Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1880 — FAREWELL [ARTICLE]

FAREWELL

A great majority of the readers, | of Um-Rrevrucak wßi doubtless [ > Jn« surprised to learn that the underI* signed bare disposed of *1) their rkrht, title and interest in the Rens- ’ • , i . . _ scjjier Hepi:bi.U'ax |>rmttng office, ' anlltbat this i£ the last issne that '■» £ \ will lie made updeF its prasent management. A Uncover eight months ago we settled ihifUnsselaer with the full expectation- of making this oar permanent home, bat eircam* stances which we have been unable to control, have made this change necessary, f We will be succeeded by Messrs. P. S. Corkins, of Fonder, Ind , and Prof. B. F. Jqfinsoo, of Oxford, Ind. ' Both are genttemen of the highest order, and folly capable of conducting a country journal in a manner acceptable to all readers and to ibe greatest good of the town and county. We entertain the best feeling toward the Rensselaer and Jasper county, and we regret to part with the many good people we have met here and the prosperous business we have enjoyed. Hoping each and every reader and patron of the Refcblicax will * extend a cordial welcome to our worthy successors, and give them a cheerful support, we lay down our pen &dq retire. <

M. B ITTERS & SON.

The Democratic nominees don’t “paialyxe." Hancock was a fighting general during the war while Landers was a Matt mil secessionist. The i«fcne of the present presi dential campaign is now made np. It is brains and statesmanship versos military discipline and fine clothes. ’ If General Ilanccck could add the number of Democrats he Willed daring the war to the votes he will receive this fall, probably he would be elected. The Democrats eight and twelve years ago bitterly opposed Grant because he is a military man. Now they are eating their crow in the way of a peacock General. , Heretofore the Democrats have been very much opposed to patting military bigots into the presidential chair, but since the nomination of Hancock that pexty has experienced a very sudden conversion. Frank Landers, the soft money blatherskite and Democratic nominee for Governor of Indiana, as a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle, sold Indiana Into secession but was unable to deliver the good*. • , . . The Democrats in Cass, Pulaski and Fulton conntics say Skinner is too large a Greenback pill for them to swallow, and positively refuse to try the experiment, while those in Republican counties are fond of sngar-eoated crow, and purpose giving him a willing support. No person acquainted with Gen. Hancock, the Democratic nominee for president williSdeny that he wears a corset, dresses exquisitely and "slings on lots of style." He is also a special charmer among the ladies, skips about like a butterfly and is the hero 'of Washington so eiety, especially at the saucy dress Walls. The Democratic party takes-siore stock in the wardrobe of a candidate than his executive ability. Two years ago it elected Jimmy Williams governor of Indiana on the strength of his blue jeans breeches; now an effort is being made to make Hancock President of the United States because be wears a corset. J. W. Doothit, in bia speech at the court bouse, Saturday evening, speaking' of the public opinion of Haacock> the Democratic nominee for Ptemdietit, said he vai only lorry that the Rknssklaeußepublican

had not had an opportunity to express its views of tbn fighting General. Hers they are, Bro. Doutbit: GenerarWindfield Scott Hancock, who was ncmini MM by the National j Democratic convention, at 'Cincinnati* last week, fee Presidentof the United States, is an egotistical individual with ntnre hair than brains. He obtained a military education at the expense of the Government and is n good comm and in g officer, bat beyond this he knows bat little of governmental affairs. He is not an orator, n statesman or politician. He is a good-looking, dandyfied in dividnal who prides himself on his : good clothes, long spurs ami cocked I bat. Daring a review of the troops | or on dress-parade he wears a cor- ! set, high buttoned gloves, and sits lon his horse as straight as a yard I stick, and is vanity personified. He > is a peacock general in every sense 1 of the term, and (in his mind) “a | bigger man than old Grant.” Oc i copying tbe position of Major General in the regular army it is almost impossible for him to behold a subordinate officer, while a private soldier does not come within range of his vision. At a commanding officer ho is a model of neatness and can march an army “np tbe hill and down again” in good style, but he la| no more fitted'to oernpy the presidential%Kair thsn. a Now York Broadway dandy. »fu - ■ ■ *• ——4 j : if ji From a Demtcratic standpoint there is probably more hope to be derived from the nomination of Gen. Hancock than would have come from that of Tildcn. Wo can afford to admit that in bis sphere, so long as he was given no important ’command during the war, General Hancock was an obedient, patriotic officer, doing what he could to suppress the rebeli who now seek to make a tool of him to seise by the ballot the government they could not destroy by the sword Since the war lie has ornamented, as becomes the piping times of peace, the stations of military commafid to which he has been appointed. He has served as a respectable figure head iu various capacities, : but his virtues and vices both are of a character that prevent the proof of his having any of the positive qualities that .a chief magistrate cannot afford to be without. Ills nomination affords no occasion of any alarm to Republicans. For a few days the enthusiasm of a few Democrats will reverse the history of Uie war and tell' us about the Republican rebellion, how the brave Hancock ard the Democrats put it down. But matters will settle themselves iu a week or more and the causes appear why Hancock cannot be elected. He cannot be elected because this presidential battle is pitched on the issue of whether or uot the confederates are j to rnle this nation and levy the taxes, the bulk of which the north must pay. This is not a fight between meu,but between the piincipies and influences under which this nation is to exist. Enough slates cannot be procured to east tbeir electoral votes in favor of southern domination to elect Hancock, because bis election, despite the best intentions on his part, can only result in es--1 tablishing the sway of the ex-rebels, without whose consent he could not be elected, if that evmt .were possible. This is the general principle under the operation of which Hancock cannot be elected. The special reasons why he should not be elected, will be elaborated during the campaign.

Ii took Wm. Lloyd Garrison forty years to work up the sentiment that finally overthrew Afrisau slavery in this country. It is beginning to be s subject of serious speculation whether nearly as long n period will not be cousumed in working the north up to the point of an efficient protest against the infamy of the present Georgia chain gang oonvict system. Humanity cries aloud against the horrid cruelties to black men practiced under the forms of law in that state. The facts were fully set before llie people* through the press last summer, but the system has not been improved one bit, and the unmarked graves of the starved and murdered convicts are strewn about tbs stockades and pens where the contractors who employ the gangs have herded these human beings with black skins. It Is needless to recount the details of torture, brutality and starvation attending the letting of the convict labor of Geoegia to contractors. The country has already been appalled that «o little of kind feeling could be found fifteen years after the fall of human slavery in the United States, in the breasts of any of her citizens, as to permit them.to uphold a system of barbarity, deliberately conceived and persistent-ly-adhered to in the faee of exposure, before which the terrors of old Moorish dungeons, Spanish inquisitions or any of the standard historical cruelties must pale in their power of making the tearful qnake. It is saffleient to announce that this chain-gang convict «istem ia rua in all Um horrorsof which it is capable; that the system under which its atrocities are permitted makes it no lots to the stale to hate the convict die, while it is to the intereet of the

out of himTiti nil haste, to make room for~theYreeh j judges, order whose management able bodied negroes are *enteneed to chain-gangs for life offenses, are presumably in a cApiraey to keep tbe convict gang lull. The outrage and iniquity are unqualified. Who win be the apostle of equal righto and fair |day to nil citixeus to agitate this subject and bring about the suppression of this ev*l? Has the blood of the old abolitionists run cold in the veins of their sons and daughters that there is no one to sound the charge and lead the sentiment of the north to the death of this bargsrity? Titers will edme the hour and the man for this issne if the state of Georgia does not suppress it. But the delay should be avoided by immediate agitation. The statc'government responsible for the chaingang abases in Georgia is Democratic, bat a good many Democrats at the north could be enlisted in opposition to it.