Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1875 — Sappy Over the Prospect. [ARTICLE]

Sappy Over the Prospect.

Scissors is political editor of thin paper this week, and has drawn inspiration largely from Republican journals. It is sad to real ire how bad counsel prevails in the once glorious old Republican party, as is indicated by the tone of the editors whose articles are reproduced in these columns. It is also surprising that men of intelligence and honor, of comprehensive views and liberal statesmanship, as these articles prove the editors of Harper's Witty, the Chicago TVtiwnr and the Indianapolis Journal to be, will still remain with and labor for the success of an organization whose leaders are proven to be corrupt, and whose policy is admitted to be inimical to the public good, and subversive of the principles of true republicanism. Wc have been shown a letter written by Mr. James C. Weathers, formerly a resident of this county, which is dated at Winfield, Cowley county, Kansas, February sth, 1875, trom which we are permitted to make the following extracts: This leaves my family and self well. Times here at present ate down to bed-rock. Everything is at a stand-still. Many are obliged to get clothing and provisions from the aid society ; many have fled the country. There is no work to be done. It is impossible to sell anything for cash, even at the very lowest prices. But as there is- an immense crop of fall wheat sown, and looking finely, which will be ready to harvest next June with the opening of the land market, if is probable that business will then start into life. Therj is now a better opportunity for investments here than will be presented for years to come. The soil is good, and with the return of good crops times will be lively again. At preaeul .quite a number are here looking lor land, but as yet only a few have bought. Stock is being wintered on the green wheatfields. Horses, cattle and hogs that have had no other care are in good flesh. Money loaned on good real esta’e security, commands interest at the rate of four (4) per cent, a month.

Joseph L. Clark, of St Mary's parish, LonUiaua, but formerly of Ohio, recently testified before the mittee at New Orleans as follows: I always voted the Republican! ticket until last election. At that time a large number of settlersfrom the North, who were equally Republicans and Democrats, voted the People’s Democratic ticket for good reasons. I did not see how any honest man in this State could vote the Republican ticket. Mr. Hoar ordered the reason stricken out. Witness resumed: Property exposed, like cattle or vegetables,-iii that parish is always unsafe. I never allowed my cattle to go exposed without a keeper. Forty murders have recently been committed, mostly by negroes. There Wa< agi eat dea lofi >o 1 illea lin t imidation of ponservative nesrroes by Republican blacks. One time I tried to hold a colored meeting. Colored men who wanted to speak on the Conservative side dared not lace the negro crowd, who loudly thipatened ip L-ill them in case they mounted the stand. Vi hen the United States soldjers came there they disseminated a report that the negroes would be disturbed. It was frequently asserted that the negro would be enslaved if the white party got into power. In my own precinct sixty colored votes were for the Conservative ticket, which, owing Jo a compromise between the whites and blacks, would have swept the entire parish, but for the extraordinary efforts put forth by the Kellogg party. There was no intimidation of Republicans, and »*e determined there should be! none. The magistrates, Judge' Metz and others, are regarded as very cprrupt men. I voted, though a Republican, against the ticket, because the honest men on the ticket bad their hands tied. It would seerii from such testimony as this, that while Grant, fjQg&n, Kellogg «fc Co. were raising the “stop-thief* cry of intimidation, it jj-as “gigantic fraud’ Kellogg and his co-conapirators were practicing means of in-i Umidatton tp compel the negroes to vote jhe pseudp-Republfoan, or thievea* ticket

Brothers James A Healey, proprietors of the Rensselaer Union, are happy over the prospects of a SIO,OOO libel suit at the hands of Hon. Jasper Packard, M. €'. and editor of the JrfL}?otte Chronicle. —Bens. Bepttblica