Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1879, Page 4

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JOTIN'S CONCLAVE, NO. 1. 1k.*. 1" G.*. 1%, G “1 +. 8. —Atiention, ffr_ Knightat Thicre will be x regular asaembily of thts Conclnva betd his oventnu at the hal, 73 Monrouet., (or {hi election of officers and payment of die ‘carneatiy. hope that every memoer will bo presen: DO, P, MEYNOLDS, BY Der Me's +, Sovereign. 4, J, FRENCH, 1 wid SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1979, ‘Tho merchants, manufacturors, and busi-- ness men of Chicago should lose no time in providing for so much of o cessation of busi- ness next ‘Tuesday as will allow all of their employes to vote without forfeiting auy part of their wages, In this way a full voto can bo asasured, and it only needs a full vote fo ronder Mr. Watout's election ce.tain by several thousand majori- ty. Thera never was a timo when it was more important that every Republicau vote be polled, and a general suspension of busi- ness long enough to admit of all the votes coming out will bon good investmont for tho employers, An ovidonce of the interust takon by the Germans in the coming clty clection was afforded by tho large attendance at Aurorn Turnor-Hall lastovening at the Republican mass-meoting. Tho nddressos of A, M. Wnrionz, Jonn Wentworty, ond Exeny A, Sronns contained good sound reasons why the Gormans, who have almost invariably supported the Republican ticket in Obicago, should uot desiro tho election of a Domo- cratic Mayor, and moro especially tho kind of Democrat that Oanren H. Hanntsow is, Tho clection of Hanrison would bo a notifi- cation to all the world that Ohicago approves of tho party policy of which ho is tho ox- ponent, and that tha people of Ohicago welcome tho Southern Brigadiera os con- quorors and rulers, ‘Having in viow tho experience of tho poo- plo of Colorado, whoso choico of a ropra- sontative in Cougress was overridden by tho Democratic majority, it is but rensonable to expect that a similar outrago will be perpe- trated in the enuo of tho Soventh Iowa Dis- trict, the sent for which is contested by who hod an olection on hig own hook o month after the Towa Congressmen were all elected, This brilliant Bourbon bases his claim to consideration upon tho fact that ho re- ceived 250 votes in November, and the Dem- ccratic fTouso, instead of showing the cheeky pretender out at tho door, invites, Lim to stay and continne the contest, the intention doubtless beivg to gent him at any time when their majority shall bo in danger, ‘Chey did it in the enso of Colorado, and aro quite equal to doing it in the cnso'of Iowa, ‘The Army bill proper having boen dieposed of in tho Housoso farns debate ix concerned, the political clauses, improper and Irrele- vant, havo been taken up, and tho fight has opened. ‘Tho contest bids fuir to be stubborn, and con hardly fail to bea protracted one, If tho first day's debate gives a samplo of what the Domocrats have to bring forward in tho way of argument in support of their uncalled-for tnid upon wisely-enncted lawa, it may woll bo considered thot tho pur- pose {is to gnin partisan onda rather than to protect tho rights and privileges of the voters, Judging from yoxterday's Dem- ceratic speeches it will only bo necessary in tho next Presidential campaign for tho Ito. publicans to quote liberally from tho argu. menta thera used to convinces the pooplo at the North that tho timo has not yot como when the country can be safely intruated to the caro of a party which oudeavors to ovor- vido all laws by forco of arma when in tho minority, and to repeal all just and whole- some utatutes tho moment it obtains power, ———_—— It now apponrs that tho anti-l'1npew Dom. ocrats of Now York and of the Eastern Btates, in their hunt fora candidate to pit aguinst Saanty, havo fixed for the present upon ex. Gov, Joun M. Paraen, of thin State, Gov, Patan is on old-fashionod Demoorat of the Southern school. Mo is aStatos-Itight, Popu- lor-Soveroiguty, strict-conatruction Demoorat of tho intenseat kind, It is true he wont ju. tu tho War,—actually marched troopsin upon the sacred soil of a sovorcign Stato,—and by force cocrced that soverelgu State into sub- wiisaion to the national authority, Ifo wos o Union soldier, and wu good onc; ho was algo o opublican for a time, and a good ono while he lasted, Ifo {8 5 hard-money Democrat of the old Benton school, aud has never taken any stock in paper money. We do not boliave, ut least wo never hoard, that bo has a bar'l— that is, a bar'l of money; and, like Ken- tackians gouerally, he dovs not use cider, If tho New-Yorkers want an hongat mau, the ex-Govornor would fill tho bill; but if they waut aman to oircumyont Trunen by ways thnt nro dork, then thoy had better hunt up somebody olac, Weare afraid that Pansen's hard-money notious—ho not having any money of any kind to pay ont for a nominn- Uon—will be fatal to him among tho softs of Ohio and Indiana, though his State-Sover- cignty doctrines ought to commend him to the Solld South, The Nar of Kentucky has boon greatly shocked at tho murdor of Judge Etutorr, and is at some trouble to find words to expross its horror and exeeration of the crime, At 9 mooting yonterday of tho legal profession of Loniavilla one of tho speakers Inid tho somewhat unusual injunction upon his brothron to atrain their {invention not, os ordinarily, to deviso means of cxcape for tho criminal, but iu this instance to secure his punishment; and almost in tho samo breath the speaker oxpressod a senso of relicf. that the murder could be accounted for upon the theory of insanity. Buronn’s probable lino of dofense ia thus carly anggestad, though in tho progent temper of tho Iawyors and of tho people it ia doubtful whether tho plea of insanity would avail to save his neck if tho trial were to taka place atonce, No fault enn bo found with tho feeling oxpronsed nt the Louisville Bar moet. ing rolativo to the infliction of swift and so- yora punishment for 9 crimo so atrocious; it is a sentiment which does crodit to the gen- tlemen of the profoasion, and the only ro-, grot is that they aro not oftener inspired by a desire to punish rathor than shiold assas- sing and butchors, DUTY OF REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN. Now that the Democrats in Congress hava fully decided to enter upon tho revolutionary programme for which tho extra session of Congress was called, it is the duty of Ropub- lican Sountors and membera of tho House to contest their progress nt every step. ‘This is tho ruling sentiment of the Republican caucus, ond it should find hearty co-opera- tion from every man who holds a seat in eithor Mouse of Congress by virtuo of Io- publican votes, If the Democrats can bo stalled, the work must bo done in tho House; but tho absolute freedom of debate in the Senate, properly improved by the Repub- lican Sonntors, may bo of gront encourage. mont and actual nssistance.to the House Ite- publicans in thoir offorts at ratarding tho Democratic measures, ‘The statement has been mado, and not contradicted, that tha Greonback mombers of the House will not ond vote with the Republicans in tho strug- gle ngainst tho repenl-of the Inwa for tho supervision aud protection of the Congros- sional otcctions, If this shall prave to bo tha cnse, the Democrats will have the sennt mojority of two, inoluding tho Spoaker, and thoir control of the Houso will bo so frail that any accident or noglect may compnss their defeat, Tho can- cua resolutions forbidding Ropublicans to pair with Democrats is, theroforo, of the Aighest importance; and, if tho Republican members shall strictly follow this rule, it is not unlikely that the Democrats may yet be forced to abandou their schoma of forcing through the proposed repoal of the Election Inw and the amendment of the army regula- tions as parts of tho appropriation bills. If it wero moroly a party question which the Democrats had forcad upon tho Repub- hicans, the desporate resistance contemplated by the latter might not bo justified ot this extra session. It could then be argued that the Democrats, being in the majority in both Houses, should be pénnitted to take such action as should seem best to them; that the Republicans should consont to the pas- sage of the appropriation bills in order to secure an carly adjournment; and that on appeal to. the country at tho next Congressional elections’ would bo tho proper course, to seek, But it is not o party question, nor ven on issue os to any temporary policy that may be tried without serious monuca to tha pence and welfaro of the country, “Tho impending Congressional struggle involves (1) the great issue of Stato va, National Soversignty which brought on the Civil War, and (2) the purity of olections, and consequently the presorva- tion or the decay of tho American elective systom. ‘Tho presont Democratic majority in Congress was not choson by tho poople ns an affirmation of popular approval for the Domocratic pesition on this question, and that majority is s0 small that it demands from tho opposition, asa duty to their con. stituents and the country, that thoy shall re- siat tho revolutionary schemo by every means at their command, If thora wero morcly a question of mb- mitting to the American people tho old issue of State Sovercignty; if a fair appeal could bo mado to the country to decide whothor or not the United States as n nation hava tho right to suporvise and regulate the National elections ; if there could be a reasonoblo as- surauce thatthe entire people would be al- lowed to vate frocly on auch an issi0,—then, indeed, the Republicans could well afford to givo tho Democrats all the rope they want, and to allow thom to proceed with their Btate-Sovorcignty heresies as tho quickest way to sccttro an adjournment, Under such circumstances, tho Republleana contd rest easy in tho confidence that the Atorlcan peoplo would voto the State-Noverelgnty moasnres by an overwholming mojority, ‘Thon it would be wlso to let the Domocrata rush to thelrown dofont, But tho Demo- cratic schomo {a more far-reaching than this, It proposes, white asserting tho State-Sover- cignty doctrinv, to deprive the people of a free opportunity for repudiating such action, Ju ropenling tho Umted States laws for the protection of Congressional eloctious, tho Democrats will not merely assert that the States nlono havo tho right to regulate the National eloctions, but, nt the same tine, thoy will have destroyed thoso safeguards under which tho country might have voted freoly and fuirly on such an fasue, ‘ho roughs and repeatora of Now York City under the manipulation of ‘anunavy; tho ballot-box stuffers of Qincinnati un. der tho leadership of Ertt Hotzann; tho “Red-Shirts" of South Carolinas tho “White-Linora" of Misstssippi; tho bull- dozers of Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida; aud tho dangerous clusucs of tho largo cities everywhere, who aro always subject to Democratic control, may ba used to ro-vlact Democratic Congressmen, and thus indoras the Statu-Soverciguty poison, in deflanca of ® populur inpjority in ao falr vote, ‘Thera will bo no National supervision to insure freedom and falruess in tho very elections in which the question of Nationul authority will bein ivsue, ‘Tho United States army will no longer be avuilablo ‘to keop tho posco at the polls” (for the Democrats propose to repeal that part of tho Army law), but artaed bodics of men in the Bouthorn Statos will be permitted to ausemble under tho tol- oration of Domocratio Governmert for the purpose of intimidating tho Republican voters, and to drive off or kill ft thowe whom THE. CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MARCH. 2 1870—SIX TEEN, they cannot terrify. Thin qnostion of tho National right to protect National olections in States which dony and dofy tho National supromasy, aid in celtics where tho local authorities cannot or will not ruppreas. the corrupt and fraudulont votors, can only bo fairly decided by the people whon sub- mitted under the mgis of the National lnwa whioh the Democratapow scat to repont, It is this peculiarity of the situation which not merely warrants but demands that tho Republicans in Congross shall avail thom. selvos of ovory parliamentary aud qecidental ndvantago that may presont itself. They must sook to tiro or outlive the Democrats in tho struggle. Tho Domocratio majority of two in she Honso may fail at any time by sicknasa, or absonce, or debanoh on thoir sido; tho Republicans should ho alert, and watobfal, and faithful thronghout. Lot the session drng; the fault will rost upon the Democrats and not upon the Rapublicans, ‘The Republicans havo a atqnding and sntla- factory anawer to overy charge of responal- bility: Pass tho appropriation bills with= ont the political attacliments threntening tha purity of elections, and wo will agroo with you and adjourn atany time.” In tho moan- time, the Republican resistance in Congress, approved, as it will bo, by tho conservative pross and people thronghont tho country, willampress upon tho President asorious ronso of his duty, so that ho will bo prepared to voto the appropriation bills if the Democrats shall finally succeed in passing thom with political attachments, Tho stubbornuess of resistance op the partjof Republican Con- gressmen will make the Proaident sonsible of his own responsibility to the people who elected him, and to the interests of the na- tion that aro threatened by tho obnoxious legislation, If, on the othor hand, the for ‘midable Ropublican minority in Congress wero to give way supinoly to the Democrats, the President might seek o warrant iv such conduct for his own submission to Demo- cratic distation nnd intimidation, This fight has been forcad upon, tho Republicans, and they must defend their positions to tho last, or they will lose tho respect and confidence of tho country, upou which both parties must ultimately rely. Moro than this, they will otherwiso sbandon tho only system un- der which the issue can bo fairly tried beforo the people, ADMINISTERING THE LAW AT A Dis. Tho United States havo a code of criminal lawa applicable to offenses committed against tho Nutionat authority. ‘Lhcse offenses aro against tho integrity of the postal sorvico, the integrity of tho internal and of the cus- toms ravenue sorvice, against tho coinage aud ctrrency service, against tha National Banking laws, aud various othor Lranclies of the National service, It has aspecial serics of punishmonts and penntties for crimes comunitted by persons officially in tho sorvico of tho Government, For tha proper oxecn- tion of this crimival code, which covera tho crimes of perjury, false swearing, embezzlo- ment, forgory, counterfeiting, conspiracy to rob tha revenue, and a list as long as any other criminal code, thera is a judicial oatab- lishment with a full force of Courta, Mar- shoals, District-Attorncys, and Grand and Potit Juries. i The Government of tho United States ia supposed to bo reprosonted in the sovoral distriots by honest and compotent mon. If the Government has any doubt as to tho intogrity or the ability of its legal offlcors, it ought to removo-them, Whenever in tho current transaction of business the Grand Jury of o district shall find that ncrimo has beon committed and tho evideice comploto, and shall so find by on indictment of tho offender, tho trial of that indictment should take placo beforo the Conrt in the district whoro the offense is committed. This is o right which the accused has secured to him by tha Constitution of the United States, and guy attempt by the Govornmont to defraud acitizen of .that constitutional right by o transfer of tho trinl to Washington City would bo declared an outrage, deserving im- peaohmont, > ‘Tho administration of tho criminal law has, howovor, undergone achange. Parties indicted in the Federal Courts aro no longor tried in tho district whoro the offenso is com- mitted. Persons accused of crime, for in- stanco, in the Northern District of -Ilinois, aro no longer required to answor or bo tried fn this city. Tho caso ig takon to Washing- ton, aud tho accused is under the necessity of employing counsel to defend him, not in tho District Court of Illinois, but bofore some extrn-judicinl and, we may add, extra constitutional tribunal at Washington, . Dis- trict-Attorneys are no longor ongaged to prosecute business beforo tho courts in their States. ‘heir businoss is to oboy instruc. tiona from tho tribunal at Washington; thoy are told when to indict, when to discharge, whon to acquit, when to convict, when to nol, pros. aud when to give the cso away. ‘Tho offenders against tho laws of the United States under indictmont in Chicago nro bo numerous that they can afford to keop a por- manont corps of counsel at Washington. ‘Thoy care nothing for the District-Attornoy in Chicago; if he venture to move against them, ho is notified that his removal is under consideration, or speotal counsel is employ- ed who can bo moro vigorong than he in minding his own business and doing noth- ing, or he is advised to nol, prog, the case, or to send tho papers to Washington, or to wait instructions, or one way or another to do nothing. It appears froin recont disclosures that Senators und Hopresentutives in Con- gress, not content with usurping the Exoeutivo power of imaking all appoint- monta for political ,oflecs, havo ongag- ed in the additional duty of con- trolling tho proscention of criminals in their respective States, ‘Thus wo seo the Sonators and tho whole delogation froma State appealing to tho uewly-constituted tribunal at Washington, not for a spocdy trial and prompt justico in tho oaso of ono of their conutituenta, but that he be dis- charged without trial, Nay, it is roprosonted that even n Cabinet officer has united with tho Sonators aud Ropresontatives of o State in appealing to another Cabluet oflcer not to permit o constituent of theirs to bo tried atall, No possiblé damage or jujury could happen to tho person indicted from a trial, unless hia guilt should bo so ovident that ho would bo convicted, And to prevent that conviction upon notorious guilt of an of. gravated orimo this tribunal at Washington lina decided to lot tho mango, ‘Che dif. culty iu to got somebody to sign the order of discharge, Wo do not boliave that the Prosident is awaro of -these proceedings, nor that ho is even aware that thoro aro many casos of indictment for scandalous cor- ruption kept ‘from trial: by tho Courts through tho active sympathy and interfer. once of tho Dopartmonts at Washington, Novertheless tho logul fraternity. ropresent- {og porsons under indictmont in tho Federal Courts are reaping o harvost for services at Washington, ‘Choy have no services to por. form in the courts hero; thoy are practicing hofore a higher aud o more potentin! tribunal, which assimes nationol jurisdiction nud con- trola all the agonta in the aduinistration of juatico. ‘Tho letter of Solicitor ayxon, of tho 'l'reasury Department, giving « history of the Attun caso, whioh letter was pnb. Kehed in ‘Vim 'Tatnunn yesterday, was a mort remarkable illustration of how tho criminal Jaw ja ndministorod at adistance. Thor used to bo an old-fashioned theory that tho Executive clameney could not proporly be invoked until after trinl and conviction, nnd tntil then tho caso was in the oxclusive jurisdiction of the Court and the public prosecutor. ‘This let ter of the Solicitorof the Treasury, however, shows that this theory is no longer recog: nized, and that tho Civil Service recognizes the iutorferonco or intorposition of mombora of tho Legislative Dopartmont with tho ad- ministration of tho criminal law, ‘Cho ren- sons urged at Washington in tho Annex casa for on abandonmont of the proseoution shows the advautnge of trying a caso with. out publicity, and how tho kind-hearted and venerable Solicitor was moved to ndviso a nol, pros. We have uo partioular concern as to what tho authorities at Washington umy do in that caso; but as thoro are & grant many other criminal ensos ponding in tho courts, ovon-handed justica requires oven-landed toloration of crime, “Exceptional prosecution has n ton- donoy to bring the administration of justico into disropute; and nothing is so calculated to destroy publio confideuco in law and in tho Governmentas tho intorposition of Excan- tive authority to prevent tho falr and impar- tint administration of tho Inw by the courts, in the courts, and according to tho forme of low. AN APOLOGIST FOR ASSASSINATION, Tne Tniuxe has published extonded nc- counts of the negro exodus from Louisiana and Mississippi. Interviews with the rofu- fees, gathered by hundreds in St. Louis, show that they hnvo been tho subjects of cruelly, opprossion, and vengennce ; that thoy havo bean robbed, deprived of the right of suffrage, and throntenod with death; and that in numorous instnnocs thoy lave wit- nessed tho carrying futo effect of slmilnr throats upon tho porsons of their neighbors and friends, ‘This in n frao country wader a constitutional Governmont guaranteeing to ovory cltizon equal civil and political rights! Tho facts doveloped through the negro exo- dus gives tho lio to the promises of Southern tendars upon which tho conciliatory policy of the present Administration was based, They promised that tho negro should be as secura as the white man in the onjoymont of all the rights guaranteed by the Constitution upon condition of tho withdrawal of Fad- eral troops aud the non-interferenco of tho Federal Gavernmont in local Stato affairs, Tho: Administration kopt its word; the Southern, Toadors have broken every one of their promines. We ara awaro that this is not nowa,-it is atale,—and any appéal to the Southorn Igadors or tho South ern people to do justice,to tho colored peo- ple would bo flat and ‘unprofitable. Wo do not propose to make rpy.such appent; they aro joined to their idolss !lot them alone. Wo make this refers to tho Southorn lenders and people, aisipusand times fore- sworn, for tho purposd of calling attoution to the fact that tho Doijdtratic candidate for Mayor of Chicago, Oausan H. Hannison, is o party to tha crimes of"tho South, Ilo ‘is particeps criminia in eygry political murder that occura in the Southr:: Ho shares in tho guilt of overy Southoril! Rohoma of nogro robbery and of every hort to deprive the negro citizon of his smallest political or civil right. As a member of Congross for four. years ho oto} the part of a subservient tool pf tho Southern wing of the Domocritio,party ; and by this course he beenmo an. -aider and abettor of thoso horrible outrages pon negro citizons which linve induced thoir'voluntary expatria- tion, While Canren H:!3{snntsoy occupied, n soat in Congress, hundyods of colored citi- vons woro sasassinated in‘sold blood, and the proof of tho fact was briught to bis notice, but never once did he raige his voico in pro- test! Thoy died nppenlitg to the Constitu- tion, which ho had eolemnty sworn to sup. port, for protection, but they appealed in vain. Ench and every one of those crimes was political,—purely political,—and was committed by tho direct ‘procnrement of tho Domocratic party. But Mr. Hanntsox nover fo muchas suggested that the Democratic party should seek to put an ond to the prao- tico of murder by its membors, or that it should take asingle step towards securing the punishmont of tho assassins. Mr, Han- nison knows that 9 single assassination of tho character described, committed in his district, would havo horrified the community, and that public sontiment would have com- pelled the prompt and adequate punishment of tho assassin; yet whilo protonding to ropresont his district ho misroprosonted it by a cowardly silonco on tho subjoct of crimes which not only scandalizod the uation but shocked the warld, Mr, Hanrison was a cltizon of Chicago during tho War of the Rebellion, .His polft- ical nssociates sought to froo and let looso upon Chicago the Rebel prisoners confined in Camp Douglas. Whon tho Southern Briga- diers in Congress charged that thane prison- ers Woro ill-treatad by the Union authoritics, Mr. Wannison maintained a ailenco which wag shameful considoring that through daily intercourso with thom ho had the best means of knowing not only that tho charge was falso, but infamously falso, fo listanod “to ® gross slander uguingt tho humanity of the peoplo ha protended to represont, and was silonts ho lstoned to a gross slander against tho army of tho Union, and oponed not his mouth; ho witnessed an nttompt to glorify tho memory of the Rebel Confederacy at the expense of tho Union, and, with s raro ox- hibition of treachery and cowardice, falscly pretended to be ignorant of the whole sub- ject. Wo caro not what pretonso to respect- ability ag 9 man Mr, Hannison may make, Ho cannot exeape this record, It was only nominally loyal during the War for the progervation of tho Union and the Con- stitution, and in Congress it was a shamo and disgrace to the City of Chicago and the Stato of IWinola, But Mr. Hauntson asks the people of thie city to indorgo his course during tho War and Lis coursa in Congress, He asks to be placed in tho ohiof oxccutive office of tho city that he has maligned and tho people that ho las misrepresentod, We submit that if the people of Chicago caro anything about their own {uterests they will not trast thom in the hands of euch a man, ‘The man whosg last act in Congress wos o vote to removo all guards about the ballot. box provided by law is uot fit to be placed in control of the ballot-boxes of Obicago, ‘The man who hos no word to say against political osgnssinationsy is not fit -to bo intrusted with the care of tho ponce of Chicago, ‘fhe man ‘who in Congreas voted to starve the Government of the na- ‘ tho foo of tho city he socks to govorn. Awoman writing from Bt, Louts on theanb- “T ap. peal to every man who may hold n ballot in hand to romembor that Democracy inenna tyranny, and that a Solid South may Jectof tho noyrs oxodus well says: Nis ruin A prosporor nation. GARTER HARRIGON AND THE NEGROES, Oanten Hanrison’s princtpal morning or- gon finds a special significance in that gon- tloman’a nttendanco at the political mootings of our colored fellow-citizons, and his appont- ing to them for their suffrage in the appronch- ing city cleotion; nnd so there is a epecial .£ignifiennce to the occurrence, but not ex: notly of the kind which Oanten's organ pute upon it, Tho significance is that OarTen, though a native Kentucky gonttoman, ‘ bo- god, wir!” and though imbuod with pro- slavery traditions, has como to tho conclu- sion, under the clroumstances, that “9 nig- ger's voto is 3 good os an Irishman’s.” ‘Chat's the way the Domocrats of the Hannt- son ordor put the caso, and, whatever the resnlt may be, tho Irishmen are not likely to relish tho compatison ; most of thom have projudices to tho oxtont that Mr, Hanntson pretends to have not overcome — their mostored his—titl election is over. The Tannison organ, in Sts efforts to nasist Oauten in ‘playing it” on the colored voters, says it ia high time that the blacks should censo to vote the Republican ticket simply because the Republican party ro- deomed thoir race from bondage some years ago. Probably n majority of tho negrocs, with a vivid recollection of the last adminis. tration by Democratic masters, may have a different potion of gratitude, But if tho service rendered tho black pooplo in this country by tho Republican party be nolongor a claim upon the negro vote, what now claim ling the Domoeratio party upon tho suffrage of tho colored men? If the Republicans havo not been as genorous as thoy should havo beon to tho blacks in the distribution of offices (as Canter Hannisoy and his frionds aro ondcavoring to make them be- Neve), how much moro genorons will tho Democrats bo? It is au insult to the average colored voter stupid cnough to believe tho Democratic party, now. as much as over under the dominion of tho Southern *'niggor-hators," will over adopt the African asa spocial political protege. Or has Canren Hannon o special claim upon the negro voters becnuso his Inst actin Congress wns to support tho revolutionary attempt to ropeal that tho National Election Inws and thereby do- prive tho Sonthorn blacks of tho Inst yom- nent of protection for their political rights? Has Canren, in visiting tho colored mon's political meotings, read to thom any account of tho recent negro exodus from Southern States, or bas ho described tho systematic busincas-awindlos, and outrageous political and personal abuses, which have driven tho blacks in large numbors to seek homes else- whore, even with a prospect of starvation boforo thom? We fear Oanren has urged nono of thesa facts upon tho nogrocs of Chicago ng reasons why thoy should vote for him—a Bonthorn, State-Sovoroignty Bour- bon—simply to dofont the Republican party, ‘Tho simple trath about the colored vote this spring seems to bo that Canren Haunt- HON has surrounded himsclf with 9 small numbar of colored mon who nre not regarded as shining ights’among their own people, and is thus. endeavoring to crento the im- pression among’ ‘the mass of tho blacks that he is very friendly to him, ‘Tho rumor that ho and his hired gang havo been required to leave certain colored Republican meetings undisturbed would indicate that ho is not making much headway, Oanren is at o sori- ons disadvantago'ns compared with his Dem- ccratic frionds at the South, sinca ho cannot organize an armed bond of bulldozers to go sround aud kill‘off 5 fow nogroos ag a warn- ing to tho rest that they must cither vote the Demooratio ticket or not vote at all, He eannot disperse colored Ropublican meetings in tho sumnary fashion adopted by his fel- low-Domocrats in Bouth Carolina, Missis- sippl, and Lonisinun, Honce he has adopted conciliatory tactiog; but his methods ara not loss hypocritical and insincere because they aro conciliatory, It is not likely that Oanren will deceive tho colorod men to any ¢xtont, for they aro not so stupid os he bellovos thom to be, but his dallying with them will offond a largo part of bis Democratic con- atitnency who aro still unwilling to regard tho ‘nigger as a mon and a brother voter. THE NEGRO HEGIRA, Now that tho colored mon in the South are turning thoir attention very seriously to- words the far Wostern States as their futuro home, and canvassing the prospects of mak- ing a living on tho prairioa aud ploina of Kausaa and Colorado, the Sonthorn whites are beginning to howl, ‘Tho press in all parts of tho South is commencing to warn tho unogroos against Northorn emigration companics, to point out to them that they will starve in tho Wostern States, that thoy cnnnot enduro tho cold wintors, that they will be fleccod by Northern sharpora, that tho Ia. bor market In the North ig alrondy over- crowded, and, in general, that tho worst thing thoy can do is to leave thoir homes in the Sunuy South, From the general tonoof thoir appeals, ono unacquainted with the so- cial relations of tho two races in the South would infer that tho whites hitherto had boon tho guardians of the negroand held him in the samo tondor and affectionate regard that a fathor doos hiv child, and that if auy. thing would bring a pang to Southern hearta it would be the reflection that their colored wards were going away to oxposo themselves to the posuibility of enfering and impecuni- oxity, Ouo does not have to search vory far for tho ronsons that nro actuating tho uogross to turn their faces Northward, and thoy are not very differant from those which induced them to take the North Star for thelr compass ‘in tho days of slavory. If the negroos had the rights which are guarantesd thom by tho Constitution, nothing could drive them from (ho South, It is thoir homo, and they know no othor, Its climato and its labor aro suited to them, All their traditions aro thore, Thoir familics aro thore, Their rolativos, black and white, ara thoro. Their doad aro thero, All their traditions and exporlonces belong to tho South, and tholr babita and modes of Iife aro essentially different from those of thoir Northern brethren, as well as all their mothods of labor, ‘Their removal from the South to the Northwest is ng radical a change as tho Chinaman makes whon he comes to this country,~ @ven moro s0,—because the Chinaman comes ere with tho intention of returning. to his native land, The motives,-thorefore, that actuate thom must be very powerful, Tho firat of of these motives is tho refusal of tho whites to allow them to have tho rights guaranteed them by the Constitution, Under ita provisions they aro mado citizens, but tion to donth, by rofusing rupplos, would plunder a city. Such aman is a dangerous character a friond of anarchy and honco to treat him os being Democrntio tickot. homes, 'Thoy havo tho right on juries, but that courts, but they onnnot’ obtnin it. counsel or witnonses, tho stronger party, in a fareo to thom, living. but name, up in one. urging tho negroes to abandon the South. ‘Tha motives that urge the Southern bull. dozers to pravent them from going are quito na strong ag thoso which urge thom to go. If thera should bo any gonorat hegira of negroes from the South, 1t might make such fn inroad upon tho consus as to matorially losson Southern reprosontation, Strongest of all rensons, howover, is the fact that the negra ia anccessity to tho advancement and interests of Southern industry, If he is withdrawn from it to any considorablo ex- tent, it will bo paralyzed. A dispatch to the Now York Times from Now Orleans saya: ‘Tho exodus of the blacks from Loulsiann and. Mlesleatnpt is producing great consternation umong: tho planters of tho Miesiau!ppi Vulley, who will bw uuable to till thelr broad acres uniesd the migration is epeedity checked. ‘ho plantera are all in acbt, and the fact that the majority of them neually hypothecate thelr crops one year In advanco of production adds to the complications of the stun: tlon, and Increnacs the genoral alarm that te felt concerning the immediato futuro, ‘I'he planters of Madison Parish, believing thnt ex-Goy, Pixcu- Back would be abla to persuade tha migrating pro- plo to abandon their determination to leave that parlab, recentiy invited him to visit that parish; but. Mr. Pinckuack was unable to stay the oxodue, Simultancously with this effort of the planters of Madison to detain their inburora, Vicksburg ad- monished 8. Louis through the Associated ross that the latter city's Influx of bluck {mmnigrante and. thelr baggago should bo subjected to rixid suultary inquiry. Why Vickeburg shonld focl guickencd ‘with such suddon solicitude ts patent. Tf it were not thot the South ssome in- capable of comprehonding its own intorosts, Ie it woro not that the South is dete¥mined to keop tha negro in a servile condition, the Inttor would be contonted. If, however, he is to bo denied every right, to bo made the victim of continunl porscoution and outrago, to bo refused tho simplest rights of the citizon, to bo donfed even tho chanco of making a living, thore is no reason why he Tho South may Iearn after a timo that ordinary humanity and the oxisting customs of civilization aro not only it could oasily check the omigratign. should not losve. right but romunorative, —————— As the popular branch of tho Titinois Leg- istatura Las done Tua Tnmunz the honor to iunugurata an invyostigation into the al. leged corraption of some of its members upon. rumors . firat made, public through ita, coluinns, we «deem it: not importinent to voluntocr somo additional advico upon the ‘Wo woro not only careful in commenting upon the ourrent stories to give thom the most favornblo col- oring, but we took somo pains to discredit them, and to construct a differont theory in rogard to cortain matters that looked tike corruption, than the ono upon which wag But Mr, Ropre- samo interesting subject. based the common rumor. sentative Bary, of this city, in his little apecch presenting the caso to tho considera- tion of his colleagues in tho House, and urging thom to adopt his resolutions for an inveatigation, was much more direct and emphatic in bis insinuations against the integrity of. the membors than Tue '‘Trmune waa, or, indeed, any other uowspaper that as referrad to tho subject. The following ia.an extract from the remarks which Mr. Banny submitted upon that occasion: “*It in charged, sir, and I beliove it to be truo, that cortain mombora of both the Housa and Sen- ate havo in past sossions, ns well aa in the proeent, Introduced measures for the purpose of levying blackmail, This charge, sir, 18 the common prap- erty of the pnbilc, and this body cannot afford to ignore tt. Taking advantageof this ataln upon tho character of this Assembly, and fccling themaclves secure against attack, the lobby: awarm by tho handed to defeat evory Just nivasuro intended for the relief of the people, “I have my grave suspicions, alr, from the Actions of rome of the inembers of this House, (hat the monster lobbles—the corrupt hirelings of Insuranco swindlurs and other Iegalized frauda that swarmed thls Capitol for ovor a month—did not coma here in vain, I om convinced, ult, from the united oppo- sitlon of cortuln suspected Influences on this foor, from the actlon of certain mambers who keep po; ping np and down on their sents, opposing met ures intended for tho rallof and benefit of the di trossed people, that they are but tho mero puppets of lobby{uts and interests that sro tniimical to the people, **T have my gravo suspicions, that somo of the committees of thts Houso have boon *doc- tored" by those corrnpt lobbylats, as ft seems ms posslble to eta bill Intonded for the relief of the peoble reported from thoso committcos to the (use, ‘*Whenovera bill {s introduced touching upon the rate of interost, or relating to tho trickery and fraud of insurance companies, ur upon anything olae tending to benoit the masses of the unfortu- nate peuple, Jt fs then that the puppets of tha lob. bylate put in thefr work both in committeos and ‘upon the foorof this Houso,"” It will bo soon that Mr. Banny not only declares his bolief that ‘cortain members of the prozont scasion” have introduced bills “for tha purpose of lovying Llackwail,” but goog a step further and hints that cer- tain of the standing committees of tho Hou'e have been doctored” and -dishon- catly influonced to defent good and whole- somo laws, ‘ha fact that a member of tho Logislaturo not only auataing the chargos of the pross as to the alloged crookcduess of certain jnembors, but supplements thom with omphatio and unqualitied declarations of his own, {s sufficient, In our judgment, to justify all that has been said by outside parties, and leaves the responsibility of tho matter upon the shoulders of a membor of the body who has had tho courage to come forward and assume it. Wo thorefore ro. spootfully suggost to Mr, Bannx’s Commit. teo that tho frat witness that they summon before them be Mr. Banny himself, and ro- quire him to tell all he knows about intro: ducing “‘moasures for tho purpose of lovy- ing blackmail," and all he knows concerning tha “doctoring" of tho standing commit. tees, There {sa little clique of R ean politty clans at Springfleld who are laboring under the hallucination that they own the Republican party of the State, or that they are unier some sort of obligation to Jools after ite fotereste and thoy have none of tho righta of altizonslip. They havo the right to vote, but they ara not allowed to voto uxcept they voto the Tf thoy attempt to vote any othor, thoy do ao nat the peril of life, ‘Thoy have tho right to hold politient maot- ings and inake political speeches, If they do so, thoy aya killod or drivon from thoir to nerve, tight is denied. thom, ‘Choy havo tho right to justice the ‘They haya tho right to tostify, but it. Jhoy tostify agaiust thoso who havo {njurcd thom toy aro dragged into pontentinrica upon trntip. ed-up charges of libel, nxd aro not allowgt Thoy oro not allowed asingle right of citizonship, socinl, legal, or political, that conflicts with tho intoroste of Citizenship, thereford, Socond, having no rights of citizonship, they nro ot the mercy of thoir omployors, If thoy own o littlo Innd, it is so heavily taxed that they soon lose it. If thoy rent a little patch and try to raise cnough to mako 4 little profit, the rent and obarges aro made so enormous that thoy cnnnot ninke 9 In all rospeots thoy aro kept down aa a servilo race, and aro slaves in overything ‘The two motives may ‘bo summed It is the right to‘live thot is. to promota ite cverlastliy welfare, According fy, they areas busy as the devil {1 a gale of in fixing upaslate and adapting ways and theans to bring out this man und that for come «flee on the next Republican Btate ticket, Of course {t [s the average American citizen's in- | Mlicuable prerogative to intercat himself tn pub- He affaira to bis hoart'a content, a privilege that wo would neither deny nor abridge, but, on thu contrary, seek to encourage to any rentonable Vint. And we only allude to the abject naw for the purpose of reminding the Legishuttve rl onthe Sangamon Riyer that the Republican party fn Iilinots is a lnrge-sizcd organtzation,— in fact, quite too bie to be carried comfortably in any man’s trousers’ pocket, and that it has a hatit of smashing alates and running the ma- china steclf, without dictation from avy quarter. ‘There area good many fotelllgent mon fu that party In the Stato who holped to organize ft and who have vallantly fought Ita battles, re- Joteing In {ts victories and mourning over Its de- feate, and they must be consulted as to ita fu ture policy as well as the nelf-cunstituted junta at the State Capital, if wohad any adyica to aivo these wise men who are 80 anxious to ‘fix things,” which wehaven’t, It would he that they devote most of their precious time, while the present session lasts, to the legitimate business for which their constituents sent them to Springfletd, and not unnecessarily worry thein< solves over the composition of tho next State tekot. Itiathis overlnsting worry over the events that may or may not happen in the f+ ture tat makes people nervous and wncomfort- able, and often sands big-brained folks to the insane asylum, a Tf it be possltile for those who have gona tothnt Dourhe from which no travoler has ever yet re- turned to take cognizance of what Is trauspiring on this mundane establishment, how consoling muat bo the present politteal outlook to the spiritual vision of the Inte @, L. Vautan- Diowast! That poor man was sorely persecuted while in the flesh, and banished to Canada ns a trattor, where ho "watched nnd watted over the border,” and only returned to dic a sudden death. But if be were allve to-day ho would sca the travail of his soul aud be satisfied. Ho would meet with some recognition of ils sery- {ces ff he were upon carth now,—probably ba made Secretary of the Senate for the present, and finally fi Lirunstan’s seat In that body,— aud thus realize that “peace hath her victories as well as war,’? and that the ‘Cause’ that. was lost nt Appomattox in 1865 fs partially re= gained In Washington in 1879, A small eum of moncy might bo named {n the Legislative Ap- propriation bill for the purpose of erecting a monumont to this unforgotten patriot’s mem. ory. — Mr, Conkiine was quite right tho other day when he reminded the Demo-Confederates In the Senate that they ought to be careful how they establlebed precedents: that thelr lense of power might bo shorter than thoy anticipated, and the time might soon come when thelr acts would retura to plagua the tuyentors, Between the yclow fever, the emigration of the blacks, and the murderous practicos of rufflans of the South, that section of the country will not be atle tohold itsownin Congress, and ft till decrease while the States of the North sud West will rapidly inercase. In ten years more the "Solfd South? will, cease to be au Impor- tant factorin American polities, and sho will almply be the tail to somebody's kite. Rebellion, State Rights, bulldozing, murder, tawlessnces, cruelty, and tho insecurity of life aud property will not induco sober, intelligent, and indus- trioua .cltizens to seck. homes for themsclve and familics in the ill-fated South. . ——— Tho New York Sun isso thoroughly of tho opinion that the Republicans will nomiuate E. B. Wasuuunna as their candidate for President, in 1880 thut it belleves another TMnols mau must be brought ont on the Democratic aide, In looking over the fold. Mr. Dana’s cagle eye rests on ox-Gov. PaLwen us tho man, and ac- cordingly dispatches a faithful correapondent to go out to Springfield and work up the case. But Mr. Dan4’s, man Friduy,no sooner commences tuigrovin' thule @ovurner Tor the race than the Illinois Democrats begin to fall into line. The Kittle Aontfor at the State Capital snuffs out Sast Tinpen’s pretensions by declaring that Samay "is the withered wreci: of the Jast cam- valen.” Mr. Penny H. Suitu, who fs popu- larly credited with the business of looking after Mr, Titpun's interests in the West, will do well to open a bar’! iu Bpringficld. a Our contidence {fn the wisdom aud good inten- tions of the Thirty-firat General Assembly of Tiiinofa $3 on the increase. It is now holding tivo acssions cach day, and It generally nullifles in the afternoon what it has dono in the fore- uoon. No sooner faa bill passed fn the House than a motion is immediately autered to recon-. alder, and on Wednesday o bill was passed fo the forenoon and sent to the Senate, but in the afteraoon it was recalled and reconsidered. Such delays aro wholesome, and will keep bad laws from obtaining a place upon the statute- book, a The Demo-Confedorates jn Congress have de- termined upon a course that is not only essen- tially wicked and yiclous per ae, but fs distinctly antt-republican, because it alin to coerce a co- ordinate branch of tie Government und compel the Executive to yleld its rights and take a ehotco of evils, The partisan majority in Con- gress is determined to carry out its partisan plans, revolutionary though “they be, or, stop the wheels of Government. In other words, they intend to bulldozo the President, — ‘The {nhorent cusscdness of a modern Demo- cratic training Ja well Ulustrated In the case of Senator Bayany, At tho Inst scesion of Con- grees, whon THunstan ond Brackpunn pro- posed to saddle some vicious legislation on the appropriation bills, Bayanp denounced ft aa “revolutionary; but the poor man has been made to toe the mark, and now fayors the same thing. -Bayanp's chango of base well illus- trates Democratic dtaelpline, ——————— That lettor which Dax Voornsus wrote for the Southern market at tho breaking out of the Tate Rebellion ought to entitle Dan now to the ulstinguished cousideration of Ina Demo-Con- federates In the present Congress, It the Tull Bycamoro of the Wabash didu’t go inte the Cou- fedorate army, os Joz Brackourn did, he at Jeust gave them ald und comfort by extending an unliuited amount of unadulterated Hooaler sympathy, eo CAMERON and his widow have been the inspl- ration of more newspaper Jokes than you cua shake astick at. Without jntonding it, aman sometimes contributes a large shara of the cur- rent fun of the season, The English people say thut tho Americuns have too Ittle sport iu social Vile, but they don't understand the vast amount of fan which our great mon indulge in ut Wash: jngton, <a ‘There is probably no truth In the current rus mor that Canter ILARRISON has sent to Mad son, Wis, to borrow “Old Abe,” the Samous war cugle, Canten's own “Bird of Freedom" belng out of ropair and incapable of doing dyty in ‘the presont campaign. Haurison may a3 well understand that “Old Abe" ts a loyal bi?d and fought on the other side, ———— ae The bighwoyman's motto, to “Stand and do- liyer," has been adopted by the Demo-Confed- crates {n Congress, who practically any to dir. Havas, “Sigu and dellyer,"" [tis not exactly “Your mouey or your Iifo,!" but it is “Y our money or the wheels of the Quycrnmnent must stop."” It Js the agsasein’s plea in aunilder but no leas objectionable form, ate A Now Orleans letter says. that “ The Jettics have vecn a fraud and a failure from the stars,” but the writer spoke only in regard to qiayiva- tion. ‘Thera was no “failura” the other day when Cupt, Eapa drew $750,000 on account. As Rmonov-makiug scheme thero Ie twllifons in tt for Eas und bis associated, When Ganvieep offered a resolution tn the House the other day to the effect that no bual- ucea boyoiil the appropriation bills Le offered