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Black on Garfield.
Open Letter from the Cheat
Lawyer to the ‘'Christian’'
Terrible Excoriation of James A.
and His Party in 1870.
lo lion. James A Garfield ,
ofi Congress j'rom Ohio :
I have read the speech you sent me.
I am astonished and shocked, As
the leader of your party, to
the candidates have specially
ed the conduct of the pending
paign, you should have met your re¬
I sponsibilities in a very lecture different way.
do not presume to so distin¬
guished a man upon his errors; but
if I can prevent you, even to a small
extent, from abusing the ill i s_-Ci£dUL
anxiety *■ p®aa»*iiig
only my relations great to presei ve the
fraternal existing between us
for many years. I follow the Ilora
tian rule, and come at once to “the
middle of things.” back
You trace the origin ' of present
parties to the earliest immigrations at
I’lymouth and Jamestown, and profess
to find in the opposing doctrines then
planted and aiterwards constantly
cherished in Massachusetts and V ir
ginia, the germs ot those ideas as
which now make Democracy aud Abol
itionism the deadl) T toes of each other,
The ideas so planted in Massachusetts
were, according to yonr account, the
freedom and equality of all races, and
the right and duly of every man to
exercise his private judgment in poll
tics as well as in religion. On the
other hand you se forth as irrecon
si ably host, e the doctrine of Virginia,
that capital should own labor that
the negro had no rights of manhood,
and that the white man might buy,
own and sell lnm and h.s offspring
forever others, hollowing these assertions
wnh and linking the present
with the long past, you employ the
devices of your rhetoric o g onfy the
modern abolitionist and to throw foul
scorn, not merely on the Southern P eo
pie, but on the whole Democracy ot
cou
m, TUib look® . f laarood , , anl , philosophical, ... . . .
and it Ki»aa yoor speech a.dignity
seemingly above the reach of the ordre
nary demagogue. Happy la he who
knows theoanaea of th.nga, (el.oitoua
is the partisan member ot Congress
whose stump speech goes up the river
of time to the first fountains of good
and evil. But your contrast of hietori
cal fact is open to one objectm
I give you m a forms- wholly ' ,
ble when I_say teat it is
of trut) This, of course,implies
putation .. no
ou yo Ur th”e good faith
high character in church aa well
as the State, forbids the belief that you
would be guilty of willful misrepresen
tation.
A FUNDAMENTAL REPUBLICAR LIE
Yon th»f I . ^ la v
c\Uv different cole thenrin, nmeT -ttl I!
Ure of onr 6
lievinr? natioiT ami holdmcr insiatmVtwf rbot . &
' the South 6 e
o n !y a confederation u cverei , £ u
States” It ia not tm ■> that U /» 8lK
theorical Morions conflict .ThatJ. ever m
federation first and the
tei wards united the States together for
* L* 1 uduonal
^ " r£m‘ 7 “X* fo? k sSr*‘.* t* e°u 0TMB -
1 rowaJouVhe
They * bestowed certain 4
and □ew political called it corporation the United the States created,
of
America, and they expressly reserved
to themselves all the sovereign rights
not granted in the charter. Democra-l
tic statesmen had no theory about it
The saw their duty written down in
the fundamental law ; they swore to
perform it, and they kept their oaths.
They executed the powers of the Gen
eral Government in their whole consti
tutional vigor, for that, as Mr. Jeffer
sen said, was “the sheet anchor of our
peace at home and our safety abroad,”
and they carefully guarded the rights
of the States as the only security we
could have for a just administration of
our domestic affairs. This was univer
sally assented to as right and true. No
counter theory was set up. Differences
of construction there might be, but all
admitted that when the line of power
was accurately drawn between the Fed
eral Government and State sovereignty,
the rights on one side were as sacred
as those on the other. But within two
or three } ears last past the low dema
gogues of your party have got to put
ting in their platforms the assertion
that this is a nation and not a confed
eration.
What do they mean? What do you
mean when you indorse and repro¬
duce it? Do you deny that the States
were sovereign before they united?
Do you affirm that their sovereignty
was wholly merged in the Federal
Government when they assented to
the Constitution? Is the tenth amend¬
ment a mere delusion? Do you mean
to assert that the States have not now,
and never had, any rights at all ex¬
cept what are conceded to them at the
mercy of the “Nation?” No doubt this
new article was inserted in the creed
of the Abolitionists because they sup¬
posed it would give a sort of plausibil¬
ity to their violent intervention with
the internal affairs of the States. But
it is so false, so shallow, and so desti¬
tute of all respectable authority that
it imposes upon nobody.
There is- one conclusive proof of
your enmity to the Union, and that is
your unwavering opposition to the
Constitution which held the States to¬
gether. You know as well as I do
how absurd it is to suppose that any
man or party can support the Union,
^^Uid-sAfiha-eame Genetitution, and time certainly trample on the not
you are
ignorant that you and your predeces
sors, from the earliest times, have been
anti-Constitutional in all yourproclivi
ties. Contemptuous disregard of Con
stitutional obligations is not now the
mere germ of a doctrine; it is a part
of your settled creed. Before the wf r
and since you have trodden under foot
every provision contained in the great
charter of our liberties. I do not
speak at random, I challenge you to
designate a single Constitutional right
of the Statos, or of individuals which
you have not at some time or in some
way deliberately violated,
“ T]IE Mosx unkindest cut of all.”
You will pardon me, I am sure, for
re f err ing to this affair; you ' are the
1:i8t man upou whom L w ukl make a
nal and j could not do it
here if L wouM try . for the conviction
{ have often expressed remains un
changed) that your integrity was not
stained bv such co.mectio.i as you had
with that business. But we both know
that it Wi , s the most gigantic fraud
that tho history of modern times dia
c i oge8 The magD itude of the iniquity
almogt exceeds belief. The entire
amonnt of the booiy ah . ead takenaway
lrom pocketa the public * aud stowed away in the
f the perpetrators cannot be
l eS8 than one himdred million dollars,
ami eveiy six months they make a new
d e.„»od, which ia honored at the
treasure hy an additional Attorney payment. I
am lold that „ Uta Gen
er „, co „ rls 08,000,000 j ' as the -
which tho Ulllte s tate8
8olid cash direct!tT will lose in
’ takeii out of the
treasury j
j .
not sure that this calculation
is accurate, but it cannot be very far
wrong, and it is not equal to one-half
of the road ^ itself, nor
,,, ai £ raut f f. u °r the proceeds of the
, to which the lien of the United
Wa f P ost As P one d, nor the equip
‘ this swindle was the
largest so it was one of the most in
ex c«sably base. It was perpetrated at j
a tlme ween the nation was swamped I
.
" heu P eo P' e "'era load
'“«• " nd whfD >!» ®«t rigtd'
^ et ^ u ° m y was imperatively required. I
j I evidence, • clrcums show j- ance that . as it was as no the sudden, direct;
j°f thoughtless impudence, but was
k j W1 ,nged flfikberately ami aud corruptly
re '* , ?!
'f V otbia 8 to ^mitigat©' it; you cannoti
* **** ^ WalV1Dg the bloody
did the Re P^. licaa “pun
t aM'onXheJof'nny ™cai'
was touched ; the most guilty of them
“° W ‘ “ ,he V were bef0M the
d ' '
rZ;«?, “ ri i 08 !, 0f Ihs E«n!
i-" .i-Lkm ludkrtf are periodically .»rU Wit #< Jii>- sweiang the |
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1880.
colossal proportions of their crime by
taking out of the treasury additional
millions which they claim as the “pre
cious results” ot their original fraud.
They have no better title to them than
the wolf has to the mutton he slaugh
tere by moonlight. The legal remedy
against these exactions is so plain that
ignorance alone could hardly miss it.
But your officers have found out the
way not to do it. They permit the
Government to lie down and be robbed
semi-annually by a corporation which
Tilden would long ago have disarmed
of its power, anal whose criminal abet
tors he would fmve swept into the
peniteniiary I that by I scores. do blame
repeat not you as
an active accomplice in this wickedness
But you ought to have come out from
the corrupt fellowship as soon as you
saw how evil and corrupt it was. You
owed it to yourself, your church aud
your country to break off at once from
political associates capable of such in
defensible conduct. But your accept
auce of the doctrines pla ted at Ply
mouth by the Yankees blinded your
judgment and made your conscience
inaccessible to the principles "people planted
in Jerusalem by the first call
ed t n Cnnstians , • .. at i Antioch. a
HOISTED BY HIS OWN PETARD.
Speaking of reconstruction and see¬
ing your broad accusations of treason,
I am tempted to ask if you are sure
that you yourself and your associates
did not commit that crime.
In March 1867, the then exiting
government of the Union was supreme
all over the countiy, and every State
had a separate government of its own
for the administration of its domestic
concerns. That government was en¬
titled then, if it ever was, to the uni¬
versal obedience of all citizens, ancl you,
its officers, had taken a special oath of
fidelity to it. Nevertheless you made a
deliberate arrangement, not only to
withdraw your support from it, but to
overthrow it totally in ten of the States,
and this you did by military force. In
all the South you levied war against
the nation and against the defenseless
destroyed the free government
both, and substituted in their place
untempered and absolute despotism.
Now, suppose you had been iudicted
this, how could you have escaped
condemnation of the law? I know
excuses, and I can understand
claims to mercy; but what legal
could you have made consis¬
with your own argument aud (he
of the court iu the Milligan
?
I cannot desciibe to you how un¬
is the sensation produced by
profes-ions of a desire for peace.
Why do you not give us peace if you
willing we shall have it ? You
but cease hostilities and the gen¬
tranquility will be restored. You
to do that because peace would
your party a : tdency. To
maintain your plunde ers in power,
have uniformly resorted to (he
have made civil war the
condition of the country—
wherever you have displaced liberty,
and equality, and given
instead but infantry, artillery
cavalry. You are at this moment
engaged in preparing your bat
for aimed intervention in the
of the people with the car
What makes this worse is your de
that you take no step
There is to be no rep* it
change of policy, and cou-e
no peaceful or houest govern
“Onward, you say, is (he
Onward to what ? To
more plunder, mor* 0 pp ree8 j on
universal ^Q^juptcy, heavier
an frauds the
,1 * ^ w0rSe on
r uuiic treasury.
J. S. Black.
A Fool Once More.
“For ten years my wife was confined
to her bed with such a complication of
ailments that no doctor could tell what
was the matter or cure her, and I used
Six up a months small fortune I in humbug^stuff. United fatales
ago saw a and 1
flag with Hop Bitters on it,
thought I would be a fool once more.
I tried it, but my folly proved to be
wisdom. Two bottles cured her, she is
now as well and strong as any man’s
wife, and it co?t me only two dollars.
Such folly pays.— B. W. Detroit, M :
- — — —
The Mormon population of Utah .
has increased 45 per cent, in the
ten years, and the non-Mormon pop
ulation d'30 per cent. There are tie irly
four Mormons, however, to one Gentile
the Territory.
-- - m — -
G en ; R ^ecrans says: “lam tired
North,\n . d C ^hope^to^hear
Amerilm. “ V “' ° f a “ ““ iible
-- -- m ■
This wear's 7^,4 yield of Un ponnda? in India
eat.ma.rf at
dooble th8t of ls78 - Ten years ago
it was unde*- , 14,000,000.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
__
WILL NOT (, LET WELL ENOUGH
ALONE!”
-nr ■* r;-, j . r „, ere are some people
j • A , [L / who , ““‘‘toted
are B °
. ] never satisfied, uoless
.. v “ re '“ * ,
or raising a rum
f { sort I0n [ w 4 lcb tb ®7 are
^ “ . d ,' to , be tbe fevers.
ou “
a . tbe M°ining
11
V U n f °. tba ^ c as ^. nce
.. • °{ the Pr siden , ,al ,
£ “Y , ^ 1 » g h ed f / Warsaw T eam- „
f 1 re ^ a ir *
c s Uie i cen back , party of Geor
• - ed &nd
1 ?““ rn f , (^ot 8 abandon)
\ °, oie S° to
•
/ r 1 Ci P ' or cam P ai M n
q* \ e ^V.,, ' be Democracy, so
Crt! > 0 1 °ut the Radical
. n lbat tb Greenback
^ jj^us 8 ^ m anti ® ** d
1 ° created
-r. „ T had lon made ,
f 0 / 0 6 8 °. r S1 “ ce ancocb and U P
?? ’*"* P , art a / bad J , ltb fvised , wh ° , m the 1 members bad been l
* n ac f 0 °,.. e 8a F*. e
, - R , ■ .
V a °, Cie r \ et 1 or ’ mbis .
old 'hT hulk ell , Ail*J witn which n 1 ! 1ld , h he Up has . *"f been rotteB so
long . associated, , , has , descended , , ,, from the
lofty plane of controversy and on two
or three occasions of late has gone out
of bis way to attack the Greenback
party aud individual members of it.
I have considerable patience, as a
general thing, but there are times
when “patience ceases to be a virtue,”
and, in justice to the party with which
I have had the honor to act in the
P'ist, I think it is time to “dip in my
oar.” It would be well for that paper
to consider one of two policies, wheth¬
er it is best to conciliate and draw to
the support of its party those who are
known to have no sympathy with the
Radicals aud some little with the De¬
mocracy, or drive them off to other
folds. And the latter policy, by its
strictures on the Greenback party, is
piecisely what it is now inconsiderate¬
ly doing.
In its issue of last Thursday it has
two remarkable editorials, one under
the heading “Is It a Little Learning or
Fraud ?” and the other “The Stock of
Coin iu the Country.” The first we
have named is devoted entirely to the
consideration of a speech said to have
been delivered by Hon. Gilbert De La
Matyr at Chattanooga. Tenn. In that
aiticle the Hon. gentleman is accused
of one of two things, ignorance of
finance or a disposition to deceive
While I am not much given to flattery,
I undertake lo say Mr. De La Matyr
knows rn o abuut finance in one day
than Ihe editor of the Neios ever
dieame i of in all his philosophy. The
fundamental plank iu the Greenback
pi at toi u being finance, he is compelled
to study and to uudeistand it thorough
ly.
Great stress is laid upon the re
[tori, by telegraph, that this gentleman
said, “that the United States owed
twenty billions dollars.” I take it on
myself to affirm that Mr. De LaMatyr
said no such thing, aud that, too, with
out having seen the speech or any
repoit of it except what I find in this
editorial of the News. The whole
thing is so ridiculous it is impossible
even for the editor of the News to be
lieve it. It is possible he may have
used such an expression in speaking
the collective debts of the count-, Gut
he is too well posted ti»' f
himself wide to have laid
diously open eu(dl a 6tup en
nonsensical expression as the
one attributed J t0 him. So that the
sage ^-presBion of this ancient editor,
that “it h by the use of such vaguely
voluminous verbiage a.s billions that
demagogues ‘catch pigeons’ or wise
acres delude themselves,” is unwitty,
pointless, and flat.
Yet with all his “vaguely voluminous
verbiage'' the News ha 3 a place in
big heart for him, for it says “Mr. Da
La Malyr bank s political view of the na
t i ona l system is sound
C y_” Indeed 1 Is there that much
v i r tue in a Greenbacker that he can
adv auce a solitary sound visw ? The
fact that it not long since accused this
party of being so corrupt it was
paring to sell out to the highest bidder,
WO uld preclude the idea that it was
sonn J i n anything, much
f c views And with all its stalwartism
tbe has failed to
t j 10 superiority of its preteusions
CC pt the tact that the Radicals are
and the Democrats want to got them
out, and in its desire to accomplish
this it even appropriates
j thunder and claims that the success
' resumption is all owing to the
of Democratic measures. That may
I -to tell to the marines; sailors will
'believe it.” The facts in the case
too patent. The Radicals are corrupt
^'Rend^r
j C Twdl
resumruon bill sensation* bv Congress- I well
member the remembh k
| .sands the coaotry; of consent I weii predictions the that
fwou.u prove a ruinous failure.
resumption day arrived and the gold
and silver had even preceded it in the
business of the country, and it has pro¬
gressed from day to day until now it is
a fixed fact. Is it fair, then, that the
Democrats should take the credit of its
success when they opposed it from its
incipiency until its accomplishment ?
By no means. The silver, Radicals and were they
wrong in demonetizing
are wrong now in attempting to pre¬
vent its general circulation. It is
coin—honest money—and just what
the people want and will have. But
do not filch from them the only good
thiDg they have ever done since they
have been in power. L.
Thursday’s Rainstorm.
Those who had the rheumatism or
tickets to the big Coney Island festival
were not pleased with the weather on
Thursday morning. It was cool, a
breeze fanned the city, the sun was ob¬
scured by light but ominous clouds,
and the air was damp. During the
previous night sleep returned to thou¬
sands who had almost given up hoping
for a return of the sensation. The
dwellers in the swarming tenements
around the Five Points crept up to
their beds before midnight, instead of
sleeping on the sidewalks or the roofs,
and the tramps on the Park benches,
who had been enjoying the best sleep¬
ing accommodations obtainable, shiv¬
Early ered and complained of the change.
in the afternoon the clouds thick¬
ened and there set in a rainstorm
heavy enough for a March duy. A raw
northwesterly wind blew while the
storm prevailed, which was from 3
o’clock in the afternoon until 10 o’clock
at night. The clerk in charge of the
signal office reported the rainful at one
inch and eighty-one hundredths—the
heaviest in a year and a half, he says.
At 3 o’clock in the afternoon the then*
mometer registered 69 degrees, and the
wind's velocity was eight miles an hour.
Exchange place, in Jersey City, from
the Pennsylvania ferry to Hudson
street, was flooded. The tide filled the
sewers, and the water in the street rose
until it covered the sidewalk on the
north side of the street. Brooklyn suf¬
fered moat. The defective sewer sys¬
The tem there produced serious damage.
water was so the high in some of the
lower streets of city that it washed
into the bottoms of the street cars.
The trains on the Brooklyn, Flat
bush and Coney Island Railroad passed
over their route slowly, especially
In through the tunnel at Prospect Hill.
Flushing avenue, opposite 531 and
539, the street has caved in, and the
holes interfere with travel. The pave¬
ments at Ellery street and Marcey ave¬
nue have also sunk. Two four-story
French flat buildings with brown-stone
fronts, which are being built by T. W.
Swimm, have been undermiued by the
rains. The party wall has sunk, and
the whole structure is belived to be in a
dangerous condition, so that it will
probably have to be torn down .—New
York Sun.
How Gen, Simpson Served a Bully.
[From Colburn’s U. States Magazine for July.]
When the allip^ occupied Paris the
French office^ a t all times superior
with tb‘j small sword and equal with
tb^ p j st oi to Englishman took every
opportunity to insult the officers of the
army of occupation, and it has been
alleged that there was a dub of French
men the members of which had sworn
of devote their lives to tho killing of
one by one of the English;army. who
There was one Frenchman
boasted of having killed a dozen of
English officers, and promis-d to go on
in this work. One evening he swag
gered as usual into his cafe, and to
his astonishment actually saw one of
those hated Anglais occupying his
a chair, be it remembered, that
ino one hitherto had dared to sit upon
!except himself. Mastering his passion,
undid his sword belt, and having
placed his sword on one side began to
tinsult the perfectly inoffensive Eaghsh
officer who sat so unconscious looking
tin his (the Frenchman’s) chair. Ho
upon the Englishmans toes,
I deprived the Englishman of his cauUie-,
|he went from one thing to another
at all bemg ahle to disturb the
|Other’s placidity. At last he snatched
(the newspaper out of the Englishman's
and then the Briton slowly rose
displayed Gall to the astonished eyes
of the a guardsman some six feet
j six inches high. The giant bending
j across the table, eeiz 1 hold of the
j Frenchman's nose with one hand and
bis chin with the other, and,
his mouth open, spat down his throat,
a howl the Frenchman, bolding
j his underjaw with boMa hands ran out
of the room. K; - j was broken, and
! we^een L Me ' w" may
1 't^u/LdeU';'i“ James
wi-the late G-ucr« Sir Simp
;son, Cries, who for a •,me commanded in th.
and wt > irom the day be join
ed-he service unto his death was the
officer m the BrvUah hffliy.
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CARPENTER,
YORK STREET, second door east of Hull.
Jobbing promptly attended to. Estimates
furnished when e< sired. j el Mim
BEEF, VEAL AND LAMB.
JOS. H. BAKER,
BUTCHER,
STALL No. Savannah Market.
A LL market other meats rates. In Orders their season promptly at lowest filled
and delivered. Will victual ships throughout.
Give him a trial. o«Sll-tf
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AND ICE HOUSE,
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residences, and and dispatch. all orders executed with
promptness Satisiactiou guar
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Bair Cutting, Hair Dressing, Curling and
SHAVING SALOON.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
I 66 J 4 Iiryau street, epposite the Market, un
der Planters’ Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger
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RESTAURANT,
No. 11 New Market Basoment,
(Opposite Llppman’s Drug Store,)
lan 131.1 SAVANNAH. GA
Plumbing and Gaa Fitting*
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Piumbing, Gas & Steam Fitting,
No. IS BARNARD STREET, one door north
or South Broad troet.
Bath Tubs. Water Clospta, Boilers, Ranges,
Joboiug Promptly attended to.
enll Also, Agent of “ BACKUS WATER MOTOR,
McELLINN & McFALL,
PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING.
Na. 16 WAitaker street, corner York st. Lane
N.B. Houses fitted with gas and water at
short notice, Jobbing promptly attended to
and all work guaranteed, at low prices.
sepTtl
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East side of Bull street, one door from York,
Practical Plumber and Gas Fitter
JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
All work guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Prices to suit the times. mli7tf
Paints, Oils and Glass*
JOHN 0. BUTLER
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
WHITE LEADS COLORS, OILS, GLASS,
VARNISH, ETC.
Mill Ready Mixed Paints, Railroad, Steamer and
Calcined Supplies. Sole Cements, Agent for Hair Georgia atid Laud Lime
Plaster, Plaster,
No. 22 Drayton street,
janlotl SAVANNAH. GA.
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■Dealer in—
Doors, Suhes, Blinds, Mouldings
Limo, Plaster, Hair and Cement,
STEAMBOAT,
llailroad and Mill Supplies,
paints, oils, varnishes, glass, &o.
No. 6 Whitaker & 171 Bay St.,
HA VA NNAH, GEORG ly i
my2ti-t.f
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— Dealer in —
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PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, Sits •J
DOORS, HASHES, BLINDS, MOULD1NU
Balusters, Blind Trimminqs,
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