Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1879 — More Tru than Poetical. [ARTICLE]

More Tru than Poetical.

An able speech delivered in tte House by Hon. S. S. Cox, is printed on the font th page of this paper.— Read it. Tipsy Chandler, sun-struck Blaine, Edmunds, Conklin and other bluteut loyalists, who smelled the battle from afar, now say “It was just old glory to wallop the. rebels, and we’ll tike as a reward such offices as are going. Bayonets or ballots will bo the is. sue in the coming Ohio campaign Ewing and Rice were in favor of the former during the war. They now advocate the ballot, pure and simple, without bayonet. “Charlie” foster had no use for a bayonet when he had tiio chance to use it. He staid at home when Ewing was using it. “Charlie” Foster, loyal radical candidate for Governor of Ohio, didn’t put in an appearance at the front doling the late unpleasantness, but re niained at home selling dry goods, making money, and inviting others to go. As soon as the ‘boys in blue“ returned, he was among the most boisterous in exclaiming: ’’Didn’t, we just everlastingly wallop them!” Calkins’ postmaster says the Stand ard "is highly endorsed by the Democratic Sentinel and “noisy democrats as going to be “reliably republican” in politics. Just so, Mr. ConsulThe “Sentinel and noisy democrats” have a greater admiration for a straight-out opponent than for the “milk-und waler sort. i’he “stalwarts,” tof>. wo notice, look with much favor upon the establishment of n“ reliable.” Fraud Hayes the other day transmitted to Congress the findings and report of- the military board in the Gen. Fitz John Porter case, with the ucclarutiou that he was without pow- • r to act in the premises in the ab. Hence of legislation. He never tho’t of this when he restored the naval surgeon to rank and pay; nor in the case of Maj. Runkle, who was cash iered for aiding, abetting, and sharing in the freedmen’s bureau steal.

Senator Hill, of Georgia, in his recent speech makes some telling points against the Fraud in the White House and his supporters in Congress. He quotes the fellowing from Conkling: ***** bo. when it is declared (in tne Constitution) that Congress shall have power to provide money to pay debts and for the common defense, and for ths general welfare, the plain meaning is that Congress shall do these things, and a tefusai io do them is revolutionary and subveisive of the Constitution. A refusal less fragrant would be imps achable in the case of every officer and department of tlie Government within reach of impeachment. Were the President to refuse to do any act enjoined on Idm by tlie Constitution he would be impeachable, and ought to bo convicted and removed from oilice as a convict.” Then adds: “Mr, President, I have read that clause so strongly and for cibly put by the Senator from New Yuik, to say to him, to she Senate and the country, that I indorse every word of it. 1 believe the Senator has not stated the truth too strongly. * * * The taxes are paid into the Treasury for the purposes of of supporting the Government, and the Congress which wilfully refuses to appropriate money to support the Government, in my judgment, is guil ty of revolutionary conduct which cannot be excused. * * “Now what are the facts? Mark what I state; that the refusal to vote the appropriations to suoport tho Government is unconstitutional, that we are bound by tlie very terms of our oath to take cure of this Government, to support it to maintain it, and to that end to make tne necessa ry appropriations, What are the facts? Take the Forty-fifth Congress. Every democrat in the House voted for appropriations; every democrat in the Senate voted for uppropriatfons. anc every republican in the House and Senate voted against appropria tions. Who violated the Constitution ? Did the democrats who voted to make the appropriations violate the Constitution? Did the republicans who yoted not to muke tho appropriations support the Constitution? The Sen ator says it i. a constitutional duty to make appropriations. I admit it.— Why was it that appropriations were not voted by the Forty fifth Congress to support the Army and to carry on the Government? It was because every republican in this body rallied and defeated the bill making appropriation! for that purpose. There is the record. * * The unconstitutional act of voting against appropriations was dene by the republican party. The constitutional duty of voting for appropriations was petformed by every democrat in both Houses. How then can it be charged over the country that the democratic party is responsible for rhe failure of the appropriations?

Not only was that true in the Fortyfifth Congress but it is true of the Forty-sixth. * Every democrat in both Houses voted fora bill appropriating money to support the Army, all that the Departments demand and need. Every republican in both Houses voted against it. If it is unconstitutional to refuse appropriations, who has refused appropi iations? But the Senator is right again. If it is a constitutional duty on the part of Representatives and Senators to vote for appropriations it is equally a constitutional duty on the part of tne Executive to approve the appropriation bill, because under th.-' forms of the

Constitution every bill has to go to him for approval or disapproval. The appropriations cannot be made by a majority of Congress without the concurrence of the President, and, therefore, it is just as unconstitutional for the President to defeat an appropria ion as for Congress to de so. “The President has done it in this case. ” This and next week is court week, which is characterized by the number of Boots and Shoe? 8. Bass has sold, and ekpects to sell before its adjournment. Quick sales and small profits. P 8. Some of the manufactualng States think that a fight would be awful. Without a little blood-letting this Union will not, in my estimation, be worth a rush. Z. Chaneler. Tipsy Zach., when he wrote the above, February, 1861, was a representative statesman? of the radical persuasion. Then, as now, he was an oracle with the sectional party north. In accordance with the wish of the tipsy Michigander, a terrible civil war ensued. There was not “a little blood-letting, ' but a deluge. And how much blood-iettingdid the maudlin chairman of the Northern Radical committee submitto. Notoneof the loud-mouthed clamorers for blood, the Chandlers, Blaines, Conklings, et al., lent a hand to crush out rebellien after they had incited it. There was to them “millions in it’’ staying at home, and they made the millions. I Have now a splendid stock of Boots and Shoes which I am offering to my many customers at greatly reduced prices. S. BAss.-

Delegate Maginnes, of Montana, was the orator of the day at the Decoration of the Soldiers’ Home near Washington city. The following is an excerpt from the speech, which being somewhat out of the line of these grave-yard efforts, will undoubtedly attract attention: “When the soldiers of the North came h >me they found nearly all the places of honor and emolument filled. A great parade was made over them by men who had profited bv their efforts and who were witling to give them any subordinate or clerical situation which wasyacantand not wanted. But it any of the politicians ever yet said to the returning veteran: — “Here take my place under the government, in the Congress, in the Cabinet,” let the name of that undiscov cred patriot be brought to the sun light of fame. So, when the war was over they retained their places in the fi out to search the record of some new combatant on the other side, and cover him with confusion in ths noisy but safe warfare of Congressional debate. The conflict that should have ended in the field is aenewed in the Senate, and such laurels as never wreathed the hero’s sword bud and blossom on the politician’s jaw. Oh, shade of the immortal Falstaff! confess thyself undone in this land, of ours! Thou didst at least stab and carry off the dead body of Percy while yet warm and bleeding. Let thy hardened cheek be softened and thy brazen brow abashed before the gladiators of our Senatorial arena who knock down and daag out the mou dering body of the Confederacy some fifteen years after the war!”

The Ohio House of Representatives on Thursday of week before last passed a bill—ayes 57, nays 33—to block the game of Federal troops and deputy marshals as an intimidating and controlling power in State elections. It provides that a* all places where there is liability of such interference in elections the polls for the election of all other officers save Congressmen shall be held at least 300 feet away from where the elections for Congressmen are held. We don’t know whether this is practicable or not, but it shows the temper of the Democra cy in regard to the interference of Federal troops and marshals with the elections. The debate on the bill was of a rather heated character, as the extract below indicates: Mr. Booth (Dem.) referred to the second election of Lincoln, saying an honorable member of the House of Ohio Representatives had been arrested and deprived frornfol lowing his business for three weeks Because lie would not vote the republican ticket. Mr. Wasson (rep.) asked if that was not the time when half a million of Democrats were fighting to overthrow the Government? Mr. Booth said it was the time when two-thirds of the soldiers in the Northern army were Democrats, fighting to sustain the Government, and when such patr.ots as Janies G, Blaine, the bloody shirt orator, was bleeding and dying by means of a substitute, who afterward deserted. (Applause.) Mr. Wasson required a more effectual setting down before he was satisfied, and asked if the period Mr. Booth referred to was not about the time C. L. Vallandigham was opposing the Government? Mr. Booth said that he was not so certain about that, but he did know it was exactly at the time Major-Gener-als Longstreet and Key, the leaders of the Southern zepubHcans, were in open rebellion, and When the murderer, Mosey, one of Hayes’ latest appointees was cutting the throats of Union captives in cold blood! The Democrats broke out in rapturous applause, and the republicans doubted the value of Mr. Wasson as an interrupter in debate.

Senator Ben. Hill declared recently that out of the twelve Georgia inombers eight down to the secession of their State were open and avowed Union men, and also that out of the ninety three members of Congress from the Southern States eighty-five were prominent opponents ot the doctrine of secession. This has been investigated and the conclusion is an emphatic endorsement of the Georgia Senator’s assertion; nine tenths of the Southern delegation ip Congress “were Union men up to the very hour they wete required to fight for or against their native States, and that they then stood up like men for their co 11 vie ti o ns. “

The “Cantata” at the Presbyterian Church, to-night. Those in need of Boots and Shoes will do well to anil on 8. Bass. “Ben” Smoot returned f’om lowa last evening. Track laying is going on briskly between Monticello and Delphi. Mrs. Hope B. Miller, for garden vegetables, will please accept thanks. D. H. Yeoman has been engaged in placing the Fair Grounds in proper shape. Senator Major and State Prison Director Hoover were in Rensselaer Tuesday. One hundred and thirteen laps around David Davis makes one mile* —Atlanta Constitution. Mr. J. C. Vanßensselaer, of Mew Brunswick, N. J., son of the founder of Rensselaer, is in town. The dinner, supper and festival, under the auspices or the ladies of the M. E. Church was a success. Mis. E. P. Hammond and Miss Dete” Boroughs will please accept our thanks for handsome boquets. The best place to buy’ Groceries cheap is none other than Charley Platt’s, next door to A. Leopold's.— Call and be convinced. At the meeting of the Town Board, Monday, June 9, Wm. Powers, newly elected Marshal, filed his bond and oath of office for the term of one year from the sth day of May, 1879. Said bond was duly considered and approved by tho Board, and the Marshal directed to enter upon the duties of his office. — The books and notes of Ira W. Yeoman have been placed in the hands of Elza I. Phillips for immediate adjustment. All parties having cases commenced in the Courts or for Pensions will report to him and their cases will be vigorously prosecuted to a conclusion.

IRA W. YEOMAN.

Extensive preparations are being made by the Masonic fraternity for a pic-nic at Monticello on St. John’s Day. Judge Hammond is announced for an oration. “Do you call that a veal cutlet, waiter?” said a customer, “why, it is an insult to every true calf in the country.” “I didn’t mean to insult you, sir.” said the waiter.—Unidentified Exchange. Kellogg told the Republican caucus of the Louisiana Legislature, which seat him to the United States Senate, that if they intended to drop him they coqld “go to hell,” and he would turn everything over to the Democracy. As he went to the Senate, the Republican caucus, it is presumed, did not go 10 the hot place suggested by Kellogg.