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Volume 5. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1876.
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fhe Weekly Democrat.
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AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS
T ic Thomasvilie Time* says .Ben Hill
made “his maiden speech in Congress ”
\St don’t think there was anything ‘ ‘maid-
f -" about it. It was a regular old stag,
md bJib’d the bottom out of Blaine.
7he editor of the Brooks County Gem
reds U! a postal card, in which he says:
Will you send the Democrat and ex
change? I have very little to offer, but it
•malls loud.” Certainly we will exchange.
Wo are glad to get the Gem; it is a spicy
little shoot, and, if the truth must be told,
j. mperior to some of the bigoted country
papers which make it a point to speak of
il in derision. Success to you, Kayton.
A Georgia paper, in writing about Leap
Tear, speaks of the fact that for the other
three years of the quadrennial the females
in. in subjection, but,it adds, “now that
they have achauoe, the women nave strip
ed for the fight.” We don’t believe it.
Our friend Weston, of the Dawson Jour-
mi, has been elected President of the
Terrell County Industrial Association.
Hnrrah for the editors, and one thing and
another!
The Quitman Reporter estimates the
police force in that city at one hundred,
oa circus day. We don’t see anything
wrong about that, though doubtless the
iliovv manager thought it very hard if it
was fair.
The Nashville Journal has been remov
al to Alapalm, Berrien County. Would
it not he economy to give the editor the
lunctit of lion W. E. Smith’s proposition
to (situ ate a person from that county?
Hob Harris, of the Thomasville Time*,
remarks that “the porkless editor vras not
forgotten.” The folks over this way nev^
i r forget an editor; but, hang it, remem-
hi ring him is all they do.
Triplett remarks, with a slight glow of
exultation, a new feature in tho Times—a
xxcekty lettor from Philadelphia. Wo
litre no idea there will ho over forty pa-
p-rs which publish tho same lettor the
fame week.
K. T. McLean, Esq., has been elected
Mayor of Thomasvilie. An excellent se
lection.
Dougherty County is going to cut down
tin; salary of her County Judge to $600
per an u utn.
At Georgetown, Ga., Sunday, January
18th, 1S70, at 8 a. m., by Rev. W. P. Jor
dan, Mr. J, J. Bush, of Albany, Ga., to
Miss Hattie Foster, of Georgetown.
Representative Alderman, of Thomas,
lias introduced a bill in the House to
change the lines between the counties of
Decatur and Thomas.
To Harris: How many “best weeklies”
arc there in Georgia?
Henry McIntosh is going to start a new
paper at Blackshear, which again leads us
to remark: Hurrah for the editors!
The Quitman Reporter says tho farmers
of Brooks are in a better condition than
I* 1 ? before, and remarks: “A merchant
. J us that ho had seen over a
dozen farmers selling -o^ n ^ weok >.
Joab Gillion, an old citizen oi A.xw« ny
tried for his life last week, charged
*ith killing a negro on his place in 1874
He was aquitted.
Cairo has a paper. Well—we don’t care
*° go into particulars. It says none of the
t'airo merchants have failed or will fail
ftis season.
Mr. Jesse D. Weston has become asso-
oiate editor of the Dawson Journal.
-In exchange remarks: “Once in a xvliile
* e ^ n, l °no who prefers a city weekly to
1 k° n >e paper because “it’s got more read-
- 111 it " He is the same chap who al-
*Y» buys the largest pair of boots in the
^ because they cost no more than a
Waller pair which fits him best.”
Hannah News -. We are giatified in
connection, considering the occasion
“' ><“ celebration and the fact that this is
** centennial year, a period during which
” i kindliest feelings should find place in
, tr . v -American bosom, to mention an in-
'f ent Dial occurred as the regiment pass-
'He Drayton street entrance to Ogle-
“ or l' Barracks, garrisoned by Federal
^P'. Tl;e United States soldiers on
! . v there come to “present arms,” salut-
the command. The salute was
: onijuiv- rC ( Urne( j > an) j t) le regiment
• '' J on. It was a trivial thing, but
- indicative of a kindly feeling
.,'*een 'he Blue and the Grey, we are
* ^ t0 put it on record in this, the
*.fiiug month of our centennial year.
•" aunah News: “A Henry county mule
^ ha> fatally stabbed forty-four negroes
r Her hind feet during the past season,
'“in in Macon the other day for the
oniions sum 0 f seV en hundred dollars,
cv.ding to this valuation, Tump Pon
r °' in > mule, in Monroe county, is a
ftis
' Ruld mine. She has killed four
i M j*”^ eighteen
colored people
father, on Thursday morning, the 6th
inst., by the Rev. E. B. Carroll, Mr. Geo.
McMullen to Miss Juliet Jessup—all of-
Brooks county.
The gin-house of Mr. J. W. Thayer, in 1
Baker county, was destroyed by an incen
diary oa the night of the 11th inst Tfiis
is the fortieth gin-house burned in Geor
gia since the 1st of September.
Cuthbert Messenger-. “One of our sub
scribers wanted to know bow we found
out so much local news, when the devil
promptly informed him that we always
sent a reporter to the old maid’s sewing
circles.”
Thomasvilie celebrated Gen. Lee’s birth
day. The Guards had a considerable time.
During the year 1875, there were 156
failures iu Georgia with liabilities amount
ing to $6,138,464 In 1874, the failures in
Georgia were 118, liabilities $1,845,000.
The annual bill to tax bachelors lias
been introduced in the Georgia Legisla
ture.
A young man in Cuthbert states as an
inducement for leap year proposals, that
lie is the possessor of a cow and calf.
The Statistical bureau of Agriculture,
places last years cotton crop at not less
than four million fifty thousand bales,
nor more than four million one hundred
and fifty thousand bales.
Hon. A T. McIntyre has been elected
President of the South Georgia A. M.
Association.
The News says Albany is the highest
provision market in the State.
Also, that a case was called on Monday
last, by Judge Wright, which was dock
eted in 1853.
Cuthbert is angry because she could not
see a circus. The Central Railroad laid
an embargo on such entertainments, by
taxing them $1,000 per day for transpor
tation.
The Blakely News rises up in meeting
and says: “Some of the lazy, hungry
scoundrels around here are killing cattle
in the woods.”
Thomasvilie and Boston engaged in a
shooting match, three sliootists from each
place. Result—Boston wins by fifteen
birds.
The Thomasvilie Enterprise does not
want ^.Convention.
Cairo Times -. “Beef sells here at 4 & 5,
pork at 7 and 8 cents per lb. and choice
sweet potatoes at 40c per bushel. How is
that for “sop an’ tater?”
Cuthbert Appeal-. “T. A. Wall, lixzes
out in the 10th District, killed on Tuesday
last seven hogs 19 months old, of his own
raising which weighed in the aggregate
nineteen hundred and twelve pounds. He
always wears a cheerful face—as all men
do who raise their own meat—and has no
idea of going West or anywhere else to
find a better country than this.
gome bad fellow has been “shoving |the
queer” in Camilla.
We believe every daily in the State,
with perhaps one' exception, published
Ben Hill’s speech.
Savannah News: “There are various re
ports out in regard to the small-pox in
Savannah, which we undertake to say are
altogether exaggerated. The foregoing is
written by a person who has never been
vacinated.”
A little child of Mr. Green Jackson, in
Mitchell county, was burned to death the
other day.
CURREN* EVENTS-
Babcock’s crooked case is set for Janua
ry 31.
The great Centennial regatta wi.l take
place next summer on Saratoga lake.
Governor Tilden refuses to pardon
Stokes, the muderer of Fisk.
The Alabama Legislature is making
out a very bad case against Senator Spen
cer.
Sir Anthony Rothschild died in London
Tuesday, and the other members of that
wealthy clan will only be the richer.
Senator Morton will begin the oenlen-
nial year by endeavoring to stir up sec-
tioual strife. The Mississippi carpet-bag
gers have guaranteed him their vote at
the Republican Presidential Convention.
Among the resolutions introduced in
the lower House of the Ohio Legislature
on Friday was one to request President
Grant to dismiss his relatives from office
$nd appoint Union soldiers in their stead.
The Ohio Grand Lodge Committee
favors and recommends the recognition of
the colored lodges in that State. The
organs of the Masonic fraternity do not
seem to relish the idea, and oppose it.
“Reason and common sense,” says the
Trenton Republican, “toll us that Gen.
Grant does not desire a third term.” And
can you stand there like a fool and let
reason and common sense lie to you in
that way without resenting it ?
On the fourth Sunday in Janaary every
clergymay in Indiana is to preach a ser
mon on the “Religious Features of the
Centennial Exhibition,” embodying also a
sketch of their respective church organi
zations. The sermons are to lie bound in
several volumes and forwarded to Phila
delphia.
The Indianapolis Journal says “the in
dications are that 3Ir. Kerr will prove to
be what is called a scrub.” It is to be \
hoped not. It would be a pity to see the j
executive and both branches of the legis j
lative departments of the Government all )
headed by the same sort of stock.
A Boston paper declares that Senator
Morton has a good chance for the Presi
dency because his record is good. It is
,ratl^er absurd to characterize as good the
'‘record of a politician who has won his
chief, distinction.by waving a bloody shirt
r *4 Wearing a dirty one.
*It has transpired through- a leading
Democratic Senator that Mr. Ferry will
be retai ned in bis place, should the Re
publicans persist in their effort to make a
change. 31 r. Ferry will not go into the
caucus, and the Democrats will support
him as against any caucus nominee, which,
with several Republican votes which are
assured, will secure him the succession to
the Presidency.
The man who wonld not steal a pin,and
yet would walk off with a silk umbrella
belonging to another person, lacks consis
tency.—[N. Y. Mail.] Perhaps so, per*
haps not. He may be a lecturer on the im
portance of protecting the human frame
from the inclemency of an outrageous
climate’s caprices,and rather than stultify
himself, consistently seizes the first Um
brella within reach.
The Pittsburg Commercial is doing what
it can to preserve the friendly feeling just
springing up between the North and
South. In the telegraphic report of Hill’s
speech sent to the press last week, this
sentence occurs: “The South is here,
and she intends tp remain.” The Com
mercial printed it: ‘ ‘The South is here,
and she intends to reign.’’ And the able
journal sticks to it, and occasionally
preaches a sermon on it.
Crooked vinegar is the last development
in Chicago. The Tribune of that city
shows that several hundred thousand*
gallons of crooked spirits from the
crooked distilleries, were sold to the vine
gar manufacturers,who not being compelU
ed by any Government regulations to keep
books showing the quantity of whiskey
they use in the manufacture of their pro
duct, have been making a very handsome
profit by addition, division and silence
with the crooked distillers. The Govern
ment officials are giving the matter their
attention.
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.
In the Senate, a petition was presented
from the State Grange, asking that agri
cultural interests have the fostering care
of the State, and the continuance of the
Agricultural Bureau.
On a second reading : The bill authoriz
ing the employment of convicts on public
works of Harris and other counties, was
referred to the Judiciary Committee.
The bill authorizing the granting of one
new trial in all civil cases when there is
proper application. Same reference.
The bill making,,the Judges of County
Courts and Clerks of Superior Courts Or
dinaries in case the Ordinary is disquali
fied, had the same reference.
The bill making improper use of money
in the hands of judiciary officers a felony,
had the same reference.
The bill organizing a new judical cir
cuit, to be known as the Apalachee, had
the same reference.
The bill regulating legal advertising by
Ordinaries, Sheriffs and others, had the
same reference.
The bill prescribing the time for the
payment of costs in the Supreme Court,
and fixing salary for Deputy Clerk of said
Court, had the same reference.
The bill consolidating the offices of Col
lector and Receiver created considerable
discussion on the part of Senators Reese,
Winn and Cooper, and the bill was finally
referred to a special committee of five,
whom President Simmons designated to
be Senators Reese, Winn, McDaniels,
McAfee, of the 30th, and Deadwiler.
nr THE HOUSE.
On the call of the roll of counties, eigh.
ty new bills were introduced and read the
first time—fifty-nine local or private, and
twenty-one public bills.
Dr. Thomas introduced a bill to regu
late the sale of poisons in this State ; also
to punish foeticide and criminal abortion.
Mr. Warren—To make it criminal to
purchase goods at cash sale, and dispose
of them without paying for them.
Mr. Kilpatrick—To make the offense of
horse stealing a capital offense, unless the
jury recommend the culprit to the mercy
of the court.
Bacon, colored,’of Liberty—To make
it a misdemeanor to plant a cro{f without
erecting around it a lawful fence.
Mr. Duncan—A bill to provide a State
currency. This bill provides for the issu
ing of Treasury notes in an amount not to
exceed eight million dollars, receivable in
payment of all taxes, redeemable in six
percent, bonds, payable twenty years
from the issuing of the currency. The
bill further provides for the lending of
the notes on certain conditions.
Mr. Irwin—To amend section 4127 ef
the Code. It provides for the assessment
of jury fees as part of the cost.
Mr. McGill—To exempt from taxation
by county and municipal authorities of
practitioners of law, medicine or dentist
ry.
Mr. Miller, of Ware—To exempt from
taxation persons having lost an arm or
leg.
Mr. Hall—To make it a misdemeanor
to purchase farm products from laborers
who are indebted to their employers for
supplies without the consent of employer.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS
Washington, January 19.—The Secre
tary of War has returned. The Appro
priations Committee have agreed to reduce
the missions to France, England and
Russia from $17,006 to $14,000, and al!
$12,000 missions to $10,000. The mis
sion to Greece is abolished.
Morton read his Mississippi speech,
showing that he took unusual pains
with it. He usually speaks extempo
raneously.
In the Senate, Sherman presented a pe
tition of citizens of Ohio asking for the
construction of the Southern Pacific Rail
road. Wallace presented the petitions of
citizens of Pennsylvania for Congressional
aid in the construction of the Southern
Pacific Railroad.
The bill amending the charter of the
Freedman’s Bank passed.
Davis’ treasury investigation was dis
cussed, but laid aside for Morton, who
commenced his Mississippi investigation
resolution speech, and before the conclu
sion the Senate went into executive session
and adjourned.
Wasuigton, January 19.—The House
special committee on the Texas border
troubles, at their meeting to-day, decided
to call on the Secretary of War and ask
him if he could detail an adequate force
to protect the frontier. The committee
expressed the opinion that two regiments
of cavaliy are required for active opera-
rations at the more exposed points, and
also infantry to guard the posts, and the
committee will so inform the Secretary.
They also will ask for all reports in posses
sion of the department in relation to raids
from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
In the House, the Post Office Committee
reported unfavorably on the bill to reduce
first-class mail matter to one cent per half
ounce.
On the Centennial, Sterger, of Pennsyl
vania, and Felton, of Georgia, spoke
against the bill. No Southerners spoke
in its favor to-day.
Mr. Wood, of New York, has made a
good beginning in a business which ought
to have been long since ended. He offer
ed yesterday, and the House adopted a
resolution instructing the Military Com
mittee to inquire into the anomolous con
dition of those commissioned officers of
the army who, like Babcock, are civilians
in authority drawing pay for civil services,
while they- are liable, at a moment’s notice,
when anything unpleasant occurs, to turn
up in full uniform, clamoring for “Courts
of Inquiry.”
The Judiciary Committee of the House
agreed to report, and subsequently did
report to the House, a one-term Presiden
tial constitutional amendment. It prevents
any one “who has held” as well as those
“who may hold” said office from being
again eligible.
Washinton, January$4—It was stated
in the World a few days since that it had
been discovered that the Republicans had
so fixed the standing rules that it was
found impossible for a Democratic House
to secure an item of reform or retrench
ment on the bills which appropriated
nearly two hundred millions out of the
Public Treasury. According to the eter
nal fitness of things, the Republicans had
so arranged it that extravagance should
be in order—that is, an appropriation
called fpr existing law or a salary could
be raised, but could not be decreased.—
The Democrats determined to reverse this
proceeding, and it was ratified in the
House to-day. Mr. Cox offered an
amendment from the Committee on Rules
reversing this rationale, and though the
Republicans opposed it, it passed easily.
Washington, January 24—Secretary
Fish was to-day before the House Com
mittee on Foreigh Affairs by invitation,
and in general terms informed the com
mittee of the present condition of the
Cuban question. He did not specifically
state the terras of the circular recently
addressed to foreign nations on that
subject, but intimated it merely asked
their moral support in the event of medi
tation or intervention by the United
States. Alluding to the recent Madrid
telegraph despatches giving an outline of
Spain’s reply to the American circular,
he said he did not regard its tone as un
friendly. As to the negotiations now in
progress, they were conducted in a con
ciliatory manner on both sides and- cer
tainly threats on the part of the United
States, and he hoped that the negotiations
would terminate satisfactorily. He was
willing that the correspondence should
be laid before the House, and this would
be done should that body call for it.
Subsequently a resolution was passed
calling for the correspondence, which will
be communcated by the President to the
House.
The following is from the Fort
Smith, (Ark.) Independent, and it
shows an encouraging state of affairs in
the west.
The farmers are now in a better con
dition than they have been for ten years,
with plenty of everything to eat, an5 a
good crop of eotton. Indeed, they are
almost independent, and the whole coun
try feels their prosperity. One more
year of good crops will redeem the farm
ers and place Arkansas on the road
to prosperity. ^
WORK IN CONGRESS.
What The Democratic Majority
of the House has Accom
plished.
[Special Dispatch to the World.]
Washington, January 17.—It is
hardly a week since the House of Rep
resentatives got fairly at Work after the
holiday intermission, yet the Democratic
majority is criticised for not having al
ready effected important legislation, and
for conceding to the Republican minor
ity certain righto. This is a very blear-
eyed premature criticism indeed.
In point of fact the record of the
Democrats, who numerically control
the House, has been exceptionally good,
and is free from the tyranny and insos
lence which for half a score of prece
ding years marked the conduct of the
Republican majority there. First, the
Democrats elected their very best man
for Speaker. Second, the Speaker des
ignated a list of excellent committees,
in which precedence was given to the
ablest and most honorable members on
both sides of the Chamber. Third, by
modest demeanor and perfect good hu
mor towards their foes, the Democrats
encouraged Republicans to show their
hands at the outset of the session.
Fourth’, every Republican palm held up
was Boiled; notably Blaine’s. This
cunning trickster played a desperate
card for popularity and lost. His error
at the latest moment was in affixing to
the Republican party of th s House the
odium of refusing amnesty to every re
pentant rebel. Fifth, the Democrats,
during these preliminary days, have
been singularly easy among themselves.
No uiau has been elected as a floor bul
ly, and no one has nominated and sus
tained himself in that capacity with
anything like the parliamentary success
of ex-Speaker Blaine. Sixth, several
legislative measures of great importanoe
have been introduced in the House by
Demporats, and several more are pre
paring in committee rooms. The prin
cipal bill of national concern which has
been brought to the attention of the
House is the one fathered by Mr. Payne,
of Ohio, which steps directly onward to
wards Specie Payments by securing an
accumulation of gold at the yearly rate
of 5 per cent, by the Government on
the amount of legal tenders, and by the
banks on the amount of national bank
ourrenoy, and which also repeals Sher
man’s sham resumption act By these
simple processes this bill proposes to ac
cumulate gold iu the Treasury at the
rate of about $35,000,000 a year. Sev
enth, preliminary moves foi the re
trenchment of national expenditures
have been made by Democrats, and
sanctioned by the’ House,. Every stand
ing committee has been instructed by
the House to inquire into and report
upon the expenses and expenditures of
every department of the Government.
The War Department, the Navy De
partment, the Department of the In
terior and its adjuncts, the Post-Office
Department, the Printing Bureau—
these and all the rest are to render their
accounts for the first time in years to.
the people’s representatives, and that
through the regular committees of the
House, without the expense of special
committees. To Mr. Kerr is due the
credit of thus spurring the regular com
mittees to their work, and rendering
the appointment of special investigating
committees needless.
Such is the record which the Demo
cratic majority in the House of Repre
sentatives has made in the present
opening stage of thesession. Its errors
have been on the side of charity
towards the minority; yet it showed
to-day how easily at need it coaid crash
that minority’s impertinence, by voting
out of sight the proposition of Mr,
White, of Kentucky, to suspend the
rules for the purpose of giving the Re
publicans another chance to extend am
nesty to everybody in the South except
Jeff. Davis.
In a Bad Fix.—It is said that the
grangers of Kentocky have been so ex
clusive in electing farmers to the Legis
lature that the Speaker is unable to
find lawyers enough in that body from
which to construct the Committee on
the Judiciary. Of the one hundred
members, less than a dozen are lawyers,
and of these more than one-half are
not profoundly versed in legal lore.
Both Houses and Senate adjourned on
Wednesday, out of respect to tbe memo
ry of Gen. Lee.
Amnesty Debate.
We find the following able article in
the Loaisville Courier-Journal, and ia
by far the most reasonable, best torn*
pered, logical, truthful argument we
have yet seen in print, North or South,
on tbe subject of the recent amnesty
debate :
We waive the question of sectional
strife called up by this very unhand
some and 1 insineere maneuver. The
history of the country, and particularly
the history of the South, will not suffer
from discussion, no matter what may
happen to contemporaneous politics.
Mr. Hill’s magnificent rejoinder to Mr.
Blaine may receive ten times the abuse
which has been heaped upon it, but the
facts which it gave to the public have
not been answered, and cannot be an
swered. The conduct of the North in
its invasion of the South was marked
by all the brutality which accompanies
the polioy of subjugation. Its conduct
to our prisoners was at least equal in
atrocity to that described by Mr. Blaine
and with less excuse. These things
belong to domestic feuds. We are wil
ling to pass them by, but don’t shrink
from their consideration, seeing that
we must consider the policy of the Re
publican party since the war, which
has been far more vicious. Mr. Blaine’s
boasted magnanimity is to-day signal
ized in the commercial ruin of all the
States ‘‘lately in rebellion,” brought
about by the Republican scheme of re
construction. If there has been any
let-up in the spirit of hftte inaugurated
by the Republican leaders immediately
after the Confederates laid down their
arms it has not been the resalt of any
clemency within the bosoms of those
leaders, but has been impelled by the
better nature as well as the better judg
ment of the Northern people, who, like
the Southern people, are not obdurate
ly malignant nor insensible to the every
day interests of Society and business.
To the sober minded and adaptable ge-
nius of the American character, and
not to the wooden-headed fanaticism of
Radical politicians, do the Confederates
who sit in Congress owe their seats, and
if it is to be understood that they hold
them upon a tenure of good behavior,
to be determined by Mr. Blaine and
his followers, the country should be ad
vised of tho fact so that they may ob
serve a discreeter silence than that
from which this present partisan raid
was confessedly meant to draw them.
Looking at Mr. Blaine’s movement
from this standpoint does it not justify
die descriptive epithets applied with so
much effect by Mr. Cox ? But if Mr.
Blaine thinks it profitable to engage in
the work of stirring up sectional pas
sion, how much more discreditable is it
in the political party which finds it nec
essary to appeal to those passions as a
last remaining reason why a people who
need and who want peace should retain
it in power ? The people of the North
and South hated each other with suffi
cient bitterness during their period of
difference. There was no love wasted
on either side. They fonght it out.
The origihal bone of contention was re
moved.
Neither that nor any other rensona-,
ble cause of quarrel remains. Is it the
interest, of the country that, barring
any present controversy, the two sec
tions should go back und resume their
ancient lines of battle under chieftains
who never drew a blade nor fired a shot
when heroes were at the front? We
think not, bnt when-we are dared to
face the consequences of the part we
played in the events of an era which
has now passed into history* we shall
neither blush nor grow pale. The South
is eoDseded by all the world to have
borne itself manfully in war. In peace
its leaders have observed both fortitude
and dignity. The Republican party
and tbe Republican press have done
nothing since the close of the war but
vilify the South and its people. Mr.
Hill spoke the sentiment of every in
telligent Southern man, and in the most
conservative and non-partisan spirit his
words will be endorsed all over the
South. He might have kept bis peace
and but for Mr. Blaine’s effusion he
wonld have kept it. Is it expected by
honorable men in the North that we
should be forever asking their forgive
ness ; that we should be perpetually on
oar knees before them, and that- we
should return insults the most studied
and authoritative with whining pleas
for peace ? That is out of character, sot
in human nature, and against all the
recognized principles of public policy
which should at all times be based upon
sincerity and candor. Mr. Blaine has
violated both, and that io a manner the
most barefaced, and we put Mr. Hill’s
well-timed and well-expressed impru
dence against a book full of such Hy
pocrisy. It will not wear, because It
will deceive no one; it will not win, be
cause it is opposed to every serious Amer
ican interest.
We may add, in conclusion, that,
whilst we regret the ill blood precipi
tated by Mr. Blaine’s plot against the
better temper of CcAgress and the conn-
try, we are by no means afraid of its
political consequences. If the Ameri
can people are to be prosperous and
happy, if the American Government is
to retain its free and eqdal functions,
and if the American Union is to last,
the foundation of all the
must be tbs contentment of both l
tions, the consent of all the people W
ing necessary to the healthful growth
of our institutions. If the one seetieh
is to punish the other section and nee
versa, as the one or the other hsppeRS
to have the power to do so, the aays «t
(he Republic are numbered. Thus hit
the policy of vengeance has been exclu
sively one-sided. Mr. Blaine advertis
es it for tbe next campaign, acid m
are perfectly ready to meet him Epon
the line laid down by Randall, Oox, and
Hill. All of their positions are I
ble as matters of foot attd i
THE MISSISSIPPI ELECTION-
A Letter From Ex-Senator
el8-—Facts for Senator Mofi*
ton to Ponder.
H. R. Revels, tbe colored ex-United
States Senator from Mississippi, haft
written a lettor in regard to the late
election in chat State, whiefa takes the
ground that the Republioaus were dm
feated through their own eerruptton,..
The publication of this letter is oppof*
tune, as it may materially assist Sena*
tor Morton in arriving at the truth
should his resolution to investigate
that election be adopted by the Senate>
The letter, which is dated Holly Springs,
Miss., November 6, and appeared first
in the Yieksburg Herald, is addressed
to President Grant, and reads as fob
lows .*
“My Drab Sir—In view of the M*
suits of the recent election ia our Stats,
I have determined to>Writft you a letter
canvassing the situation and giving you
my views tbereon. I will premise by
saying that I am no politician, though
having been honored by a seat ia the
United States Senate. I never have
sought political preferment, nor do I
ask it now, but am engaged-in my call*
ing, (the ministry,) and feeling an earn*
est desire for tbe welfare of all the pe0*
pie, irrespective of race or color, I nave
deemed it advisable to submit to-you,
for consideration, a few thoughte in re
gard to the political situation in thift
Slate. Since reconstruction, tbe mss*
sea of my people have been, ss it were,
enslaved in mind, by unprincipled ad*
venturers, who, earing nothing for the
country, were willing to stoop to any*
thing, no matter how infamous, to fto*
cure power to themselves and perpet
uate it. My people are naturally Re
publicans, bat as they grow older iR
freedom so do they in wisdom. AgrtSt
portion of them have learned that they
were being used as mere tools, and,, at
in the late election, not being abte te ■
correct the existing evil among them
selves, they determined by casting their
ballots against these unprincipled ad*
venturers to overthrow them. My peo
ple have been told by these schematic
when men were placed upon tiro ticket •-
who were notoriously corrupt and dir*
honest, that they must vote for thceet i
that the salvation of the party dtpm». i
ed upon it; that the man whc scratahed t
a ticket was not a Republican. Thisia
only one of the many means these ma»
lignant demagogues have devised to ,
perpetuate the intellectual bondage of
my people To defeat this policy «t
the late election, men, irrespective of ,
race or party affiliation, united and Vot
ed together against men known to bit
incompetent and dishonest.
“I cannot recognise, nor do the mas* i
sesof my people who read recognize
the majority of the officials wbo havn
been in power for the past two years SS “
Republicans. We do not betters that )
Republicanismweans corruption, theft ,
and embezzlement. Theee three offim-
ses have been prevalent among a great
portion of our office-holders ; to them
must be attributed the defeat of tbs
Republican party in the State, if de
feat there was, but I, with all the fights
before me, look upon it as an uprising
of tbe people, tbe whole people, to erush
out corrupt rings and men from power.
The bitterness and hate created by the
late civil stifo has, in my opinion, been
obliterated in this State, except, per
haps, in some localities, and would have
long since been entirely effaced were it
not for some unprincipled men who
would keep alive the bitternesa of the
past and inculcate a hatred between this
races, in order that they may Sggrandise
themselves by office and its emoluments
to control my people, tbe effect of which
is to degrade them. I give yon **y
opinion that had oar State administra
tion adhered to Republican principles,
and stood by the platform upon which
it was elected, the State to-day would
have been on the highway of prosperity..
If the State administration had aavaae- .
ed patriotic measures, appointed only
honest and competent men to office, and
sought to restore confidence between
the ness, bloodshed wonld have bean
unknown, peace wonld havepcwvailed.
Federal interference been unthought of,
and harmony, friendship and mutual
confidence would have taken Umpteen of
the bayonet. In eonefamioo, left messy -
to yon, and through yen So the pnt
Republican party of Urn North, that I
deemed it my duty, in behalf of my
people, that I present these diets, ia or
der that they and tbe white people
(tbeir former owners) should noVsafihv'
misrepresentation which
goguesi