who wishes to even «mtse*t. or intimate, or
anticipate such honor* ? Who wishes to see a
war of rrevs? Yet, rather than see what has
occurred at L mtsiaua, those meu will learu •
* • that they can resent these outrage*; that
the negro can deteud hia cabin, his wite, his
Children from these outrages, aud that he will
t*e justified bv the laws of C»od ar.d man in re-
P i-in< these assault* whither they come bv
>* *> or by niaht. 1 do uot wont to see this done.
1 fe ir it. and jrtt it will come • • • unless
ycugiveto iheneerres the riKht* which ar«>
secured to laewby thee nsutution of the United
Nbw Orleans, ' Pickard's court was year had been republican by 35 ma-
struck down, and the Nicholls mob j rity.
E yvernment reigce#i tupreme. The! In Massfichusetls, where the new
a main was iu every way fulfilled, policy was most cfftwa’vely thrust
and Mr Biuke had no occMOQ, as had | down tho throats of repub ictus, of tne
been threatened, to make public the 150063 vote's for H tyes, who gave mm
secret agreement, ll tyes had been ! 42 000 *raj rity over 'lilden, over <0,-
madc president bv the fidelity aud I (H.H) refused to vole for G v. nice in
courage i f Packard and Chamberlain J 1S77. ai d the mnj rity against him
d it was only by the support
aud money of the organized rmnscllera
of the stale, and ov«r 10.0J0 demo
cratic vines procured by rum iLfluence
tint he pr cured his election by a pla
in further pun-unnee of the bargain j ratiiy, and the at ate was saved from the
and their devoted f 4lowers, and his
admic ittration had trampled
down.
V.
A GENTLE PROTEST.
Ii the Washington correspondence
of the (| lit man (Ga.) R< parser, we find
the following:
It is Mid that Hoi A'ex II. Stephens wil'
sppeal tot*e house early in the comii.g session
for tt e removal of political disabilities from all
now resting under them. Mr Stephens bos so
fully Uie esteem acd regard of every member of
the house, aud hi* course baa bwn so moderate
iu all things since the close of the war, that the
advocacy of this desirable measure will come
with p collar grace and power fr-.m him.
We hope Mr. S’ephens will do no
such hing. It is any thi g but graceful
for fcuch a raov meat to c me from the
« nth. It partakes of the character of
a petition from the weak to the strong;
from an inferior to a superior. The
north imposed the disability, and the
“peculiar grace” and fitness of remov
ing it belongs to the north alone. And
she will do it if she is sincere in her
profession!* in favor of perfect reconcili
atiou. We have only wondered that
Mr. Hayes, with all the boldness of his
policy cf pacification, has up to this
time lacked either the courage or the
magnanimity to recommend the strik
ing cfl of every tetter that shackles
the limbs of American freemen.
The Washicg’on correspondent of
the St. Linis Republican says that Mr.
Hill has b*en chosen to answer Mr.
Vtiorhees’s speech, wh'ch he will en
deavor to do, it is said, by ridiculing i*.
After the general onslaught on his
maiden# fl «rt,Mr Voorhees will appoint
him-eit for an hour’s speech, m which
he will “warm up * considerably more
than he did on Tuesday last
Tue foreign relations committee had
up last week Mr. Uilliaid’s nomina
tion to Brasil, bat no progress was
made. The dem ocrats are not enthu
elastic over the nomination. There are
many candidates fortbe place, and the
pressure of their claims operates
donbtlers to lesson Mr. Hilliard’s
chance for confirmation. In the mean
time he is serving and drawing pay.
The fioal vote in the house on the
sixteenth or female suffrage amend
ment stood 107 for and 140 against
Mr. Stephens and Mr. Whitthorne, of
Tennessee, were the only southerners
that voted for the resolution. Mr. Ste
phens asya he voted f >r it because be
thought the best and quickest way to
get rid of a stupid woman was to 1st
her “have her nav out and go.”
Iu reproducing the resolutions of the
Savannah cotton exchange a few days
■go, for the purposes of comment, we
ventured to suggest that tbev by no
means represent t the views of even a
arge minority t f he citizens and busi
es? men < f ;hat city. Our opinion is
cot fi med by notomy ir* pr vs!e letter*
we have receiv«»d from Savannah, but
by the statements of t he Morning News.
Our contemporary asserts that the ac
tion cf the co:ion exchange certainly
misrepresents the known opinions of a
very Urge rm? j »rity oi the p .-op’eof S>-
vanr.r.h— cit : zers and business men—
and adds that if it were necessary to
tare aa expression cf their views a
mass meeting wou d speak with no un
certain sound. It is to be hoped the
meeting wit) be he d
It comes to pass that some of the
ucrihern republic*n papers are com
plaining of the volume cf northern
claims. We hav .* been laboring an itr
the impression ail along that i: was
these rebel claims ih*l wtre worrying
the faithful.
It was Morton’s dyins request that
Filley should be reappointed postmas
ter at Liuia. 1: i» ha;d, bet Schuix
wfci waws to sua-4 it-
The senate committee on public
buildings and grounds has agreed to
recommend the purchase by the gov
ernment, of the freedman’s bank build
ing in Washington. This will give the
depositors of the trap set by the radi
cal politicians another dividend of
twenty p*-r cen*.
Isn’t thi» discussion iu regard to the
speakership of the next house of
representative*, which the newspaper
correspondents threaten to inaugurate,
a tr fie premature 7
The chances are very g^od lor cheap
bread durirg the enuring s : x months
The prospect of peace in Europe is
having au eflec: upon the breads tuffs
market.
Victims cf civil service reform—Ed
munds, postmesrerat Washington, and
FI ley, postmaster at S-.. L -uis. Let the
ball continue hi roll.
When Lob Irg^reoii rises and i
there ia no hell, he inadvertently does
injustice to the deserts oi Lis radical
brethren.
It teems that Schnrz did resign, but
3Ir. Hayes wouldn’t let him go. Scburz
is an exceedingly handy man to have
around.
Sitting Bull and his uibe are not an
arrow-minded people. The) use breech
loaders.
ScHCB* is the only member o* the
cabinet who hoe threatened to reaigm
This le a pco4 a pa
—Gov. Young, of Ohio,has nominated I btnks aud monopolies which haveeju*
Chauncey Nswton, of the Cincinnati Eu- I cent rated all the money power of the
quirer, to be commissioner of railroads country there. There is to be a war of
and tel« graphs. Mr. Newton is an I ideas and interests between the east on
earnest democrat, but Governor Young ihe one hand and the south aud west
thinking him a man suitable for the | on the other, and the Bouth and west
place, sent his name to the assembly. I want money to make the war with.-
—Lieutenant Bullis, the hero of the New Orleans Democrat, dem.
Mexican raids, is a man of thirty, with — Under the shadow of a general im
jetty hair und mustache; about five I presston that specie payment in an ex
leet eight inches in height, and a mod I elusive gold coin, the* value of proj»erty 4
el cf physical strength and endurance. 1 lands, buildings, live stock, and all tne
He has served on the Texas frontier I produce of labor is declining, fading
for the last eleven years, and is now in I away; the means of living are dwin-
cr mmaud of an effective company of dheg, production is arrested, labor and
Seminole tcjrnts. machinery ure idle, and the piuper
“Gold hairpins may be had now I tramp are taking the place of the
for nine dollars r dezen,” saves fashion I thrifty, industrious workmen. While
item. Thai’s all very nice in print, tho * old , d . ollar rnmg in value, the
but while this financial business is so accumulations of lab .r are sinking *~
foil of rough sleddings as at present va |. ue * Alow long is the nation to am
nearly all the tender creatures will I B ^Ai n S? er p r0 5f*® • bliLll we wail
continue to button their shoes with the 1 u , ‘“ e c ?, un , l J^ b^c »mcs one general
old-fashioned ten cent kind. alms-house ? Until every acre of land
Griffin, Texas, >. supported almoet ^ heenffiTep
^ r'k wltf/the lant l fcs < n/ 1Un | ! | er rM foreclosure to pay deb’s iu gold
work with the tactics of welhorganized aollarB of exaggerated value ? Sparta
skirmishers and huodreds of bufftloes Xim e 8 and Plf n . dem.
^^iTtoW^n l - t ch lhe “'■»■} »«
meat commands a gcod price A skill- ^" annah c ‘«on exchange,while l m»y
„ ,. , _ iog, certainly mihreprerents the known
The Cauadtans have secured a I opinions of a very large majority of the
spice of fifty feet square in the centre business men and citizens of Savannah,
ot the mam tower of the entrance of I who heartily endorse and approve the
the foreign department of lire Pans ex- course of our distinguished a id faith
position—a most advantageous situa f u | aeuator, General Gordon, ana ou.
non—for the erection of a trophy of I equally faittifulaud reliable delt^gatioi
Canadian products 110 f«iet high. | iu congress, on the silver question. As
—English authors produced aud had I will be seen by our Atlanta #li» p itch,
printed last year 3019 hooks. There j the people of that city—the immediate
were also sold 2,046 new editions, I constituents of Mr. Ilill—meet-to-night
making the total book production of to give expression to their disapproval
England 5 096. against 4,888 the prece- of that gentleman's opposition to the
ding year. F ction, of course, is the I silver bill. Ii it were necessary to have
moet numerous clasf; after that comes I an expression of the will of the people
theology and then education, juveniles of Savannah-if such a public demon
and history and biography. stration were needed to eneour »ge aud
—Old style Yirginiansars represented sustain our representatives, or if it
to be indignant because Governor Hoi- I would be likely to influence the ac’ion
liday, after all the pomp of his inaugu- I *>/ corgreea-a similar meeting of our
ration,had locked up all the plate in the cit uns would speak with no unceitain
executive mansion and gone to a hotel voice on thiagieatand vital question of
to board In ante-bellum iinies,they say, I deliverance, right and justice.—Sav.
the governors ot the Old D •tiiiuioc en I nth News, dem.
tertaineii iu princely style, spending —Mr. Hill was placed in his present
dt nblc.and often four times as much as 1 high position by a col tiding constim *n-
their salaries. cv to represent the interests of these who
- „ , ^ „ r •-# i placed him in power. Ho knows that
In the forenoon of life a man has {Jj,, present course is opposed to everv
i idea that it would take a mighty big I interest of his section in the uniou. He
church to hold his friends if they I k now8 that it is oppression to the work-
should all l>e drawn to the same Banc- I j U g people of the country. He knows
tuayy at, the same time. But ere the that he ia acting treasonably to the best
?*“L I8 L b ^.?SLl“ eecond set of | intereet of his coneiituents That in
stead of asristiug to lift the yode of op-
. . .. .. -. . . , pressive tax from the hard working
ther^tatet would not be much crowde.! Uo rere ..h*t he is adding to ita weight
■I they ahonl i all ait down together to Ill8 . ead of enabling thoee upon
wmm their ieet--Breaklaat Table. w nom the strength and power
—List year the last Pnnce of Lusig- of the government rest, to de-
nan, a common workman, died in pov* velope this power fir the genera! good,
ertv in a Milanese hospital, leaving that he is filling the whole laud with
several children, all girla. Qieen Mar-1 “tramps” and wanderers hunting work
guerite, of Italy, haa now taaen one of and finding none. That his course h=»s
the daughters aa one of her waiting I a ten tency to mak« the rich
women, while the government haaap- wealthy and bring th» p »oi
propriated to the use of another a sum Knowing all of this, if Le Pus one grain
sufficient to carry her through her I of honesty in his whole organism, he
course at the normal school and fit her I will resign and come home, and give
for a school teacher. The Marquise I Georgia an opportunity to put an hon
d’Arragona will clothe her and fmmah est man in his place, who has the power
her with a weddirg portion should she I to resist temptation and not betray
marry. I the best interests of its citizens.—6eaosa
—Hon. George W. Childs, of Pails- I Form aud Home,
detphia, was present at the marriage of ]
Longfellow’s daughter and Richard
Dana, at Cambridge last Thursday. I
Mr. Childs gave his o.d friend’s daugh
ter a handsome neck chain and locker.
It was an occasion where all feeling of I
poetical rivalry was suok in social en- 1
the south is safe in the hands of this
man from Kentucky, who has known,
as you of the south have bitterly
learned, * * * the mortal perils of
tue struggle.”
Gov. Hayes, in his letter of acc ?p
tance, endorsed the resolution--, and
-pecially declared himself in favor of
“the complete protection of all citizens
in the free enjoyment of all their con
stitutional rignta.” “What the south
needs most is peace, and peace depend-
upon the supremacy of the law. Tnere
can be no enduring i»eace if the consti
tutional rights of any portion of the
people are habitually disr# girded.”
Tne candidate for vice-president, the
Hou. William A Wheeler, anuounced
it to be the mission of the party to se
cure “to every American citizen com
plete liberty aud exact equality in the
exercis* of all civil, political, and pub
lic rights. This will be accomplished
only when the American citizen, with
out regard to color, shall wear the pan
oply of citizenship as freely and secure
ly in the cauehrakes of Louisiana as on
the banks of the S:. Lawrence.”
The presi ential campaign was car
ried on, so tar as methods and utter
ances were concerned, in no respects
differently from tbe campaigns cf 1868
and 1872. The duty of the federal g \-
ernmeut to intertere by all puss, ble
constitutional aud Lgal means for the
protection of life aud Iree ballot at the
sout i, was the principal i sue of the
coitest The * bloody shirt,” aa it is
termed, was freely waved, and Gov.
Hayes himself urged prominent public
meu to put forward as our h st argu
ment, the dangers of “rebel rule and a
s did south.”
Ou the 8th of November, when hi
thought himself defeated, he uttered
these wouls:
1 do no; care for my-elf, • • • but I do
ire for the t<oor colored men of the »oi
• • Northern men cauuot live there,
will leave. * ° • The eoulhera p.-oide
oractically treat tbe couMitulioual aucudmi
* nutliti •*, an»l then the colored mail's
ill b- wont -than when be was iu alav .
• • That is the ouly runou 1 regret the
new* is as it u.
Ou the main issue the necessity of
keeping federal power in republican
hands and using it for the protection of
black aud while southern republicans
waa tbe presidential c.vmpaign, by Gov
Hayes’s advice and procure rnent,
ried on aud won.
e be ga
to toe win. vp, uu u»e ciouok tuat are now lower
ing upon our hou». will hu>k away, and be in
tae deep botom of the ocean buried.
Witii substantial unanimity the re
publicans of the country seconded the
determination of their representatives
in cougress to declare and achieve the
election and inauguration of Presidsut
Hayes; aud the republican party was
never more courageous, harmouious,
or united than on the day of his as
cension.
III.
Coming to the presidency under
these remarkable circumstances, what
should have been President Hayes’s
course?
1. Unquestionably he should have
asserted, in every possible way, the
moral aud legal validity of hisowu title,
and of every step taken by his pro
curement or desire in the long series of
events which established it.
2. He should have maintained faith
ful and scrupulous allegiance to the
principles of the republican party, by
proclaiming which the victory had been
won, and to the men of that party
whose unprecedented efforts and cour
age had elevated him to a station of the
highest honor and power as its repre
sentative
3 Above all, be should have avoided
any yielding or concession to the dem
ocratic party, from which the presiden
cy had been so suddenly, unexpectedly,
aud exasperatingly wrested.
It is inconceivable that any wise
honorable man should be williug to
take tbe presidency, and then suffer or
effect auy taint upon his own title.
Gov. Huyes had it in his power at any
moment from Nov* tuber 7 to March 4
to avoid the responsibilities ol th%*
office, but thought not of doing it. On
the contrary, at every stage in the
progress of the countings, state and
natioi al, his "ctive iniiueuce was pres
ent through his couusel, agents, aiul
intimate friends pr* saing forward the
struggle. Nut declining, but eagerly
demanding and taking the place, it
necessarily follows that he was bound
to maintain tbe integrity of his claim
thereto, and of the other means by
which it was made effectual. Any other
course would be sure to bring deeeived
II.
LOUISIANA SNA VAH.
Tbe I#tarsia* Board oa Trial.
New Orleans, January 19 —The
t . i,-. . , i members of the returning board were
* bo phrased the story I arraigned in the superior criminal
of “Evangeline and sung “Hiawatha,” court. T ie indictment charges them
*bo ranks first among < bituary with ferg} y and with altering the re-
balladists, sat down. together, com- turns oi v'e» non parish. Counsel made
a morion to quash the indic'ment on
the ground that the proceedings were
irregular. The motion was overruled
without argument. The members of
the boFr 1 then pleaae 1 not guilty, and
were; admitted to b .il on their old
bonds. Tae day ot trial is uc.i fixed.
—Tbe marriage of the Hon. Wynd-
ham Stanhope, a son of the Eirl of
Harrington, to Miss Camille DuBoie, a
pretty actress and vocalist, formerly a
member of the Lydia Thompson troupe,
still txcites the wonder of London so
ciety. A correspondent says: Miss
Camille Da Bois has passed unscathed
through all the temptations of London
life—temptations so great that few out
siders understand the almost superhu
man strength it requires in an admired
actress to resist them—and, in view of
thi?, the young woman, who may some
day htcome Counters oi Harrington, is
to be congratulated upon exceptional
strength of character.”
—Tbe neatest and newest thing ia a
pink wedding, such aa was solemnized
in the parish church of Melton Mow
bray tbe other day, when Miss Ceciie
May Isabella Markham, a sister of the
C untesa Annesley, in white satin and
lace, was married to Mr. Cecil D* Agui
lar Samuda, who with the numerous
dukes, earls and honorables who atten
ded him, was attired in hunting cos
tume, p>nk jacket, top boots and all. It
waa an enormous swell affair, and a ride
with the Duke of Rat.sod's bounds
took the place of the wedding break
fast.
—Shall soldiers be allowed to play
cards 7 In the Frer ch and German ar
mies card-playing has been encouraged
tbe grounds tnaS, like dominoes,it ia
OffrlahloK 111#- In# bIm
It is uot advisable for any of us to
■ Tertis a onr «n .gis# cnpo.-al or mental, bit .ct
the eager pureo.t of w j* - tb or fame or kr.oivl dps,
hi-w many tiao* r tbi* -a!n ary j 1-. It mast
b*a ma ter of i .lporta’jce to all who dj eo
to know ho* tbij < an re^ln tbe igoj to reck*
expended. Tbe renrdy i« nei ter coaly
or dificali toobti.n. Lo* euer** atomic)* Lit-
t-r* ti prorurab’e in ev r/ e : ty, fwn and settle
ment It AL.cr.ci, tzii\ c mp c#Vet for acriic
of bodily ar mental eu&rgy more eCactcal y than
any lnvtgjran.. ever; proven ted cr tdveni-ad.
Laboring m*a oib « —, stodani*. Jcurcol-ats,
iaaycre. o'er, jman, pnyatctoc*, a ; bear
ay of it* wo d.rooa rccoraMng pov e -§ It in
a*aa.a n; ;T.pa-,illt er fir andargorng fatigue
and counteracts tb* li ja ioa* cfiect* u;on ita
■yttem of exposure, eedettory ba ita. unhealthy
cr weiring av cations or an Lua!a->ri^u- clim
ate. ard is a p;im» a.tcraure. diuretic and *»l0w-d
depnrem.
3. j*c*l...d3t la a *bur eaibwlt !*’p
Tt;- 1 <
i Ikredxe Boat.
Gal.e ton JaLuary 19.—The reve
nue cutter Mzixsou has returned from
aseond ernise insrarcb of thr; drsd^e
boat McAllister, acd reports finding &
portion of the dredge, enaMishitg al-
» coves ef ia&vrenl pcjoyiaent, sod ®i*»t beyoad a doubt her kwe.
On the morning of the 7 h of Novem
her it was apparent that Hayes and
Wheeler were elected by one m, j >ritv,
if S mth Carolina, Florida, and Louisi
ana had grven them their votes. Bu.
immediu t!v theTilden forces—hungry
northern aud desperate sou hern demo
crats, uetermiueil to prevent the count
ing of the votes of these states for the
republican candidates; and threat", at
tempts to bribe, and all manner of foul
influences were arrayed to sedwe or
intimidate the local republican olHuah
who were to declare the result.
To counteract these machinations,
Gov. Hayes sent a large array of dis
tinguished persons to the contested
states, from O .io notably the follow
ing:
Messrs. John Sherman, afterward
made secretary of the treasury ; Stan
ley Matthews, private counsel for Gov
lltyes, afterward made United Suite-
senator by his influence; Edward F.
N.»yes, afterward made minister to
France; John Little, Gov. Hayes’s at
toruey general; .Samuel hheliab.irger,
Gov. Haves's private c »ut:sel; .Loner.
A. Garfie d, member of the electoral
commission, and administration candi
date for speaker; and niauy oihers
went there from other sections.
In South Carolina and Florida, owing
to the manifest facts and to the noble,
fearlessness of Gov. Daniel H. Cham
her tain and Gov. Ma: cell us L. Stearns
in protecting the can vats ng boards, the
correct result of the election—the
choice of H*yes electors- was declared
without extraordinary asMirauces from
the northern visitors.
In L tiisiaiia, however, there had
been thrown into the ballot b xesover
7,000 more votes f >r the Tdden than
for the lfayes electors, and to make
Hayes president it became necessary
for the returning board, acting under
peculiar local laws, to throw out. more
than 7,000 Tilden votes on accouutol
alleged murder, riot and intimidation,
preventing a fair and free criterion iu
certain parishes. To perform this ex
traordinary, ev n if j iitifi irilti work, in
the face cf an arm d and infuriated
democracy, r* q'tired men of uudaunted
courage; and such c <urage the re urn
ing board possessed. I - require d. alsoj
that the board shonid have assurances
that the national exigency demanded
its performance; that the moral senti
ment of the north would approve it,
and that they themselv**#* should be
protected from evil cousecpieuces to b
apprehended from the violence of
mjb government, which it was know
would he cst iblishetl by one Nicholls,
a pretend r to tbe office of governor
?giinst S ephen B Packard, who was
sure to be found elect**) giver or it the
Hayes e'ec:ors should b^ found to have
been chosen.
All these assurances were freely a id
forcibly given by Senator Sherman and
his ass iciUeo. Mr S an ley Matthews
ceciared to Mr. J. E Leouard, and on
m >re than one occasion, that Hayes
and Packard should stand or la 1 to
gether.
A reported interview rf Governor
Hayes, December 3, wirii Mr. \V R.
Kiberts, of the New Orleans Times,
having occieioned alarm aa to t6e
future course of the pr spect : ve presi
dent toward southern republicans and
the Louisiana and South Carolina gov
ernments, Governor Hayes,through his
private secretary. Captain A. E L*»e,
since made consul-general to Frankfort,
and General James M. Cimlv, of the
Ohio htate J >urnal, sirce made minis
ter to the .Sindwich Islands, denied
the reported interview an I all svm
pathy with the aentimen s therein ex
pressed.
Encouraged aud forced forward bv
these as uranees, tbe returning board
boldly performed ita duty, gave voice
to the mure.ered republicans of the
build' zed parishes cf Louisiana, and
made Hayes president and Packard
governor of Louis’a-ia, by titles indis
solubly connected in law, in mora's, and
by every rule of honor that prevai-i
among civilized men.
The game tender regard for the Lou
isiana republicans, arid for the result
which they Lad achieved, continued
during the ensuing s'ru*gie in c mgreso.
ine returnii g boatd were arrested and
confined at Washington by the confed
erate house of representatives. Sick,
and in prison, they were visited by
Senator Sherman and his as-ociates,
and urged to stand firm until reiiet
should ciice frem the advent lo power
o* the piesident whom they bad made.
Before :he electoral cjmm s-.ion, to
maintain and vindicate their work,
Gov liay-s perscnaliy continued the
emplovuient oi Messrs. Matthew* and
Sheila* arger, white Senator Sherman, _ _ _
from hie price in theecna»e,on Drv*-m- elitg, Leonard and John D. King-
condemnation and disgrace upon him
self, tbe men of the party who had been
prominent in his l*ehalf, and upon the
party itself.
To make concession to the defeated
democracy, and to abamlon the princl
pies of hisowu party, would not only
proclaim his doubts as to the rightful-
ness of hie own election, but would
also be au admission that sue 1
tion, even if right and honest, was an*
desirab e for the country.
If the men and principles of the
democratic party were to control the
country, why should they not have
done so through Samuel J Tilden,their
appropriate representative? Why the
protracted labor, the high excitement,
the dangerous struggle, the death or
ruin of sou hern republicans if the
principles of the republican party were
to be abandoned and the administra
tion to be made democratic in all re
spects except in name ?
Wisdom and honor, therefore,
seems to me, certainly required that
President Hayes should maintain his
own rightfulnesB of title, and stand by
the men and principles of his party.
Had be done so, in my belief, the dem<
ocratic cry of Iraud would have been
the me: est folly; the republican party
would have remained dominant in
every northern state and iu several
southern states, and would have swept
the country in the recent fall elec ions.
Instead of all this, what do we see ?
IV.
Almost the first act of the new ad
ministration was to lulfilla bargain that
had been made during the presidential
count, by which, if Hayes should tx*
president, the lawful governments
Louisiana and South Carolina were ..
be abandoned and the mob govern
ments in those states were to be recog
nized aud established.
Certain democrats in the bouse
representatives, seeing that, by recur
ring decisions of the electoral commis
uion, and the regular procee li ga of the
two houses under the electoral bill,
which they had warmlv supported.
Hayes would surely be p; evident, had
conceived the plan of saving someth ing
from the wreck. They had therefore
threatened, by dilatory motions aud
riotous proceedings, to break up the
count, aiul then open negotiations with
such timid ortoo eag< rly-expedant re
publicans as they could find ready
They had succeeded beyond their
sanguine exp .dations. {Senator .Sher
tnan had vtni:ed Ohio, and consulted
Gov. Hayes. Mr. Henry Watterson
democratic member, and a nephew*
Mr. {Stanley Mathews, had acted as go
between, and on the one side Messra.
Mathews, Charles Foster, J din Sher
man, James A. Garfield, and on the
other L Q C. Lamar, John B. Gordon,
E. J. E lis. Randall Gibson, E. A. Burke
and John Young Brown had agreed :
1. That the count shonid not l
broken up in the house, but that Hay...
should be tleciared and inaugurated
president; and
2. That upon Hayes’s accession the
troops should lie withdrawn from pro
tecting Governors Chamberlain and
Packard, aud that the new administra
tion should recognize the governments
of Wade Hampton in S mth Carolina,
and F. 11. Nicholls iu Louisiana.
By certain general and indefinite let
ters s nee given to the public, by a
secret writinc now in the hands of E.
A Burke, aud in other ways, the agree
ment wmb authenticated; and President
Grant was immediately requested by
Governor Hayes’s counsel ou no ac
count to re icgniza Packard or Cham
berlain, but, to Lave the ultimate de
cision as to their fate to the incoming
president.
After the inauguration the bargain
was speedily fu.ti icd. As soon as the
electoral vote of their states waa safe
Governors P. ckard and Chamberlain
had heea notified by Messrs Matthews
a mi E varta to get out Governor Cham
berlain was now* summoned to Wash
ington, and informed th;:t he must sur
render. He pro ested against his tak
ing «-ff. Tne present hesitated, but
Wad« Himpton demanded the per-
fonna’.ce of tbe bargain. Mr. Matth
ews was sent for, came from Ohio, at.d
within twenty-four hours the United
States 11 g whs ordered down in Charles
ton, end Governor Chamberlain stamp
ed out.
As to L ouisiana, the fulfilment pro
ceed# d more slowly^ but none the less
surely. Packard had made (March 21)
a constitutional call lor federal aid,
which it was difficult to withhold from
one as surely governor as Hayes was
president. And yet there was the bar
gain.
As a subterfuge, an unconstitutional
commission, consisting of Messrs. John
M. Harlan, Joseph R Hawley, C. B
Lawrence, Wayne MacVezgh, and John
C. Brown, was sent to Jsew OLeans,
instructed to gradually destroy the
Packard legislature by seducing or
forcing its members into the Nicholls
legislature. But they, proving too
stubbornly republican, the commission
telegraphed the president that nothing
would des’roy Packard but the actual
order withdrawing the troops. At the
word the president give the order,
Packaid was crushed, and the commis
sion returned triumphant to Woshu g-
ton, to “be recognized”—one of them,
Gen. Harlan, by an appointment as su
preme court judze; another, Mr. Law
rence, by tbe idea ; e of JakelRehm, the
great whisky conspirator acd d.frauder
of tiie revenue at Chicago; Gen. Haw
ley waa offered the appointment as
chitf commissioner to the Paris exhibi
tion, but decline#! bt cause the salary
waa to be only $5000; aud three offices
were lend* red to Mr. MacVeagb, hut
declined on the ground that his signal
services demanded more ample recog
nition. The E glish mission was next
aes gned him, hut circumstances have
maoe its delivery inixpedient or im
post-rib-e.
Ooe other hope remained to Gover
nor Packard He had a lawful court
of justic-, and might appeal to that
But there were two vacancies, and it
quired all three of the ju *tre*— Lud
made with sout hern democrats,
new administrate u has adopted a so*
called southern policy.
1 Eutirely contrary to the express
ed principles of the republican party.
2. Which Inis been carried out bv
the abandonment of all federal inten
tion and eff \rt to protect life, property,
or suffrage at the south, or to enforce
the constitutional am end mo u is; ami
3 Has resulted in the enf *rced di —
solution cf the republican party at tne
south, and its demoralization, and de
feats at the north.
vfuator Dawes, at Faneuil hall, N >v.
in defending what he admits to be
change—a new departure—bases it
npon tbe proposition that,
When the rebels laid down their arm-, the
ale* and the people led Lack al once iuto iheir
old position, every one of them with #* much
p*wer a» before the war The rebel wen I mm
tee battle field to the ballot box.and stood there
equal w.th biseouqueror.
Messrs. Charles Foster and S.anley
Matthews, in tbe ; r written guarantee of
February 28, 1877, to John B. Gordon
and John Young Brown, define the new
policy to be given to the southern states
“the right to control their own affairs
in their own way;” and John Young
Brown so describes it in his account of
the bargain.
By the New York Tribune of Scptem-
?r 26, it appear that
‘ Governor Wade H-mptou is wtill with the
party, and is introduced by the president to
every audience r* au honest iuid po ri.»tic man."
i at Atlanta Hampton «aid ol tbe pn»i-
_ - . ’W’hen 1 ww him carryinc out the poll
cy fer twelve year- advocated by the democratic
party, 1 Mid 1 would sunt .in him in that policy
ioL-gahhccontiuued in that path.”
President Hayes himself al j o calls
anew policy only tbe app'icalion of
the principle of “local t-elf govern
ment,’’and thus eulogizes the Georgians
who are to be intrusted witli it
in behalf of your renvictiou*. Auc
m«m. *uy where, fad to respect the mtui who
risks his life for Uie c evictions?
At Chattanooga, September 20, he
said:
Aa I dem an
fKh’it'K "Ra1u-
ihe w*me measun* of rwp
lor his con vic.ious.
At Gallatin, Tennessee, he s
We have diflore t in the past, but
I respect from the m«
) him v
fought out t
t differ
id:
omr y
bo fouvh t and i
onr pt ind pie*. We foueht
vea on the opposite side lor
nd men mho »»n do that can meet and look
each other iu the face with rasped always
At Atlanta, September 23. he said :
So, with nodi‘CJVtit to you, and no special
credit to us. the war ta.-uea out us it did.
Having thus blotted out all distinc
tions between loyalty and treason, be
tween union and rebel soldiers, between
the torturers of Andereonville and the
veterans of the north, he is < quilly ex
pl cit as to what he means to d t for the
poor colored men whom he pitied so
much November 8:
aud inter# sta would be (infer if tticRreat
of lntelli«..til white men were let a.one by
the general government.
His confidence in his new friends is
complete. At Ch&ttanocga he a!s j tells
the colored people:
Onr confidence is* perfect, that with the l»ty-
etc removed from the ►outh, tbe people <>f the
•ii li would be oarer iu every right, iu every
ji.-n-t than they ever we.e whenproUcasa
merely by ihe bayonet
As the policy of the democratic party
was to be carried out at the suu 1 h, n
Southern Confederate general, Mr. D
:VL. Key, a democrat w ho had opposed
Hayes’s election, and, iu the senate
denounced his title as fraudulent, was
appointed postmaster general, ami
commenced the distribution of ths
southern postoffices to rebel democrats.
The negro murderers of Hamburg
aud E-lenton had baea indicted iu the
federal courts of South Carolina. The
great and g *od Hamilton appealed for
their release, and it was accorded by
the president in a letter of May 12 gran
ing gen ral amnesty to negro murder
ers as “political offenders.” To make
immunity more certain, the {toiicy of
appointing as district attorneys ami
marshals men agreeable to the white
people of the south—that is, detnoent
—was dele.mined upon.
At the dictation of the most trusted
end potent advherof the adminis ra
tion, Gen. Gordon—rapt ured by Giant
in 1865, put in federal c- rntu&nd by
Hayes iu 1877 -oueO I*. Fi’/.rimons, a
rebel dtmocrat and a cousin of Wade
Hampton, was appointed marshal o
Georgia, in place of one Smyth, a com
petent and honest republican, and wai
confirmed by the democratic senators
votes and that of Stanley Mat;hews
alnoe.
Prior to the selection •A Fi’/.-imons
the president had determi :e#l to«:hai ge
Smyth and appoint Mr. W. A. Hull, of
Irtcon, a democrat whom Gordon had
tsheted. Some repub leans of Georgia
j fined in recommending Huff, upon
discovering wh c i damning ’act Vioidon
retrac ed his selection of Huff aud pro
cured the piesident to nominate Fttz
si mo us.
Gordon thus states his reasons in
letter *o Hufl:
ret tor the first time that you were being
torappnii
bail i up t'
ljd be heard
McBurreey
-ubhean party in Georgia.
... the p reei ,j,
and until
i. The pr* sidcnl
ii Dibble, republican*-
- aay iu their letter to tl
appointment wou'd mat.
°rgid.
h*r H, ihreat«?MMl negip iatomtlbai
oi flieung party
MR li fro in man
vc opposition
k d ihepn-fit *
utl urged f*
iiti very lit* ral
pr* aide >t the aired «ju«
The iuf#*i
hltnaelf Mipp.cateuti d bv the In
»S;
puhlieujuitn lu t n
reasonf, the only reamn*. aud 11
n-BMouh. lor my op portion to you
They ielt me no alteruativc hi
Ui.l h-
poliiico) Rtatus, me
which a* iiH-.-of dn
to perform, and y* nr^e’f. p*«Mb y,
mortification ‘-x^ciictxsod a*
you desire to 11,1.
Gen. Gordon pr- cures Samuel
disaj provnl
‘«v*a i
a to your
•Hbl** Uni
pel led me
from the
«f the« ffloe
.. . . and Penusy.Vania.
Ltok, however, at ti e result where
the new* policy was repudiated.
I*t 1 .wra, llayen hid 59 223 plurality,
a n#t in 1877 the republicans had 51,823
plurality.
iu New* York, Til«1en had 32 732 ma
jority, nnd ia 1S77 the democrats had
only’ll 264 majority, although the ntw
pi liey men promoted the de mocratic
tide by iudiffereuc ’, and by procuring
the new administration to make or an
nounce many injudicious removals of
federal officers for the sole purpose of
irritating au#l humiliaiibg Sairalcr C in
kling aud hia friends.
VI.
These, then, arp the facts before us:
Iv.uherford B Haves waa elected
president by tiie republican party on
the platform of opposition to rebel rule
and a solid south ; and with pledges to
rotect, to the extent of fe#leral power,
f.*, suffrage, and the free exercise of
all political rights at the e< uth; waa
uuted in as ^resident only by reason
epecial pledges to the same eff#ct
veil by his representatives and agents,
Senator Sherman and other Ohio emis
saries, who particular ami emphatically
promised that he would recognize and
maintain the lawful slate governments
of South Carolina and Lc-uriiana. and
stand by Govs. Chamberlain aud Pack-
arti.
Before the actual declaration of his
election, ami to secure tiie same, a de
liberate written batgain waa made in
his behalf by the same Squalor Sher-
mun ami his associates. l>y which it
agreed with JSenat#»r Gordon aud
other southern rebel democrats, that
when he should be made to enf >re# the
ubne principles of hi* party, but that
he south should be allowed to in nage
n affairs iu i‘s own wray, and that
in particular he would abandon the
lawful tit tie governments of I/niisiana
and South Carolina, aiul recognize in
their stead the mob governments of
Wr.de Hampton aud F. li Nicholls.
3 After his inauguration the bargain
was literally fulfilled; t!:o United S ates
ff #g disgracefully hauled down iu C#i-
lutnbia and New O;leans; the lawtul
governments notified to surrender to
rebel mobs, and upon their hesitation,
deliberately and actively torn down by
his administration by unconstitutional
processes, ami the use ct federal pat
ronage, vigorously wielded by ibesnme
Secretary Snerman and his associates ;
the mob governments of Hampton and
Nichols recognized ; and a s -lul south
aud rebel rule established by the swift
and eager action of his administration.
4 All attempts to adm ; uister the
government upon the principles by
proclaiming which he ha been elected
and counted in, were deliberately
ubandoiied; the south notified that it
should uot be interfered with by his
alministration ; southern ka-klux aiul
negro mmdereis re less#*! and atones*
tied by presidential order; the enforce
ment of federal lawsat the south given
up, or entrusted to reliel democratic
hands; Senator Gordon aud his fellow-
bargaitiers accepted as the intimate
ami acknowledged advisers- f the pres
ident and the disposers ot f d ral pat
ronage, aud the black ami white re
publicans of the south mercile#siy sur
rendered to the iuaults, peistcutious
and atrocities of their democratic ene
mies.
5 A-i a necessary result of all this, the
republican party at the t-outu wns dis
banded, and no republican votes were
cist in states w here a free ballot would
show large republican mnjirities; the
republican party at the north was par
alyzed wherever the t.dvice of support
ers or apologists for the new policy was
heeded, republican def.*a\a ensued
wherever it was end >rs d, rej ubiican
victories only where it w th re; inflated ;
and, with a so id s nth and a divide#!
north, the cm.!## iorate deun-crats ate
mnrehing toward a patio-ml victory in
1880, while President liayes ami Secre
tary Sherman look on with as much
indithirence as it they were in name, as
they are in fact, allies of the demo
cratic party.
\TI.
In view of these lamentable fr.c’8,
it is the duty #.f true republicans to
take prompt aud couiageoiis action.
Silence is a cr in -; acquiescence aud
inaction are political death. Can the
republican party, of heroic achieve
ments, be bound to an admii.Hiration
which is uot a free agent, hut U hound
by a bargain to Generals Gordon, Li
ma r, Wade Hampton, aud other hou It
em democrats now in high office only
through the bloolof murder#<1 repub
licans? Docs not. every vater in the
Und know that Hales and Packard
were elected simuitai t* tuslv, ami held
by the at-me title,at!d th.it when ll #yes
. handonetl and trampled «lown Pack**
ar«l he put^ au iireui# v.ihle stain u|ion
Iris own title? The republican party
has lived long, ami surv v.d many as
saults aud many treasons, only because
it has been a puty founded ti|K»n hi^h
principles, animated by lofiy s* ntirm-n*,
c nirageciisly acting tip to* noble c *u-
tions. Il it now disgraces its record,
amlend rses or fails «» repudiate the
Hayes surrender, i’s voters wi l leave
it by thousands; its days are num
bered; it will die a deserved und <l:s-
honored death.
B-.it such i not to be its fate -at least
not with he republicans of New Hamp
shire. In twenty-seven eUvriors since
1855, they have success, ally bait ted fur
rathcal republican price:pus. They
rent out the soldiers of the stale to
light Gens. Gordon and Lamar on the
battle field. Wheu, three years ago,
these st#me confederate general*# came
to teach the meu **f tue granite state
then political duties, they were fol
lowed hack lo Washington by mws of
ji re publican majority rgely increase#!
by their harangues. Tl-v wid re*ceivea
similar greetirg in Maich, 1878, but it
will not result from eLdorsirg a presi
dential policy wh ch has surrendered to
them th * federal patronage of Gsorgbi
And _
J. 'iiUlen—no, Uuthe.iford B dtyei,! -
to turn out 8myib, a republican,
change from Huff, a liberal demccrat,
to Fi zumons, a rebel democrat, and
make the latter marehal to prelect the
poor colored people ot Georgia !
Of a like character, probably by like
influences, are the appointments of
Waldron as marshal of Teune*s*te and
Northrop and his a siatant as district
attorneys in South Carolina.
These significant instances of a sur
render of the power oi the federal
courts to rebel democrats, the prom pi
and complete amnesty to all negro
murderers and ku k ux, and the ea.er
tramping out of the ouiy remaining re
publican 8*ate governments at the
Bouth, entirely crubhed all republican
courage, and left republicir.s at the
meicy of their enraged enemies, w ho
turned upon them with fierce hair- d.
Persecutions and prosecutions in the
state courts have been freely resorted
to. and obnoxious republicans driven
away or unjustly convicted. The
republican party has been compellt*!
to disband, and the dangers of a solid
south and rebel rule, which President
Hayes wanted the people of Ohio made
to believe would be averted if lie were
elected, have become terrible realities.
In Mississippi, Gov. £tone, infamous
for his failure to prosecute effectually
tbe Chisholm murderers, was re-elec
ted by 96,382 votes, only 1,108 republi
cans daring to go to th»- p*l Is, where,
in 1872, Grant had 82,175 votes and
Greeley only 47,288, an«l in 18# o Ha. tB
had 52,605 votes to 112 173 for Tilden.
Iu Virginia, 101 940 democratic votes
wereca-t and 4,387 republican.
In Georgia, the republican parly,
seeing Senators Gordon and Hill th*
intimate friends and trusted adviser?
of Presi lent Hayes, dictating the ap
poiatments and controlling the fedora,
patronage, miss’ of necefeiity diesoive,
and yet, in 1672, Grant had 62 50.J
voles and Greeley 76 3- r .6 end even
Haves had 50.446 to 130,068 for Tild-n.
In Pennsylvania, wnere Hav# a Lad
584,122 vo'trt* to 666 1?8 for Tilden, t!:e
repub ican partv, in 18/7, weighted bv
the Hayes poUcv, ca*>t hut 244,480
votes, a falling * ff < f 140,009, an#! the
dem- crats carried the stare by 7,000
m«rj >rity.
l-i Ohio, where Hayes heal 330 698 to
323,182 for Tilden, the republican p*r-
«y, iu 1877, cure: only 241437 votes, a
Iom of 89.261, aud lost the tnaie by ! “
% qooTun. Jaffa* K*u9. wite W ma>artty, a?vV trio leipstaivre oy
and Mits ssippi, and have forgiven tt»e
murders of hundreds of their fellow citi
zens, committed that they might rise
to political power, bargain with the
agents oi a republican president, and
dominate in the White House; and
when that policy has been repudiated
by the republican p,r»y of the nation,
w*hen the north has been {gain aroused
to the dangers of a sffid muth aud
rebel rule which it vainly attempted to
avert by the election of Rutherford B.
Hayes, when it sha‘1 have again reeuru-
e#l the wor k planned but not accom-
phshed by the Cincinnati conven
tion of 1876, of “ securing to
every American citizen complete
liberty and exact equality
in the exercise 0 f ail ci' il, political an#l
public rights” by tne vi;s of a “chief ex
ecutive wh#*e courage ar.tl fidelity shall
u«it falter till these results are placed
beyond dispute or recall” (so that Wil
liam Loyd Garrison an#l Wendell Phil
lips can canvass Georgia and Mississip
pi, ami colored citizens vote the e, aa
freely as Goreiou and Lmnr can can
vaes New Hampshire and democrats
vote there)— then, ar.d then onlv, will
there be “nation #1 purification” aud
“enduring peace,” and the mission of
the repubican party will be completed.
W. E. Chandler.
SOLID omo
A 1 rotnt AgaliiHi Ihe Wr eke*»
Cc m’miics, January 19.—This after
noon the senate passed ihe jtiut res'*-
luliou favoring the rein- net./. • tion of
the silver dollar; favorir g the pas*age
of Band’s silver bill without amend
ment.; restricting free coinage, and
censuring President Hayes and Secre
tary Sherman for their position on tbe
Bilver question. The rt solution was
*d ipted by a party vote; the demo-
< ra s voting in the sffirma'.ive, the re-
publicans io the negative.
Trjlug in Nave Ihe > It era
New Yoi k, Jen. 19. A Hartford,
C nn., s,»cc a! says a u« w t tftirt is mak-
ir y to save he rcruaming assets of the
Cl a ter Otk Iff— imur • <e company,
by keeping it #.u of u#- h-.u <ls of a re
ceiver ami noig -.itiz w >* a« a purely
mutual eo-. p in; ,ti.e-t ck #» be merged
and w ; p -d t ut, tn#l tl.#? j».. ctes sea'ed.
Legislative nterventi*" is t ccersary in
order toefifacc thi-,at.d !.- r #fore a new
charter ih a*k. 6. for. i* is thought
most of the policy -hold.-re w ith co
operate wi.h Ora fewnefftrs im thaV