Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1874 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

Tljp Massachusetts .Democracy on the 9th nominated William Gaston for Governor and William S. Smith for Lieutdhant-Govemor. The resolutions favor specie payments and a suitable license law. * ’ The Minnesota Itepublican Convention which met at Minneapolis on - the 9th nominated J. R. McMillan for Chief-Jus-tice and F. It. E. Cornell for AssociateJustice. At the Michigan .State Reform Convention-, held at Jadkson on the 9th, the following ticket was nominated: For Governor, Henry Chamberlain; Lieuten-ant-Governor, Jerome W-Turner; Secretary ofj State, George H. House; Treasurer, William J. Hewitt; Auditor-Gen-eral, F. M. Holloway; Commissioner of the -State Land Office, Chauncey W. Greene; Attorney-General, Andrew T. Mcßeynolds; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Duane Doty; State Board of Education, Carroll 8. Frazer. The following ladies were f. selected officers of the lowa Woman’s Suffrage Association at a meeting held in Des Moines on the 9th: President, Lizzie Boynton Harbert; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Landess; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs.Orwig.

The Nebraska Independent State Convention on the 9th nominated J. F. Gardner fpr Governor, Henry Weib for Secretary of State and J. W. Davis for Congressman. The platform favors the resumption of specie payments; cheap transportation; opposes land grants to railroads; favors a reduciion of taxes and tariff; opposes the patent monopoly and favors a uniform license law. The New York Liberals met in State Convention at Albany on the 9th, bat decided to make no nominations. The resolutions oppose a third term, and favor specie payments and free banking. Alexander Mitchell, President of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, has written a letter to the Wisconsin Railroad Commissioners similar in import to the one previously sent by President Keep,,of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. The recent election in Colorado for Delegate -to Congress resulted in the election of Thos. M. Patterson (Dem.) by about 1,600 majority. Mrs. Stonehouse, of Grand Rapids, Ohio,'and Rose Dennis and her mother, of Sterling, 111., were burned to death on the 9th by the use of kerosene for kindling fires. The Chicago Inter-State Exposition was opened on the evening of the 9th, and the Indianapolis Exposition on the 7th.. Both were largely attended and promise to be altogether successful. According to telegraphic displtches received at the Executive office at New Orleans on the 9th, the parish officers of Bienville Parish had been waited upon by the White League and forced to resign.

The following Congressional nomina-. tions were made on the 9th: Democratic — Gen. John B. Clark, Eleventh Missouri District, renominated; Hon. Milton Sayler, First Ohio District, renominated; Gen. Henry B. Banning, Second Ohio District, renominated; Col. H. Casey Young, Tenth Tennessee District. Reform and Liberal —E. St. Julien Cox, Second Minnesota District; Prof. D. G. Pinckney, Fifth Illinois District; Freeman Kelly, Seventh Indiana District. The British ship Euxine, in a recent voyage from England to Aden, was totally destroyed by fire. Twenty-one of her crew reached St. Helena after a voyage of 1,100 miles in open boats. A State Convention of the Democrats of Nebraska was held on the 10th and the following ticket nominated: A. Tuxbury for Governor; John Atherly for Secretary of State; R. CVJordan for At-torney-General, and J. W. Savage for Congressman. Prof. Winchell, who accompanied the Custer expedition to the Black Hills as Geologist, in his official report discredits the rumors of the finding of gold in any appreciable quantity. According to a dispatch of the 10th, a' squad of United States troops had arrested seven of. the men said to have . been engaged in the recent massacre of prisoners at Trenton, Tenn. The following Congressional nominations were made on the 10th: Republican—Lloyd Lowndes, Sixth Maryland District, renominated; Wm. S. King, Third Minnesota; H. B. Strait, Second Minnesota, renoininated; S. A. Hurlßut, Fourth Illinois, renominated. Democratic—Henry Boyle, Sixteenth Ohio; W. A. J. Sparks, Sixteenth Illinois. Reform and Independent—Col. Jeff. A. Seay, Fifth Missouri; A. Y. Pendleton, Sixth Indiana; A. G. Cook, Second Wisconsin; Alexander Campbell, Seventh Illinois. The Democrats of Michigan held their State Convention at Kalamazoo on the 10th, and nominated the following ticket: Governor, Henry Chamberlain; Lieu-tenant-Governor, Frederick Hall; Secretary State, George H. House; State Treasurer, Joseph M. Sterling; Auditor-. General, John H. Graus; Commissioner State Land Office, Chauncy W. Green; Attorney-General, Martin V.’ Montgomery; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Duane Doty; Member of the State Board of Education, E. W. Andrews. The resolutions demand the abandonment of all efforts to rule States for corrupt party purposes; the repeal of the “grab” law and the “gag” law; the reservation of public, lands for the actual settler; the <yepeal of the Legal- - Tender act; specie payments and free banking. # The Nebraska Prohibitionists met at Lincoln on the 10th and nominated the foUowing ticket: For Governor, J. S.

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

Church; Secretary of State, W. G. Ollonger; Treasurer, Thompson Bissel; Attorney-General, present incumbent, ¥. R. Webster; Superintendent of Public" Instruction, J. N. McKenzie; Prison Irf -spector, C. B. Parker; Congressman, J.. G. Miller; contingent Congressman, J. A Fairbanks. .- * __ fX f The Arkansas State Democratic- Contention was held on the 9th and Gov. Baxter, the jpresent Incumbent, was unanimously nominated for Governor. He refused to run and A. H. Garland was subsequently nominated in bis place. Five suits have been brought at Burlington, lowa, against the C. B. & Q. Railroad Company for violation of the lowa Railroad law. A terrific collision occurred on the Great Eastern Railway near Norwich, England, on the morning of the 11th, in consequence of which twenty persons were Wiled outright and fifty injured, some of them very badly. Elsewhere appears tjie rubstance Of the reply of Mr: F. _D. Moulton to the allegations of Mr. Beecher in his recent ; Statement to the Investigating Committee of Plymouth Church. The full text of the reply covers twenty-one newspaper columns. A telegram of the 13th announces the death of M. Guizot, the distinguished French scholar and statesman.

On the 12th the operators in the cotton mills of Bolton, England, to the number of 13,000, struck for higher wages. Seventy-four mills were forced to suspend operations. The Captain-General o Cuba has ordered a draft of 8,000 men and a forced loan of $500,000 in gold and SIOO,OOO ifi paper. In order to secure the consideration of a claim for a pension under the permanent disability act of June 18,1874, it isnecessary for the applicant to show that he requires the • aid and attendance of i another person. Col. Whitely, Chief of the Secret Service Bureau, has been indicted, with several of his assistants, for the bogus safe burglary affair which occurred several months ago. Additional Congressional nominations: Republican—Col. C. W. Thrasher, Sixth Missouri District. Democratic —Col. John F. Phillips, Seventh Missouri; Dan. B. Woods, Nineteenth Ohio. In his official report Gen. Custer, for military reasons, takes strong grounds in favor of the immediate opening of the Black Hills to settlement. He indorses the report of the gold discoveries. On the 12th the South Carolina State Republican Convention nominated D. H. Chamberlain for Governor and R. H. Gleaves for Lieutenant-Governor. R. B. Elliott was appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee.

A London telegram of the 14th says the Standard had received information that the Schleswig-Holstein question was assuming a serious aspect in conse•quence of daily expulsions of Danish subjects and the hostile tone of the German press. On the 14th Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, demanded of the President aid to repress domestic violence. The election in Maine, on the 14th, resulted in the success of the Republicans by from 9,000 to 12,000 majority. The Legislature is largely Republican, and the Republican candidates for Congress were successful. According to a report from the Indian Agent at Ponco Reservation, white men were coming into the Black Hills from Montana and elsewhere in great numbers. The Democrats of the Eighth Ohio District nominated J. E. Pearson for Congress on the 14th. The recent outbreak and fighting in the streets of New Orleans will be found elsewhere fully described. The International Postal ConljreSs' convened at Berne, Switzerland, on the 10th. The delegates from the United States had not arrived. The President issued a proclamation on the 15th, in relation to the Louisiana affairs, concluding as follows: t‘ Now, therefore, I, U. S. Grant, President of the United States, do hereby make proclamation and command said turbulent and disorderly persons to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective '‘"abodes within five days from* this date, "and hereafter to submit themselves to the laws and constituted authorities of said State. I invoke the aid and co-operation of all good citizens thereof to uphold the law and preserve the public peace.” According to a Washington telegram of the same date, troops would be sent to New Orleans in such numbers as should be necessary to save life and preserve peace. On the 15th the Supreme Court of Wisconsin rendered a decision in the injunction suits brought by the Attorney-Gen-eral against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the Chicago & Northwestern Railroads. The court maintains its original jurisdiction in cases brought by the State, but holds that it would not extend to private suits; affirms the constitutionality of the Potter law; rejects the theory that this law was repealed by the act of March 12, prescribing that the railroads shall make reasonable rates; and, finally, grants the ipj unction asked for the State compelling these two railroads to comply with the provisions es the Potter law. The roads are given till Oct. 1 to make arrangements to this end. It is said Mr. Keep, President of the Northwestern, has stated that compliance with the law will necessitate a reduction of expenses on all sideSj fewer traits and second-class coaches will be run, that work wil be suspended in the shops, and

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that the number of employes will be reduced. Mr. Mitchell, President of the Milwaukee & St. Paul, says that trains wilj be run on his road as usual, and only cut off as it' becomes obvious that they a3rd unprofitable. The following Congressional nominations were made on the 15th: Demo-cratic-Fourth Michigan District, Allen Potter; Eighth Michigan, George F. Lewis; Eleventh Illinois, Scott Wike. Republican—Sixth Wisconsin, A. M. Kimball; Twentieth Ohio, R. C. Parsons, renominated. Reform—First Wisconsin, N. D. Frait.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Corrou.-Middltng upland, 17@17*c. Hr* Stock.—Beef Cattle—glo.7s@lß.7s. Hogs —Dressed, [email protected]. Sheep—Lire, *4-50® 5.50. Kouanm. —Fleer—Good to choice, $5.50 @6.86; white wheat extra, [email protected]. Wheat -No. 2 Chicago, $1.1601.18; lowa spring,. $1.17 @1.19; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.23<@1.25. Eye -Western and State, [email protected]. Barley-.,..® .... Corn —Mixed Western afloat, 96@97c. Oats—Western, 66@67c. Provisions. —Pork—New Mess, [email protected]. Lard—Cheese—lofc@l3Kc. Woon.—Common to extra, 45@66c. CHICAGO. M * \ Lm Stock.—Beeves—Choice, [email protected]; good, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; butchers’ stock, [email protected]; stock cattle, [email protected]. Hogs—Live, [email protected]. Sheep—Good to choice, $3.7504.50. Provisions. —Butter —Choice, 28@33c. Eggs— Fresh, 18@15c. Cheese—New York'Factory, 18H@Hc; Western Factory, 12K@18H«. PorkNew Mess, $22.75028.00. Lard—l4@l4Hc. - j Brsadstuffs. —Flour—White Winter Extra, [email protected]; spring extra, $4.75®5.30. WheatSpring, No. 2, 96@97c. Com—No. 2, 76 @7Bc. Oats—No. 2,47H@48Mc. Eye—No. 2, 81H@82c. Barley—No. 2, 96®97c. Wool.—Tub-washed, 45@55c.; fleece, washed, 40@48c.; fleece, unwaphed, 27@35c. . Lukbeb.—First clear, [email protected]; second clear, [email protected]; Common Boards, $10.50® 12.00* Fencing, *[email protected]; “A” Shingles, [email protected]; Lath, $2.00®2.25. CINCINNATI. Bhsadstuffs. -F1car—[email protected]. Wheat— Red, $1.12. Com—Bo@B3c. Bye—96c. Oats—4B® 53c. Barley—sl.o6®l.lo. Pbovisions.—Pork —[email protected]. Lard—l 4 @l4s£c. ST. LOUIS. Lrvx Stock. —Beeves —Fair to choice, $4.00® 6.00. Hogs—Live, $6.0007.50. Brradstuffs. —Flow, XX Fall, [email protected]. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall, [email protected]*. Cora—No. 2, 77@80c. OaU—No. 2, 50®50Hc. Eye—No. 2, 90®95c. Barley—sl.o7ol• 15. Provisions.—Pork—Mess, $24.00®21.10. Lard -14*@15M<1. * MILWAUKEE.

Brxadstuvm.—Flour—Spring XX, [email protected]. Wheat—Spring, No. 1, [email protected]; No. 2, 96® 9654 c. Com—No. 2, 74@75e. Oats—No. 2, 47® 4754 c. Bye—No. 1, 84@85c. Barley—No. 2, SI.OO @1.02. - DETROIT. Bbe ADBTTJWB .—Wheat Extra, [email protected]—79@Boc. Oats—So@sls4 c. TOLEDO. Breads Turns. —Wheat—Amber Mich., sl.lO @1.1054; No. 2 Red,[email protected]. Corn—Mixed, 82@8254c. Oats—s4@S6c. CLEVELAND. Bhza DBTUTTB .—Wheat —No. 1 Bed, sl.lo® 1.11; No. 2 Red, [email protected]. Cora-85@86c. Oats—s3@ssc. BUFFALO. Lira Stock. Beeves Live, $5.75®7.50. Sheep—Live, [email protected]. EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock.— Beeves Best, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]. Hogs—Yorkers, $6.50® 8.65; Philadelphia, [email protected]. Sheep—Best, «4:[email protected]; good, [email protected].

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

White jet is becoming fashionable in Paris. A paper containing many fine points— A paper of pins A tasteful villa proprietor of Lee, Mass., has imported a basaltic column from the Giant’s Causeway as an ornament for his lawn. A narrow escape from death under the administration of nitrous oxide gas is recorded in London as a warning against the American system of painless dentistry. Opium, belladonna fed arsenic are the Jaycyrite. luxuries among the ladies of Reading, Pa. It is unnecessary to add that suicide, blindness .and sudden death are not infrequent items in the local press, f At a recent sale in Berks County, Pa., a wagon was sold that had been standing long enough in one place to permit a walnut tree about five inches in diameter to grow up through the bed of the wagon. Lancaster, Da., boastfully records the building of a “ large shoe factory” within its limits, but its pride is abased by a Maryland critic who’ observes that of course there would be no market for small shoes there. The Rev. J. F. Dayan, of New York, has inaugurated an international campmeeting, to be held hereafter annually on one of the islands of the St. Lawrence River. One of the .Thousand Islands will probably be selected. A AfKMRF.Tt of the Committee on Public Instruction of the Fall River (Mass.) Common Council is credited with the composition of the following ordinance: “ That tho super in tinder of stseets is heir By stroised to Erected and maintain 2 street lites on John street.” Riches never showed a pair of wings measuring more from tip to tip than in the case of Coal Oil Johnny, the whilom young millionaire of the coal regions, wht>, after risihg from the humble position of ox-teamster to the wealth of a prince, has again subsided into agricultural pursuits, and is glad to plow all day to make a dollar or two. In Maine the curtailment of the lumber business is to be a pretty extensive thing. The principal lumber mills on the Kennebec and Penobscot are now shutting down and discharging their hands. It is reported that this is the result of an understanding among the heaviest operators for the purpose of increasing the price of lumber and reducing the wages of workmen. - Another cause assigned is the dullness of the lumber market.

Fighting in New Orleans.

There was desperate fighting in New Orleans on the 14th between armed bodies of citizens anil the Metropolitan forces. Several persons on both sides were killed or wonnded. The following is a summary of the account of the affair; as given by the Associated Press dispatches of that date: ' A mass meeting of citizens was held in the forenoon, in response to a call signed by fifty business men and firms of the city. In this call it wap /declared that for nearly two years the people had been.silent but indignant sufferers of/ outrage after outrage heaped upon them by an usurping at last evpn the right of. the peeple to keep and bear arms had been infringed, in violation of the Federal Constitution; that the citizens were therefore called upon to close their places of business and assemble together, and, “in tones loud enough to be heard throughout the length and breadth of the land, declare that you are of right, ought to be, and mean to be free.”

The called meeting assembled at eleven a. m., and a series of preambles and resolutions were adopted, declaring that at the election in November, 1872, John McEnery was elected Governor by nearly 10,000 majority, and D. P. Penn Lieutenby a majority of ; 15,000; that by fraud and violence Kellogg and his defeated associates had seized the Executive chair and perpetuated their official feign by other and continued irregular, fraudulent and violent acts, in the face of the report of a committee of the United States Senate that the existing State Government of Louisiana was an usurpation; that the acting Got* ernor had, under the -Registration act passed for the purpose the popular will, and with a viewbf controlling the result of the approaching elections, refused registration to bon)y fide citizens, who were denied redress before the courts; *ha‘ false and infamous misrepresentath’ 1 ' of the feelings andmotives of the people he had received the promise of Federal aid; that the whites of Louisiana had no desire to deprive the colored people of any rights to which they are entitled; that W. P. Kellogg is a mere usurper, and his government is arbitrary, unjust and oppressive, and could only be -maintained through interference; that Kellogg’s immediate abdication of office be demanded, and a committee of five should be appointed to wait upon him with the resolutions and demand an immediate answer.

The committee called at the Executive office at noon, and, the Governor not being present, were received by Brig.Gen. Dibble, who conveyed the fact of the committee’s call to Gov. Kellogg and made reply in writing that the Governor had directed him to say that he declined to receive any communication from the committee because he had definite and accurate information that there were assembled in different parts of the city several large bodies of armed men, who were met at the call which convened the mass meeting represented by the committee ; that he regarded this state of affairs as a menace; but that should the people assemOltf peaceably, without menace, he would deem it one of his highest duties to receive any communication from them, and entertain any petition addressed to the Government. The committee, responded through one of their number that there were no armed rioters, that they came on a mission of peaee, and that they believed, had the Governor acceded to the proposition to abdicate, it \tould have pacified the people and prevented violence and bloodshed. The committee reported the result of their interview to the mass meeting, and the people were then advised to go home, get their arms and ammunition and return to assist the White League, who were then under arms, to execute plans that would be arranged for them. The people then quietly dispersed. Afterward quite a large number formed in procession and marched up Camp street. A proclamation was then issued, signed by D. B. Penn, as LieutenantGovernor and acting Governor in the absehce of Mr. McEnery, reciting the alleged outrages to which the citizens had been subjected for two years, and calling upon the militia of the State, embracing all persons between the ages of eighteen and forty years, without regard to color or previous condition, to arm and assemble under their respective officers for the purpose of driving the alleged usurpers from power. Gen. Frederick N. Ogden was designated Provisional General of the militia, and an address was issued to the colored people by Penn, as acting Governor, declaring that no harm was intended them, their property or their rights. By three p. m. armed men were stationed at the intersection of all streets on the south side of Canal street, from the river to Claiborne street. About four p. m. a body of Metropolitans, about 500 strong, with cavalry and artillery, appeared at the head of Canal street, and took a position. Gen. Longstreet commanding, accompanied by an orderly, then rode up and down Canal street, ordering the armed citizens’to disperse. Fighting subsequently ensued, and seven Metropolitans were killed and over thirty wounded. The citizens’ loss was six killed and nine wounded, - some seriously. . - . > - The citizens captured the City Hall and erected barricades on several of the streets. Bloody work was anticipated at night, but a dispatch dated at midnight reported all quiet. The State authorities seemed to have

great confidenoe?]te'their ability to deal with what they termed an armed mob. New Orleans dispatches of the 15th say that during the latter part of the preceding night the White Leaguers remained intrenched within their camps, with their pickets guarding every approach to the central of the city. Gpja. Ogden, of the Leaguers, conferred with the commander of the United States troops, to insure himself of the non-interference of the troops in case they proceeded to take the State House and other State buildings. That gentleman assured him that the troops were there simjply to protect United States property and that he should do no more. At one o’clock on the y mornmg of tie 15th Gen. Longstreet, commanding the Metropolitans, threw out his pickets as far as Canal ajceet. When this became known a squad of Leaguers, advanced and captured about half of them. The rest threw down their arms and fed. Nothing ' further transpired until eight o’clock, when the 300 Metropolitans occupying the State House marched out, sent word to the commander of the White League that the State House was voluntarily surrendered, and then proceeded to Gen. Longstreet’s headquarters. Gen. Ogden then took possession and peaceably installed Acting-Gov. Penn other Fusion officers in the possession of the State offices. He r then marched a company to the Jackson Square station, and before the demand war. aade the Metropolitans marched out to Ue number of 400 and, surrendering, were at once paroled. At this time Kellogg and his entire administration were in the Custom-House, under bayonet protection.

TheSe events all culminated before eleven o’clock a. m. A little after that hour Gen. Ogden issued a proclamation ordering the troops"to disperse to their homes and desiring the people to resume their avocation.,, as the troubles were ended and a continuation of peace was assured. In response to the proclamation the White League and other citizens bearing arms disbanded and returned to their homes. Previously, about one o’clcH; p. m., they paraded on Canal street, about 2,500 strong, with the guns, flags and other trophies captured the day before. At twenty minutes after one o’clock the President’s proclamation came to hand, commanding all turbulent and disorderly persons to disperse and submit to the laws of the constituted authorities. The reception of this intelligence was marked in many instances by violent and bitter expressions of feeling, extending even to declarations that the Kellogg Government should not be restored, and that if necessary the people would fight the General Government itself in maintaining the Fusion administration.

In the afternoon Acting-Gov. Penn issued a proclamation convening an extra session of the Legislature to meet on the 21st; a proclamation commanding and Enjoining all officers* throughout the State to at once assume the duties and take possession of the offices to which they had been heretofore legally elected or appointed ; and also a further proclamation calling upon the people of Louisiana to assemble in their respective churches on the 16th for the purpose of “ returning to Heaven thanksgiving and praise for the overthrow of the usurping Government and the restoration of the State into the hands of the people.” The Mayor of the city also issued his proclamation, advising moderation, and recommending to the citizens of New Orleans that they “ seek no revenge for past injuries, but leave your fallen enemies to the tortures of their own consciences and to the lasting in-. famy which their acts have won for them.” Immediately upon the receipt of the President’s proclamation the bank and insurance Presidents held a meeting and forwarded a dispatch to the President, calling upon him to recognize and guarantee the Government of McEnery and Penn. A riot occurred in the Ninth Ward about midnight, but it was quickly subdued, and at last accounts the entire city was tranquil. On the evening of the 14th ActingGov. Penn sent to the President a dispatch announcing the deposition of the Kellogg Government; declaring that the party he represented were sincerely loyal to the United States, and warred only against usurpers, plunderers and the enemies of the people, and Risking that he would withhold any aid or \protection from the enemies of republican rights and of the peace and liberties/of the people. No answer was made jio this dispatch. A rumor prevailed after midnight that Kellogg and his entire administration were disposed to abdicate provided they could be assured of safe conduct from the State, but this was discredited. The total number killed in the'fight of the 14th foots up twenty-six Metropolitans and nine White Leaguers. Considerably over fifty were wounded, among the latter Gen. Badger, commanding the Metropolitans, who lost an arm and a leg. Stagnation is once more the order of the day in the coal regions. Where the production has usually been fifteen thousand tons weekly there are now scarcely two thousand mined. Thirty five thousand miners are reported out of employment. This idleness extends oyer the Lackawanna and Wyoming districts as well as in the Carbondale, Archbald, Jerayn, Olyphant and Providence regions.

NUMBER 1.

The South—--The President’s Action.

The rebels of Louisiana court destruction. They have precipitated themselves into the very jaws of death; for they have violated the Constitution of their State, overturned the law, tod are now brought face tq face with Federal power. With that audacity peculiar to ignorance and passion, Lieut.-Gov. (t) Penn yesterday telegraphed the President declaring sincere loyalty and respect for the United States Government and its officers ! With the lying pretense that he is “supported by the great body, of the intelligent and honest people of the State,” he denounced as a “usurper” the Executive of Louisiana, repeatedly recognized as such by the President- himself. With the hand covered* with the blood of slaughtered citizens he penned the declaration of his “ ability to maintain peace and protect life, liberty, and the equal rights of all classes of citizens.” The. effrontery of" the new rebellion is equal to that of the old. In lggl the South prayed, to be “let alone.” The oligarchists merely desired to destroy the Government, and were astonished that President Lincoln did not follow in the footsteps of James Buchanan and let the Government, which he had sworn to administer, go to pieces 1 Mr. Penn seizes the government of a State by force of arms*; strewing dead and wounded on his pathway to power, and coolly requests the President “to withhold any aid or protection from our [his] enemies tod the enemies of republican rights and of the peace and liberties of the people !” Having violated the peace, having stricken down liberty,,- ..having played the role of a mobocrat until the streets of New Orleans ran with blood, this graceless tnai tor-appeals to the President to be let alone! But this newest despot, this assassin of the liberties of a people, is already answered. From his unreasoning assurance that the President would permit the regularly-consti tuted Government of a State to be de-

stroyed by a band of murderers he has' been rudely awakened. In response to his demand for recognition he has the President’s proclamation invoking the aid and co-operation of all good citizens of Louisiana to uphold the law and preserve the public peace. This proclamation is backed by all the power of the Federal Government, and the Government is the people. It is Mr. Penn who has overthrown the law and broken the public peaeerAnd the Presidential proclamation is notide to all the world that he is a malefactor, to be pursued and taken by Federal troops and punished by Federal courts. He holds the State House and the Court House, and with the desperate men whose comrades of the White Leagu s have desolated Northern Louisiana overawes the people of New Orleans. But he is a usurper, a murderer, and, consequently, an outlaw. He has pitted his against the army and navy of the United States, and all those who stand by him assail the supremacy of law, and must abide the consequences. The miserable * dense of loyalty to the Federal authority will not avail the Louisiana rebels. Loyalty to the Federal authority involves loyalty to the State authority, and it is the latter which has been stricken down by Penn and his rebel crew.

An astonishing feature of the situation is the fact that the leading merchants of New Orleans are as mad as their desperate leaders. The Colton Exchange closed its doors yesterday at one o’clock “as a mark of sympathy with the movement to establish the legitimate government of Louisiana!” - And the Picayune declares that “ there is no one who dares to brave the indignation of a great people roused at last .” But to all these jubilations of the conspirators and their wretched dupes comes the response of the President, solemnly ordering a restoration of the lawful authorities of the State; and, in addition, the remark by the Executive that the people of Louisiana had misjudged if they thought that a resort to violence on their part would pass by unheeded by the Government.” So also have the insurgents of Louisiana “misjudged” if they think a new rebellion will be suffered to gain a foothold for further operations by carefully avoiding outrages upon Federal property and professing loyalty to Federal authority. For the President also says: “ Prompt measures will suppress further disturbances, and a similar course would have saved the country from the late rebellion. ” The President evidently comprehends the gravity of the situation, and fully realizes the import of the Louisiana movement; hence he likens it to the rebellion of 1861. There is ' her evidence of alarm on the part o ' ’ President, in the fact that he suppli anted his formal proclamation by military orders, written by his own hand, addressed to the commander at New Orleans, directing him to preserve life an<t,protect the peace to the best of his ability. The proclamation is a recognition or Gov. Kellogg as the legal Governor of Louisiana; the military orders to the commander of United States forces at New Orleans constitute a military occupation of the city by the Federal Government. The next step will be an order dispersing the rioters who now hold the State House, and the next the turning of Federal cannon on the enemy equally of the State Government of Louisiana and of the Government of the United States. To this complexion it must come, and that speedily. There is no retreat, and if blood must flow, let it flow from the veins of the rebels who a second time raise their hand against the sovereign authority of the people, as expressed in the form of State and Federal Governments. If necessary, not only Louisiana, but every late rebel State, must be again placed under military control, and so held until the treason of their people is burned and purged away.— Chicago In-ter-Ocean, Sept. 16.

The White Man’s Party.

The Democrats of Alabama in their recent State Convention adopted the following resolution: Resolved, That the radical and dominant faction of the Republican party in this State persistently, by false ana fraudulent representations, have inflamed the passions and prejudices of the negroes, as a race, against the white people, and have thereby made it necessary for the white people to unite and act together in selfdefense and for the preservation of white etHli* zation. In answer to this resolution the Republicans of the same State, in their convention subsequently held, having declared themselves in favor of ** the.eivil and political equality of all men, without distinction of race or color,” proceed to say: We have not made a race issue in the past,

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neither do we make or tender such «issue. What we demand for one man we demand for all, without distinction of race or color: and we point with pride and confldenee te every line or our political record In proof of tawdeclaration and we denounce the Mwmwijte we ante made It n ecesaary HF I whole peeple to eelte and act Together ter seu defense am wme preservation or white clvtliaaUoe ee en fer. and an emanation of that seMMt spirit wht<e 1 w me pes* demanded everything IW one-MMO #'*■ was eawilling to concede anything lothest -r. The population of Aloha? . in 1870 numbered 521,384 white ponoM tod 475,510 colored persona. The two races then were and still are nearly equal in numbers; and, hence, both being citizens equally entitled to vote, their political strength is about equal, The colored people of that State, as in the other Southern States, and, indeed, throughout the Union, have had the sagacity to see - that the Democratic party, both North and South, has held and still holds the attitude oi either open hostility dr heartless indifference to their interests and rights, and that the Republicto party in both sections has proved itself the party of equal civil and political rights, without distinction of “ race, color, or previous condition of sfervitude.” The perception es these two opposing facts abundantly explains why the colored people havte so universally allied themselves with the Republican party. They whuld be fools to have done otherwise. Democracy has never done anything for them. It has never sought their elevation. It opposed the constitutional amendments, and has opposed pi legfcffistionfor their enforcement. It has never gone beyond a reluctant acceptance of the emancipation and enfranchisement of the colored man as an, unwelcome necessity. Its principles an# Temped towardwthe negro give tne ife to*its party name. The Ku4£}ux KltosW:ere,«iade up of Democrats; and the “ White Leaguers” that are now taking their place and seeking their ends are also Democrat®. The whole* history of Democracy in respeut to the negro for the last thirty years is fitly represented by calling it the White Man’s party. Politically considered, it is the party of fixed antipathy to the Qqlored race; and, if ever a war of races shall occur, De-

mocracy will be its phief cause. Thfe Alabama Democrats, in their programme of “ white civilization,” have not originated a new idea in the history of Democracy, but simply brought to th* front what has long been thoroughly “ dyed in the wool.” They hope by an appeal to the prejudices of the white men to carry the election in that State this fall, and thus establish thfe ascendency of our “ glorious Caucasian civilization.” For this purpose they throw down the gauntlet of the race issue and seek to draw the line between races. The Republicans, on the other hand, true to the instincts and, history of the party, present the programme of American civilization as defined by the Constitution of the United States and founded on the broad doctrine of equal rights, without any distinction of race. They reject the issue of race against ra< What they demand for one man they equally demand for all men. They propose that both races, in respect to civil and political rights, shall stand on the same footing. Their theory is one of harmony between the races, witl jut any proscription of either. We have hoped and still hope that the issue of races will never in this country develop itself into an active struggle; There is no necessity for it, and it can accomplish nothing but evil to both races. Both are sufficiently numerous to perpetuate their own existence, and exist they will and myst under one common political system. The colored people at the Soutn since their enfranchisement have undoubtedly made some grave mistakes. The wonder is that they have not made more. Yet there is no evidence of any disposition on their part to force the race issue. What they ask and what they ought to have is the full enjoyment of their rights as citizens, and because the Republican party is pledged to this doctrine they are themselves Republicans. Let Democracy squarely and honestly take the same ground and then prove its faith by its works; let it cease to be the white man’s party; and then and not till then will it cease to be justly obnoxious to the colored people. Till then they must vote against it or put in serious jeopardy their own interests. Nothing, moreover, is clearer than that the Republican party will not have comEleted its mission so long as Democracy olds to this white man’s theory. It fought the theory before the war, fought it during the war, and has been fighting it ever since; and it must continue the fight until the theory is absolutely dead and buried. There has been no time since the war in which D e *B° crac y could be safely trusted with the rights of colored men. That time has not yet come. The issues of the past are by no means dead and will not be until Democracy shall be dead or thoroughly reformed on the great question of human rights, including those of the colored people. Were the General Government in its hands Ku-Kluxism in some form would speedily be revived at the South* The constitutional amendments and the laws enforcing them rest to-day just where they have always rested—upon; the ascendency of the Republican party. The white man’s party, if in power, would repeal the latter and reduce the former for the most part to a dead letter. It wants a still longer quarantine to rid it of the old virus of negro antipathy — N. T. Independent.

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