Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. W. E. MAHRHAT.Tj, - - PuBUBBS*.

SANbwicH Islanders formerly had the soundest teeth of any people on the glbbe; but their teeth have now begun to decay rapidly—an effect, it appears, of using large quantities of salt A Japanese dancing-master announces in the Yeddo papers a solemn festival in commemoration of the thousandth anniversary of the death of his ancestor, who was the first of the family to take up the profession. In an interview at New York the stenographer of the late South American commission says: “Chili is the vainest country I ever got into. The Chilians think they could whip the United States without any difficulty.” Bishop Tuttlf, of the Episcopal diocese of Utah, tells this joke on himself: “A Mormon Bishop was in former years the county recorder of Salt Lake County. I went to have a deed recorded. When I asked, ‘How much is the charge?’he answered: ‘Oh, nothing,’ adding, as he put his hand familiarly on’ my shoulder: ‘We Bishops must favor each other.’ ”

Victor Hugo is reported to have once said: “At night when Ido not sleep, and any idea comes into my brain, I formulate it at once, and I write it—sometimes without a light—in a little note-bobk that I keep always within reach. The little note-books contain what I call my chips. I have already a certain number of them quite filled. They will be found when lam gone.’ 1 The Russian Censor has defined the meaning of history in Russia. An author, in describing the tent of one of the Grand-Dukes, stated that among its ornaments “was the portrait of a certain actress.” The Censor altered the phrase to ’‘a large map of the theater of war.” The novelist objected that his description was “historical,” where* upon the censorship replied that “in Russia nothing is historical except what appears in the official journals.”

Rev. Edward Everett Hale believes in good living, and considerable of it, for the literary man. He works from thirty to sixty minutes before breakfast on a cup of weak coffee and a soda biscuit. He has five meals after that. A hearty breakfast is one, an extended lunch is another, dinner at halfpast 2is the third, tea at 6 or 7 the fourth, and supper just before bedtime the fifth. “Never go to bed in any danger of being hungry,” is one of his mottoes. “People are kept awake by hunger quite as much as by a bad conscience.”

In the Revised Bible, published at Oxford, only three printers’ errors have yet been discovered in all the editions. In the pearl IGmo. edition there is an error in Ezekiel, xvi i. 26, -where an “e” is left out of righteous, and the word is printed “richtous.” In the parallel Bvo. edition there are two mistakes. In Psalms, vii. 13, “shatfs” appears instead of “shafts,” and in Amos, v. 24, in the margin “overflowing” should be “everflowing.” The usual guinea will be paid to any person discovering a printer’s error in the book and pointing it out to the Controller of the Press before any other discoverer.

The Rev. Dr. Burchard wanders around Saratoga like a ghost. The old gentleman, although he looks very calm end serene, as if he had the clearest of clean conscience, yet cannot be very comfortable. He is one of the most notorious men now living. Wherever he goes he is followed by the wink and snicker of some one who regards Burchard’s existence as a huge joke. “There he goes!” “That’s the man!” “That is the man who smashed Blaine!” “That is Grover Cleveland’s best friend 1” are the constant exclamations uttered in his hearing. He looks very patient under all this fire, but he must be very much annoyed.

According to a correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, an old hotel proprietor says no greater humbug exists in hotel-keeping than the “bridal chamber” business, and so far as he is concerned he proposes to aboljsh all such arrangements for the future. He says bridal couples will take just what you give them, and will submit to most anything without a murmur. They are too much occupied with themselves to take any note of their surroundings. It is the people, he says, who have been married long enough to get over the honeymoon, and in the intervals of fussing with themselves fuss with every one around, who give the hotelkeepers the trouble.

A Washington correspondent says of Gen. Lew Wallace: He is an agreeable mah, quite as literary in his appearance as military. He- wears an English suit of mixed goods, has good broad shoulders, and would appear to be a man of about 50. He told me that he had two more novels in an advanced state, one of them being a tale of Constantinople at the time of its capture by the Turks, and the other, if I remember, is an American book of domestic life among us. His tale of Ben Hur Paid him $3,200 last year in roy-

alties. Referring to general compensation of literature, Gen. Wallacf remarked :, “I think that a considerable publishing-hqpse has stated' that when an author gets fSOO royalties on a novel he was considered to have written a successful book.”

The story which comes from Paris, that Bismarck has his eye on Cuba, with the intention of eventually acquiring that island for Germany, is the drollest political romance which has come under water during the year. Bismarck's career has not been such as to indicate that he could have a dream so idiotic. Though Spain should offer Cuba to him as a gift, the chances would be greater of a full head of hair again on the Grennan Chancellor than of a perfection of his nation’s title to the island. This nation at present is nbt out of real estate; it is in no mood for acquisition ; but, somehow, it doesn’t seem to want any foreign power for a neighbor in addition to those it has already. It isn’t sociable nor affable. When Cuba passes from the hands of Spain it will be into the hands of the United States.

The drawing powers of the Sunday campmeeting were utilized for a nefarious purpose by an enterprising but wicked man at Philadelphia recnetly. An announcement in the Sunday morning papers that a colored campmeeting would be opened at a certain grove that day brought three or four hundred white excursionists, on the first boat, to “see the fun.” The wicked man was there, and explained that the meeting had been postponed indefinitely. He had with him, however, a large quantity of beer and other spirituous refreshments, and these the crowd accepted—at the usual prices—as a substitute for the “fun” they had expected to have. They were not unhappy when they went home, and, in spite of one disappointment, may go hunting for the campmeeting again.

Any one who has ever visited Kingston, Canada, will recall the round towers which form part of its extensive fortifications.' These, it is supposed, were copied from the similar structures on the coast of Ireland, which are about to be demolished. The Irish towers were built at the time when Lord Cornwallis was Viceroy of Ireland, at the suggestion of the Duke of Richmond, who had heard that the town of Martello, in Corsica, had by means of similar defenses successfully, resisted the attack of a fleet. This same Duke of Richmond afterward became Governor General of Canada, and it was during his career there that these Martello towers were built for Kingstonthen the capital of the united province of Upper and Lower Canada. His death occurred in 1819, from hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a fox.

Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, is declared by a correspondent to have become simply tub-like in figure. The wart on her nose, says the ruthless chronicler, is more prominent than ever, and altogether the sovereign to whom the Pope once sent the golden rose looks sadly like the Belle Circassiene exhibited at the Neuilly’T’air. If she would only hide her deformity—if she would wear high dresses and long sleeves, walk decently and keep her roving eyes (they are much inflamed, I notice) in check a little—one might be blind to her obesity; but she persists in thrusting her fat upon you. Sho wears low dresses, as though she wore a girl of 20, and her eye, when it lights on a favorite of the hour, has an awful resemblance to that of an ogre. She fairly devours the unfortunate; she stares him out of countenance. In vain he may affect to be a free man.

The summary of the agricultural returns of Great Britain for 1885 has been issued by the Agricultural Department ok the Privy Council. The returns were collected June 5, in 1883, and June 4, in 1884 and 1885. The acreage under wheat this year is 2,478,318 acres, a decrease of 198,720 acres, or 7.4 per cent as compared with last year, and a decrease of 134,844, or 5.2 per cent, compared with 1883, In barley and oats there are increases of 4 and 0.9 per cent., respectively, compared with last year. Potatoes show a decrease of 2.9 per cent, and hops an increase of 3 per cent. The returns of live stock show that the number of cattle was 6,597,854, an increase of 328,713, or 5.2 per cent on 1884. The in J crease in 1883 is 10.7 per cent. In sheep and lambs the increases are 0.9 per cent and 3.2 per cent, respectively, as compared with last year, the number being 16,537,607 sheep and 9,997,028 lambs. In pigs, however, there is a decrease of 7 per cent, their number being 2,403,380. There was a decrease of 8j per cent, in 1884 on 1883. The returns, therefore, show that land is still being taken from wheat cultivation an 4 turrfed into pasture.

Contrary to the Regulations.

“Yesterday you were ten minutes late at roll call. What explanation have you to make,” said a New York police captain to one of his men. “I was accompanying a young lady home, and she lives a long distance from here, and we are engaged,” replied the cop. “That sort of thing will never da Discipline must be preserved. Hereafter when you fall in Jove, see that it is with some female who lives in the immediate vicinity of the station house.” Texas Siftings. "

INDIANA’S GREATEST

General Review of the Township Bond Swindle, So Far as the Facts Have Been Developed. The Amount of Fraudulent Warrants in Sight Aggregates Between $600,000 and $700,000. [Vincennes Cor. Indianapolis Journal.] The statement of an Indianapolis correspondent that the swindle has been exaggerated is not the fact in the case, as every merchant, banker, or broker who has been interviewed on the subject places the figures high above any estimate yet given in any of the newspapers, and many of them who know refuse to talk on the subject. There are certain banks which could be easily named that have large blocks of these bonds which they have purchased, but it would be folly to name the institutions in the public prints, as it would be instantaneous financial death to them. Such statements, though true and easily proved, would create a “run” on the banks holding the bonds, and unless in the best financial condition would ruin them and close their doors.

A certain capitalist told your correspondent that he had lost heavily, and that he was greatly crippled. “If you could have only known,” said he, with a long and weary sigh, “that I had invested in the bonds, and if you could pave only come to me and told of this fraud I would have felt like giving you $5,000 in cash! Yes, $5,000 in cash, I repeat, and you would have saved me many and many a hardearned dollar, even though I gave you my check for that amount. It is a terrible fraud, and I do not wonder at the excitement of the people and the interest they take in it. ” There have been some scathing denunciations of the President of the North Vernon Bank in some of the papers. Of course President Cook deserves rebuke, but the sensational reports that North Vernon and Jenning County are ruined are absurd. “If a small failure, involving less than $50,000,” said a North Vernon merchant, “can ruin us, we ought to shut up shop. Of course many of the depositors feel hard, but they will not lose all, and as citizens we ought to make the best of it. ” “Who is it that is going to shoot Mr. Cook on sight?” “That’s all bosh,” answered the merchant,’ “and no one contemplates such a thing. I expect a great many feel embittered toward Cook, but I cannot see how he could have done anything else than close up. As far as his speculations in the bonds were concerned, he did no more than many other bankers. I believe the talk that North Vernon is ruined and is Wild with excitement, as generally reported and published, will do us ten times more injury than two such failures as Mr. Cook’s. I don’t believe in kicking a man when he is down, and Cook is down now, sure enough. He was not a rich man, always lived in moderate style, and was as common as the most of us. In fact, we all liked him. If he is as unmitigated a scoundrel and schemer as has been printed by the Enquirer and Sentinel at Indianapolis, he is worse than Pollard.”

“Mr. Cook was very popular,” said Mr. P. McGannon, the assignee; “the people here had every confidence in him. As far as lam concerned, if Mr. Cook went into the banking busiijfißS to-morrow, I would help him all I ccrtild. ’’ Mr. McGannon is a quiet, sensible gentleman, full of business, and owner of the large roller-process flouring mills of the place. The Seymour News charges Cook. with having “gone East, after learning the school orders were fraudulent, and bought largely for a mere song. He then brought them to North Vernon, failed, and listed them as assets, and is posing for sympathy, He has victimized the poor and protected the rich, and the wrath that has burst upon him knows no bounds. The Harrison, Ohio, bank, with which he was also connected, has been compelled to suspend, on account of his working against his friends in that institution to make money for himself.” Another report makes out that Cook swindled his widowed sister. President Cook is considerably vexed over these reports, and states there is not a word of truth in any of them. “I did not sell any of those bonds to any one unable to buy them; or, that is to say, to those who had but little money, because most of them run too long for such investors. As for my widowed sister, I have none, and the statement is absurd and infamously false. We had nearly SBO,OOO on deposit at one timri'. We tried to stand the storm, but the past few weeks a run was made on the institution, and I found that I was gone. Of course, as soon as I learned that most of the bonds I had invested in were worthless, I knew at once that I was ruined. It is not the rush of depositors to draw out their deposits that break up a bank, generally speaking, but the gradual sinking down to simply nothing does it. After the pell-mell rush cf many depositors who draw out their money is Oyer, the sinking and deadening effect comes on, and like a dying man, a broken bank catches at 'every breath as a last hope until all is gone. The latter days you don't see many around; only three or four men are seen in the institution, probably, but every one of them brings despair to the banker's heart, not hope, for they all want money, and do not bring in any. In this gradually sinking way the life of the Institution is sapped up, ana its last hour of financial life soon comes. That is the way It was with us. When our losses in the bonds became known, I felt that ruin was inevitable, and there was no way to recover.” Pollard was Cook’s Nemesis, and he succeeded in effectually winding him up. Among the principal depositors are the following: Amos Thomas, County Clerk.... 0 $6,300 A J, J ohnson, conductor. 7,000 Dr. Cope ...... 1,000 John Cox, Treasurer ....... 1,750 Thomas Haven 5,.,......, ... 1,200 Agricultural Society. 900 Robert Levitt ; too BOv, Orulsant... ■■ ■■ 600 Eldo Hicks. too J. O. Cope 1,200 A Haley 350 W. H. Cook 600 John Forsythe 200 Covert's heirs.... 875 James Hutchins 250 Jacob Feeble too Besides the above there were many small deposits, from $l5O down. The assets are: Notes,%sttmated $12,000 Notes on O. B. Scoville. 6,000 Balance with three banks tst Exchange. . 696 Property........ ■. 15.000 Ca5h.,..., ....... 2,000 Total.,. $36,150 Besides the above, there are bonds held by the above banks as follows: George W, Foreman, Trustee. $800; John B. Clawson, Trustee, $2,305.50; John Grimsley, $3,902; W. B. Hodman, $2,421; Henry A. Thorpe, $3,498.40; Charles H. Brown, $7,593; Ernst Kite, $3,500; Elisha Saville, $300; George D. Bowe, $728; John Clark, I $438.65; John Benton, $315; Hobart M. Benton, $1,394; M. T. Kennedy. $284;

John Gladden, $700; Albert Roll, $100; total, $28,278.15 The Seymour News tells of a peculiar transaction as follow's: “The Trustee of a Jennings County township lost $350 in the bank. He will pay it out of his own pocket There is some school furniture addressed to him, which he refused. A young man called on him to sell him some turaiture but the refused to buy. He signified ms willingness, however, to patronize the chap when needing furniture; whereupon, to ‘make it business like,’ the agent requested the Trustee to sign three blank orders, the ampunts in same to be filled as goods were wanted. The Trustee did so. The orders are on the market now,' and the Trustee will have to pay the loss out of his own pocket. ” ‘APollard used to get done up in Vincennes on poker, ” said a Vincennes sport, ‘•and he came over often. He dropped a good deal of money with us, but he never seemed to mind it, and always had plenty with him." Pollard went over to Washington County about six weeks ago to see Rodman, one of the swindling Trustees. Pollard claimed he wanted to buy Rodman’s cattle. He was driven out to Rodman’s by a livery man, who saw Pollard and Rodman sit down together, When the former took an immense roll of bills out of his valise, and, after counting it over, shoved the whole pile at Rodman, who took it ami put it away. ' When returning home through some woods, Pollard pulled out his revolver and said he had lots of money with him and wanted to be prepared to fight any one who might attack them. Rodman is in deep. The amount of his rascalities is not known, but he has slipped out .under cover of darkness, and Will never be seen again. A report comes that Pollard & Son have set up one of the finest gambling dens in Canada, and that the Trustees in his neighborhood have interested themselves in it If this is the case, Pollard will get all their money in the end, and the absconding scoundrels will be left penniless. Frank Pollard was seen in Lawrence County about three weeks ago, and showed his money conspicuou sly. He had five or six SI,OOO bills and a roll of SSOO bi Is. Pollard and his whole family used to wear diamonds by the dozen, and it is related that he gambled gold •watches and diamonds away repeatedly. He gave a relative a handsachel—ladies’ make —the tassels of which were bedewed with diamonds, and the handle was made of gold dollars It is quite a curiosity. The latest estimate placed on the villainous swindle, so far as known, is as follows: Grand total of dispatch of Sept. 125114,013 Add additional bonds held bv Jennings County Bank over former estimate.... 20,000 Ezra Lathrop 7,500 Thos. Poole 20,000 Other sources 14,000 Eckhouse, Washtncton? 2,000 J. L. Kendrick, Seymour 4,150 W. O. Chilton, Mitchel 2,000 Bonds in hands of Vincennes law firm for collection.. 150,000 Chicago bank. 50,000 Chicago troker....’ 200,000 Bank in 0hi0...'. 20,000 Harrison, Ohio, Bank 5,550 Grand total .$609,213

Some of the above figures need explanation, ' especially the last four items. The Vincennes law firm has been employed to collect the batch of bonds aggregating over $150,000, and there is no doubt of the estimate. If anything, the estimate is low. The Chicago bank holds $50,000 in these bonds as collateral for money loaned. This your correspondent learned from Mr. Charles E. Cook, of the broken Jennings County Bank, and he states they were offered him at one time for sale. The name of the bank could be learned, but it would be far from sensible or judicious to do so, as such a statement, driven home to the institution, true as it is, would embarrass the Chicago concern, and, perhaps, do it irreparable injury. Mr. Cook also gave your correspondent the statement that the Chicago broker, one of the wealthiest of that city, held $200,000 in such bonds, and offered them for sale to Cook. In the above statement there is probably no clash of figures, as they come from different parties, from widely different sections of the country. As an instance of underestimating it would be well to state that it was held in these dispatches that the Jennings County Bank held only $8,300 when it was really discovered that they had nearly $30,000, or three times the amount given. The Trustees that have left their constituents in the lurch and gone to new pastures and green fields are as follows: Arista Glover, Mill Creek Township, Fountain County. John B. Clawson, Logan Township, Warren County. Charles H. Brown, Washington Township, Daviess County. John Grimsley, Steele Township, Daviess County. John Clarke, Barr Township, Daviess County. Henry A. Thorpe, Morgan Township, Harrison County. Walter B. Rodman, Monroe Township, Washington County, Norman L. Jones, Liberty Township, Parke County. Robert N. Martin, Owen Township, Jackson County. The two last named trustees are in other trouble besides the bond speculation. Norman L. Jones has been sued by a woman for $5,000 damages for breach of promise. Martin left for Kansas with another man’s wife, and remained with her until the exposure of the huge swindle, when he became alarmed and skipped for parts unknown. Jones, of Parke County, with his breach of promise suit and his rascalities as well, realized the “deep damnation of his taking off” and skipped to Canada in the dark of the moon to join his fellow-frauds in a country that permits them to live in peace and plenty,- unmolested by American limbs of the law.

—Cincinnati men are reckless almost beyond belief. Among the brides of this week may be mentioned Ida Bone, Christine Hamm, and Carrie Damm. Now Hamm and Bone are bad enough, for who would care to hug a bone or kiss a ham—in fact, who would Carrie Damm to have anything to do with either? The appearance of profanity compels us to desist from a further consideration of this mattter.—lndianapolis Journal. —* —Charles A. Warner has brought suit at Indianapolis against the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St Louis, and Chicago Bailroad Company for SIO,OOO damages. He claims that while driving on West Fifth street, March 26, he was not warned of the approach of a train moving at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, and in consequence his vehicle was run into and gnashed up and himself badly injured, j —Stewart Bossfield, an escaped inmate of the insane asylum at Indianapolis, hanged himself in the woods near that institution. —The Grand Jury of Harrison County is investigating the mobs that have disgraced that county for the past eight years.

SOUTHERN ELECTION FRAUDS

Senator John Sherman Furnishes Another Supply of Republican Doctrine. Heßesponds to Gov. Hoadly, and Shows How the Colored Vote Is Suppressed by Intimidation and Murder. Hon. John Sherman makes a rejoinder .to the recent reply of Judge Hoadly in a speech, a portion of which we herewith print. We call attention to the dignified courteous, and statesmanlike tone of Mr. Sherman's remarks, with the suggestion that its facts and conclusions can neither be answered nor set aside by cries of “bloody shirt.” t I wish to call your attention to a controversy that has been conducted at long range between Gov. Hoadly and myself, and to answer a speech he made recently at Painesville. In my speech at Mt. Gilead I said the war was over and the animosities of the war should be buried; that I would not hold the rebels resnonsible for what they did in the war, but that we could not surrender what was won by our soldiers in the war. Among the results of the war I claimed were the liberty and equal civil and political rights of all citizens, including the right to vote without discrimination as to race, color, or condition. I charged that the Demo«cratic party of the South had, by fraud and violence, deprived the six million colored citizens of the South of their civil and political rights, and had prevented those entitled by the Constitution and laws to vote, from exercising that right wherever their vote, if cast, would allect the result of the election. I said that by this organized crime the election of Cleveland was made possible, and that this condition of affairs would never be acquiesced in until every citizen could cast his legal vote and have it counted. Gov. Hoadly, at Hamilton, undertook to answer my speech, but he neither denied the charge 1 made nor made any defense of his new political associates, but said I was waving the bloody shirt, that I was preaching the doctrine of hate and alienation, and that Judge Foraker and I refused to accept the results of the war. Now to wave the bloody shirt, is considered by such new Democrats as Governor Hoadly as a mortal offense. The precise definition of what is waving the bloody shirt is not yet settled upon, but any eulogy of the achievements of the Union army, any statement of the blessing won by the civil war, and, especially, any reference to our friends over the line as rebels, is getting to be offensive to a good Democrat, especially if he is a new convert. While I have life I trust I. will have the courage to denounce the rebellion and extol the Union cause, and, therefore, to this charge of waving the bloody shirt I make no efense. but will continue to wave it as long as it is bloody, but with charity enough to forgive all the rebels did in the war, excepting only those who conspired to bring on the war. As to the other charges, I replied at Lebanon that Gov. Hoadly had evaded the issue; that I was not complaining of the results of the war, but insisting upon their observance: that the constitutional amendments, the chief results of the war, granted to the freedmen certain rights, chief of which was the right to vote; that the parole of the Confederate soldiers given to Gen. Grant required of them, as an obligation of duty and honor, to obey these conditions of peace; and that the Democratic party of the South, by crimes unnumbered, bad deprived these freedmen of the right to vote and of all political power; that the events of which I complained occurred since the war, and were a part and parcel of the Organized party policy of the Democratic party, and never had been and never would be condoned until redressed. I said I would keep this issue before Governor Hoadly as a candidate for Governor of Ohio until he either disputed or defended this enormity, and especially so as he had been with me in political faith and action in the constitutional guarantees of liberty and equality to the freedmen. And now I have before me his answer, such as it is. He says that I “seek to revive and enlist feelings which the war engendered, the spirit of animosity to the South, to renew the battle fever, and to remind the parents and relatives of the men who died in the field, or in hospitals, or in Southern prisons, of their sufferings, in order that he may reap the reward in emolument and salary.” I deny it. He is the first who in this debate has referred to these cruel incidents of the war. What I claim is that many of these men who were rebels, with their party associates, deprive millions of citizens of the United States, more justly entitled to the consideration of a free people than they are, of the dearest rights of human nature Does Gov. Hoadly deny this? He does not, but states a fact which adds enormously to the offense. He says that, though the liepublican party has been in power for many years, it was unable, under the limitations of the Constitution, to prevent the atrocities I have charged. ■ Gen. Grant attempted this, and exercised to the utmost the powers he possessed over the army and navy to protect tihe freedmen of the South; but it was manifest that the force of the army at'his command was insufficient, and public sentiment would not allow the employment of military force in such numbers as was necessary to protect the freedmen of the South. Does it lessen the crime.that it remains unpunished? What the Republican party did was within the line of duty and the law. It could not furnish an effective remedy without an open renewal of the war, from which men of all parties shrank. But is the Crime committed in the name of the Democratic party the less because it was without remedy? That party was composed in the South of white men who had been rebel soldiers, or who sympathized with them, though in a minority of the legal voters in several of the Southern States, and was so strong that, aided by secret armed organizations called Ku-klux Kians and the like, they were able by terror and violence to overawe the majority of the voters, largely composed of freedmen. Appeals were made to Congress for the enforcement of the constitutional amendments. In the month of March, Is7l, General Grant, President of the United States, sent a message to Congress calling its attention to the condition of affairs in the Southern States, which, he said, rendered life and property insecure, and the carrying of the mails and the collection of the revenue dangerous. He also stated that the power to conect these evils was beyond the control of the State authorities, and that the power of the Executive of the United States, acting within the limits of existing laws, was insufficient. Thereupon Congress passed an act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment, and also appointed a joint select committee of the two houses to examine into the affairs of the late insurrectionary States. This examination is contained in thirteen volumes, and the report of the committee by Mr. Poland was made in February, 1872, upon the testimony of great multitudes of witnesses, inejndingmany of the highest officers of the army and persons in civil life. The evidence was conclusive that in the States south of Virginia anarchy prevailed, that secret armed bands committed murder and every crime known in the decalogue with a view to deprive the freedmen of civil and political rights. The courts were powerless when juries would not convict upon the clearest testimony. Every effort was made to enforce the law, but failed through the organized resistance of the Democratic party. This continued until 1875, when what is called the Mississippi plan was put into successful execution by the Democratic party in that State, with the avowed purpose of disfranchising the mass of the Republicans of that State. At th t time Gen. Ames, a man of unblemished character and honor, was Governor of the Stvte by the vote of the majority of the people. A military organization was effected in the name of the Democratic party, by which the members of that party were armed and organized, and at the day fixed for the general election they, by force and violence, in many cases accompanied by murder, seized upon the power of the State and subverted the government. This mat: er was again examined into by a committee of the Senate, and the report made by Senator Boutwell shows unmistakably that the object of their seizure was to prevent the freedmen from exercising the elective franchise, and from that day to this there has been scarcely a pretense that they can vote in that State, or, it they vote, that their vote will be counted. In the Presidential election of 1876 the Mississippi plan was adopted in all the cotton States, and the evidence taken before the returning officers of those States, after that election was over, shows that the same plan of intimidation was practiced with even more bloody results than in Mississippi, with a view to prevent the colored people from voting, but fortunately the laws of those States provided for canvassing the vote and rejecting the vote of counties or parishes where the election had been controlled by fraud and violence. In the States ot Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida the returns ot these officers, accompanied by the testimony taken in open session, showed conclusively that but for the frauds and crimes committed these States would have been largely Republican, and that by excluding the counties and parishes where fraud or violence prevailed, 1 resident Hayes received their electoral votes.. There is not a shadow of doubt that if the election had been fair in all the cotton States they would, wifhthe possible exception ot Georgia, have voted the Republican ticket . J&ormat Hoadly, with a strange perversity

for one who has been • Republican, see* no harm or wrong in tne open deprivation of the colored voters of their franchise, and repeats again the oft-refuted story that President Hayes was declared elected by means of a fraud, whqp the only fraud or wrong committed in these States was by the Democratic party upon weak and unoffending freedmen, whom they deprived of their votes. From the day of that election there has been in all the Sontfi a practical deprivation of the colored people pf their right to vote, but instead ot violence the fraud ot tissue ballets, and a false count and return, is the common and easier mode. Gov. Hoadly insists that because the Republican party could find no remedy for pne wrongs committed upon the freedmen no wrong was committed. This does not follow. It. may be that the Republican party failed to grapple with the second rebellion of the South with the energy demanded by the gravity of the offense, but at that time the resort to extreme measures was not in harmony with public sentiment or the strong desire of the Republican party to avoid actual conflict. But, if ft erred in this respect, does it fellow that this example of the overthrow of the rights of a whole race should be forgotten and condoned? Shall the solid South, maintained by fraud and violence, be continued a controlling element in our politics? Are. we prepared to have six millions of people deprived of their constitutional rights, as a festering sore in the politic* of the future? Shall we have a population larger than that of Ireland complaining of an injustice far greater than ever was inflicted upon the Irish people? Shall the promoters of this wrong, as a reward of their crime, enjoy increased political power over an equal number ot people in the North? Shall ten thousand rebels and Democratic voters in Mississippi elect a member qf Congress when ft requires 30,000 voters in Ohio to have the same representation? Gov. Hoadly thinks nothing should b_> said about it; that we must not wound the feelings of’the men who committed ’ this grave offense; that to do so is to wave the bloody shirt and to revive the recollections of the war. He asks, as Tweed asked: “What will yon do about it?’ He, professing to be a friend of the colored men, has no remedy to offer, no* advice to give them except to vote with their former masters and the Ku-klux Klan. He thinks, as they are Kindly people, they will do so. If we can believe the testimony of every living witness who has spoken upon the subject, the colored man, if allowed to vote, will, without exception, vote with the Republican party, that has secured him his freedom, and will protect him, to the extent of its power, in his political rights. I trust that I will always have the courage to denounce the wrong that has been done him and do my part toward seeking a remedy. 5 I said at Mt. Gilead that I think an appeal should be made to the honor and good faith of the South to faithfully fulfill their parole of honor, and obey the constitutional amendments, and I, as one, would be willing to make that appeal whenever I thought it would be heard or heeded. Gov. Hoadly asks why I did not go South and try to pesuade my countrymen that it was their dnty to right the wrong. He knows as well as any one that this appeal would have been met in large portions ot the South with the shotgun. Hundreds ot brave men living in the South, with property there and interests there, have been driven from tne stand by armed ruffians, when they sought to exercise the freedom of speech. A gentleman known to Gov. Hoadly, Gen. Willard Warner, while a Senator from the State of Alabama, was prevented from speaking to his constituents by just such violence, and hundreds of Instances are shown in the public records where free discussion was accompanied by murder or wholesale violence. But I do believe that there is now in the South a feeling that the best interests of their people is that every legal voter should be allowed to vote and have his vote counted. I am encouraged in this belief by many leading citizens of the Sleuth, and by the gallant contest now being made by Gen. Mahone and John 8. Wise, In Virginia, who have made, and are now making this appeal. I believe the Republicans in the South heartily sympathize in this movement. They do not in any degree object to a Confederate holding an office of honor, trust, or profit, but only ask that he shall be willing to observe and respect the rights of others.

The Republican policy of protection to industry, free schools, and internal development and improvement, accompanied with an honest vote, and an honest count, would win favor ■with the Southern people, if only it could be presented in open discussion free from the hate and sectional feeling growing out of the civil , war. That has been the feeling in the North, and but for the interest and policy of the Democratic party in maintaining a solid South, it would prevail in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee; while an honest election at any time, in any State south of these, except Texas, would give a Republican majority. Gov. Hoadly says that if the solid South will still deny to the colored people the right to vote, representation cannot be reduced under the fourteenth amendment, because 1 cannot point out the State law that in terms excludes them from voting. It is tor each house to judge of the election of its members. If the Constitution of the United States, which confers the right to representation's in fact disregarded by a State, or i within a State, each house will judge for itself whether members and Senators are elected according to the Constitution, and the case may arise when this will be its bounden duty. Gov. Hoadly says that the Republican party depends in Tennessee on fraudulent voting. The only evidence of this groundless statement is that the Republicans of Tennessee opposed the passage of a registry law in that State to be administered by the Democratic party. Ido not know the grounds of this opposition, but 1 can easily conceive that they do not care to leave the Democratic party the chance to practice frauds under a registry law as well as under their favorite way of a change ot the returns. A fair registry law, honestly administered, is a restraint upon fraud, but it is no restraint upon a change of ballots or a fraudulent return. Does not Gov. Hoadly know that all the historic frauds at elections from the time of the Plaquemine frauds at the election of 1886 to this time are the exclusive work of the Democratic party?

BLOODY-SHIRT POLITICS.

Virginia Democratic Utterances Contrasted with the Remarks of Sherman. [Washington special] It most require a goo 4 deal of hardi-' hood on the part of Democrats in the North, or even those in the South, to remark on the course Senator Sherman is pursuing in his canvass in Ohio, so far as it relates to calling attention to the atrocities in the Bourbon districts, in the manner of waving the “bloody shirt.” The Bourbons in Virginia are now, and have been for several weeks, going to extremes. It is well known in Washington that at the Bourbon meetings in Virginia the banners are inscribed with language intended to arouse the old Confederate hatred of the negro and the North. The bent of the Bourbon speeches is to fire the whites against the blacks. This mode of campaigning, however, has long been conducted by these people. It was left to a few days ago to cap the climax in this direction. Gen. Robert E. Lee’s son,in his enthusiasm, brought forth his father’s war saddle, bridle, and accouterments, and slinging them across the back of his cousin’s horse, bade him proceed on his journey, must arouse the Confederate patriotism of every true Virginian. ” It is related that Gen. Fitzhugh Lejp that day rode twenty miles across the country, and that he was received with “great feeling.” It comes straight here, too, that the small-fry Bourbon stump-speakers are drawing pictures, at white heat, of Gen. Robert E. Lee and his followers, and painting the gory battle-fields of Virginia blood-red. If this does not discount anything in the line of “bloody shirt” that has ever been perpetrated in the North, there is nothing in truth. It is very probable that the cry about sectional feeling alleged to have been engendered in Ohio is made for the purpose of diverting attention from the work going on in Virginia at this time, iSo bitter is the feeling in portions of the latter State that Wise, the Republican candidate for Governor, has refrained from speaking at certain places because his life has been threatened if fie appears there. The Bourbons call this “satisfactory progress in the campaign.” • . ;<