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-L THE WILMINGTON POST. W, P. CANADAY, EdV & PropV. WILMINGTON. K. C. Sunday Morning, April 25, 1880. ."in December, 186L, John Sherman canic to Washington, intending to re Bigu bis position as United States Sena ator, to go into tbe war, and was dis suaded therefrom by President Lincoln and Secretary Chase who thought he could be of more service to the cause of the Union by remaining in the Senate. SOUTHERN INFATUATION. , there are indications that the souths ern Democratic managers are about to incorporate into their platforms in the coming canvass the same old p-inciples of secession which were crushed, and which crushed them at 4ppemattox, and which have haunted them like a grim and ghastly ghoul ever since. It is in the power of the southern Demo cratsif they will, to eradicate the doc trines which produced the late war from the Democratic platforms, in fact to disarm the Republicans in eome measure, by declaribg openly and boldly that they abandon, the doctrine of states rights and accept in their fullest sense the new amendments to the Con stitution. If they woald do this they would 4i from the northern Demo cratic constituencies the deadly inculp? which Jiangs o ver them and tortures them with constant defeat. The atti tude of the south, since the war, on the questions which produced that unhappy struggle, has constantly kept the north ern Democratic constituencies in an apologetic position, a position of con stant parrying and defence, of constant coaxing of their following to tolerate principles and action on the part of the southern Democrats, to which they are opposed, There is not a northern Democratic Member of Congress who d?res to go to the hustings and defend such conduct ot the religious element means something more than political corruption. We never heard I efore of a man or candidate, r a party refusing to receive the support of the religious I element of the community. We always understood that the party who Tcceived that support was fortunate. Cut this ia not in e worse of the wail - inff of the Times correspondent. He says that "he had laboring in his I e- hall every KpDublican caDer in the - J L - city, the entire .machinery of the state government, the Post Office, the Pen- sien Department, ana internal revenue service as well as the combined influ ence of the thirteen railroad corporations LOOK UBJ? OKB YOU LKAP. Th e extra session of the Legislature recently held at the Capital in Raleigh, parsed an act proposing amendments to the present Constitution ot this sta'e to b submitted lo the people in N- vember next, for ratification or rejec tion. : " One of these proposed nmendmeLts let us expose ourselves to the ridicule of the civilized world, by Baying that we fear the state may be bound, but we will induce the people of the state to resort to unconstitutional means and attempt to accomplish that which un der the Constitution so many have sworn to support, will prove to be of no avail whatever. We live under the is to repudiate thg1 debt of the state law, lerus sustain the, law, not seek to contracted under the authority of the violate it. - j r .. We intend lo expose the desigued fraud and deception of the Legislature iu the passage of this and other pro-. General Assembly in the years 1868, 18GS-'C9 and 18GC-70. The. Constitution of the United States, adopted by the fathers in tie year 1787, bin this provision viz : "No state shall pas3 any law impairing IvAILEOADS The'oldrstotikholders oithe Western N. C. Railroad have met and voted to. sell whatever right they had for $50, 000 to Mr. Best. This would be about $3.50 on each $100,00; This is rather lower rates than any North Carolina stocks have ever sold for before. It is three hundred and - fifty ten millionths of one per cent, or as expressed in ara bic decimals, 0,000,035. thiDgs cheap. ; ' . On Saturday, April 10th, the officers ot the Cape Fear and Yadkin . Valley AN OLD BIBLE. The Oldest Copy of the Scriptures, Probablyt in Existence. From the Rochester Express. it'was in 1850 that I met, in Mobile, Ala., the owner of this Bible- Dr. J. K Whitherspoon grand-son of President Whitherspoon, one of the signer of the Ohio, where lie went in company with- HONEST JOHN .SHERMAN. His Chances for the Nomination at Chicago Growinc Better and -Bet-" er. - .. ' s - From mo New York Graphic Washington, April 20. Ex-Gov ernor Young has just returned from centering here." What is still worse the obligations of contracts," see article this correspondent says tbafrtbe Demo- 1, sec. 10 paragraph 1, of the Constitu ents are largely supporting the Secre-1 tion of the United- States. REPUBLICAN SUCCESS aD 1)'J tary. It seems from his . confession that everybody is suDrorting him. The - - tt 1. a , ; standing slur of the Ernes has hereto fore been that Mr. Sherman had no strength in Ohio. New it has found out that all the peep'.e, the churche?, the railroad corporation?, the Demo crats and even the restaurants, machine . i- .. . shops. anr all classes ol society tie rushing to his support The ill temper of tbc Tm:s is ac counted for from the fact . that Mr. Sherman is making nearly! a clean sweep of the state of Ohio. We clip what the Washington cor respondent ot the Tribune says. This is the judgement of Mr. Z. L. White, whose honesty and:,, sagacity are never questioned : The language of the Constitution is plain and comprehensive. The prohibi t'm it centains is not limited or re stricted to the Legislature of a state but extends a3 well to a convention of the people as to the Legislature, and embraces the action of the eople of the state who may seek to evade thjs Con stitutional, restriction fby amending its Copstitution. . fl v Such amend weut would be the act of the state, which, as we have said,would have no more force or effect than a leg islative enactment, so far as the. limita tion imposed upon the action of the state by the Constitution of the United States is concerned, and - &uch, .we be lieve, has been the construction of the 10th article of the Constitution, above nrned amendments to the Constitution 1 Railroad, or rather the Mt. Airy end of it, and some other citizen and "fifty convicts drawn up in line of- battle to receive us" as the Greensboro Beacon tells it. '.'No speeches were made no guns were fired no banners waving no martial music; to stir our souls,: or to remind us of the heroic struggles of Declaration of Independence.' The Doctor was an educated gentleman, and Best buys I urged! me, it I ever came in the region f Greensboro Ala., to bo sure and call on him, and he would show mehis wonderful Bible. I was not slow to accept his invitation, and rode on horse- Washingtoj?, April 18. Dispa'eies quoted, by the Supreme Court of lhe received at the Sherman headquarters United States ia this city from Ohio thi evening, say that the elections . of delegates to the. State Convention held thus far, indicate much stronger popular sentiment in fa vor ot Secretary Sherman's candidacy' than the public ha3 been led to expect. The election toak place in Columbus yesterday, and the vote was overwhelm ingly in laver ot secretary tenerman, 91 Sherman delegates out of 1)8 having been chosen. The same correspondents If the debts proposed to be , repudia ted are uaconstitutional, a rcaiy per1 sons suppose them to bf then . 'The Nftw York 1 Tribune of the 19ih instant, has tbe following very interest ing editorial:- -.. Conscientious conviction gave birth to the Keptiblicaa party. The early Republicans cast their voles as a mat ter of duty, and. their work was effective -because it was inspired -by all that is lpftiest and holiest in man' nature. The true missionary spirit wrought in those who went out to gain converts for the goodVcause. and there was a pto- found faith that the Supreme lluler, in his own good time, would .crown with success the faithful efforts of finite and humble workers. This zeal and faith made the party irresistible, and the re sult justified the utmost faith. Slavery was uprooted by a mighty revolution. A gigantic rebellion was put down. The supremacy of law was restored. The forms of loyal government was re-' established, throughout a territory' greater than in Europe any one nation ever held by conquest. Not without reason, the men of conscientious pur pose and strong faith, who made; the Secretary Sherman nearly three weeks , ago. During his stay there he' had ex- cellent opportunities for studying the political situation. -He passed through ' the state from " the -' northeast to the " south w est, stopping at various place?, so me of the time with the SecrelrVs' back some dozen miles out .of iSy way I party. He also spent several days in . to see the greatest . wonder of the age, Kentucky, where he carefully observed . of this kind of book. r the political outlook. . The Governor I found the venerable Doctor living is ozc of tho most sagacious f Ohio politicians, and bis political predictions are usually very accurate, leispecu liarly well informed on the subject of - I elegantly en broad acres, and with the slaves about him, for he did not seem to think there was anything in his Bible our ancestors on tlm very spot in 1781. against slavery, though his grandfather Ohio politics, haying been prominently B;ut we had met for- a different purpose signed the declaration that "all men connected with them for fifteen years." to inaugurate the work qjx the west are created equal." The book was soon He was one of the first to declare for end of our pet railroad and no time, brought out from a careful keeping, Secretary Sherman for the Presidency, was to be wasted in idle words.- and. sure enough, though I had seen and is one of the leading spirits of the for years the great Van Ess library, Sherman movement. Your corresppn- with Bibles having a chain attached dent met him torday, and inquired, of tnat once nem mem 10 a puipn, auu i nim auer oucrman s prospects in vaw; this proposed amendment can add noth- Republican party what it was in its ing more to their invalidity.- jThis 'is not a question tobs determined by the people at the polls, 'but a judicial ques tion to be determined by the Supreme Court of the United States, who under the Constitutian of the United States report that every county in that, the Xllth, Congressional District sends a' secession, or defend the infamous meas- solid Sherman delegation to the State lis made lhe tribunal who must in the ures bv which the JJemocrais 01 ,me uvcuuvu, ucuwuuwiy o la,t resort ueciaa iae quesuon. uoiumous went ier ouermau mree to one. The delegation trom the VIHth, lXth and XVth Districts are ajso said to be nearly unanimous for Sherman. ; Ex-Governor Dennisen, in a telegram" south hold power. And vet the southern statesmen go on blindly lugging and bugging the dead carcass of secession, which has been repudiated by tho supreme law of the land. It seems apparent now that the convention which is to be held at Cincinnati will 4u corporate in theif platform principles odious to nearly all the Democrats of the north, and the better thinking Democrats of the south and will insist on keeping before the people those hideous dead issues which were the cause of one of the greatest calamities which has ever cursed the na tion, an expenditure of blood and treas ure, a squandering of resources which has loaded us with an enormous debt,, a vast diversion of industry which im poverished us, and a demoralization and debasement7 of public pinion which hangs over us like a pestilence. Why is it that the southern Democratic statesmen persist in this course ? What is to be gained by it ? All of them who have intelligence must be aware that in contending for these dead issues they to a friend of the Secretary of the Treas ury, says : "The Beatty movement in Ohio is a failure. "The friends of Mr. Sherman here are confident that there will be no division in the delegation to Chicago, and that good feeling has been maintained by the friends of Mr. Sherman toward the friends of Mr. Blaine, and that Mr. Sherman's sup port will be acquieseed in by all with out ill blood. The agitation in favor of MrtBlaine has been more noisy than substantial. Ohio will be overwhelm ingly for Sherman." Mr. Sherman recruited' what was known all through the war as the "Sherman Brigade," numbering 2,300 men largely at his own expense, and cdntributeid freely outof his own purse to officers and soldiers f his acquaint ance who had beeu wounded in the service. SUBLIMITY. I- It is only once in a while that the are to be doomed to a miserable mineral public are permitted to contemplate ah ity in 'he nation for all dime to come. It is impossible to infuse lifeinto this dead and decaying Lazarus of our poli ticssecession. It is to no purpose that it is paraded before the people with its ghastly memories. Tl is great and progressive American population, even in the south itself,. have other purposes and aspirations than nourish ing these ill aud fatal heresies. Let ou: Democratic state convention 4 which is soon to meet in llaleigh, seize the opportunity to emancipate them selves from the doctrines which pro duced secession, and give a wide berth to this ancient fantasy, and they. will do something to silence a long history of their wrong doing, and odious legis la,ion. Let all the southern Demo cratic state conventions, and the lead- absolutely sublime event in politics. But such artjevent has recently occurred in tbis county of New-Hanover in a manner that lacked no element of com- Legislative, Executiv On the other hand, supposethe court of last resort should decide that these debts contracted under the authority of the Legislature of the state are valid, and were 'constitutionally contracted, is there any lawyer in the state who would have the temerity "to say.' that the neerle at the polls, bv voting for T 11 ' X t ml w an amendment cf the state Constitu tion could declare that void which the courts of the United States hold to be valid ?. Vv7e repeat, it is purely a legal, question, aud we would be glad to learn that the courts should bold these in valid. . i ' , We kuow that our .p.ople are poor and caauot. bear any further burden of taxation, but we must be; permiled to say thatf we respect the Constitution and laws of the country, and will main tain and forever hold fast' to that car- dinal principal of liberty and good gov ernment, Athich rend jr independent the Legislative, Executive and Judicial de partments iu their respective spheres, -as is embodied in the Confetitution of therUnited States and of the state of North Carolina, and we believe of every state in this Ub ion. The language of the Constitution of North Carolina is as - follows : "The and Supreme earlier days, felt that it'was blessed or its sincerity and fidelity by the constant aid of the Ruler of all nations. Does the Republican pariy think it can continue to exist and to rule with out that same high sense of duty which gave it being? ' Do the leaders of that party imagine that they can 'use it for the selfish ends of any clique, and &till command for it the grand forces which' made it so mighty in the hearts: of men ? That not very. Lard-handed son of Coil," lhe Hon. D. F. & 11 well first seiz---cd a sDade and filled a whcel-barrow, which Andrew Joyce of Dinbury wheel ell out and dumped oa the road bed. "Then tte following in the order in which they are made, .each rolled one wheel-barrow of earth: James W. Albright, R.,T. Fulghum, J. A. Gray, W. P. Vanstory, W. A. Estes, Sheriff of 'Stokes, Lyndon Swair, and Dr. J. K. Hall."; '.! ' , Col. Tom Keogh.-Cbi. J. N. fctaples, Dr. D. W. C. Benbow, and the editor of the Banner were there, but neither of them took a hand at the spade, or wheel barrow. Then "Capt. R. 0. Dick, the boss averseer," gave the word and the convicts broke ranks and "went cheerily to. work." It is evident that this CiVpe Fear-and ladkln Valley .Railroad or at least the uppr end f it is going to be built. , Jobu .SliermaiT's Dream Ben. Perky Poore, in L'u pamphlet sketch-of the life and public services of John Sherman, speaks of "the sense of The party was not created to be freedom and independence with all the pleteness. In order to a perfect understand ing of the sublimity of the event it is necessary to recount a few facts. About three quarters" of the people of the United States had vted to add three amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and the Congress had passed certain statuieTIn pursuance of these amendments. Then the Supreme Court of the United States, the sover eign legal tribunal of the nation,-had decided these statutes to be good law, with only , two dissenting voices. So these amendments and the s'atutes as sumed the character of absolute and tha government. Judicial powers of ought to be forever separate and dis tinct from each other,", sec. S, article 1. Suppose , cverr man, woman and child iu the city of Wilmington, were by their votes to declare that no part of the debt of Wilmington, contracted in the years 1SC8, 1SG9, 1870 and 1871, was constitutional, that would not make it so. Thus, we tee ; under the restriction upon the state, as to its power to im pair the obligations of its contracts; it a conspiracy of office hunters. When ever it degenerates to that level when ever it ceases to have sincere t'evotion to strong convictions of duty, it ; will cease to inspire the souls of men with sacred fire and faith, and will wait not long for deseryed defeat. Is the ell'irt for a third term laithful to tbe highest convictions aud aims of the Republican party ? If it is the duty of the party to give the country a pure government, can it da nothing better than return to the methods of General Grant's administration ? If it is the duty of the party to maintain the hon or of the nation, cau it say with truth that it full dutv was doue during the eight years of peace which witnessed no preparation whatever, for resumption ? If it is lhe duty of the party as it surely is to protect its citizens in their rights, to put down assassinatijn, out rage and fraud, and to defend the en franchised colored people from the op pressions which have caused an exodus, does the Republican party dare to go back to the methods which, for eight years of wretchedness, lawlessness and massacre, were tried so vainly? We knew what two terms of'v President Grant did fsjr the colored people and their rights, for the hyal men of the south, lor the purification ot the gov ernment. Has the Republican party any right to say that it can do no better, or any excuse for hoping that a third term will succeed where two have fail ed. " ' 'i ' ' " .' In frankness, is the third term move ment anything better" than an attempt to use lhe grand old Republican party as the tool of a 8et of office seekers ? A clique of leaders who habiually use their power and patronage to prolong and extend their power, and a band of followers and worker., some in ilices which they, wish to retain, aud others hoping for places if their leaders can makelhe next President are not these the d.emeutsZjvhich ir.ak the third term movement strong? Consider that in the great Republican states, where tbe voice of the voters is heard, and hopes and anticipations of the future," enjoyed by the boy John Sherman when be was on his way in a j stage coach frm Lancaster to McCoiinells-. ville, Ohio, to begin life as a roadman on the improvement of the Muskingum river, in the spring of 1837, he being theil fourteen years of age. That is a mere passing reference, and will probably attract the notice of only a few oFtfee hundreds of thousands of the Bible of Philip Melancthon, with his autograph, I had never seen any such Bible as this. . . I took it in my hand with awe, for it was written in the days of King Alfred, and by a monltjof Cornwall; England; he worked at it forty years almost a lifetime and was evidently on the very finest parchment, little inferior to satin. How such a finish could be put upon theskin of any beast in the days so long ago, when the" binding of the book was in oak; boards, tied with buck skin thongs, was a mystery and almost a contradiction. r " , But more woudeifui yet was the writing within; The pages were all ruled with great accuracy and written as uniformly in the lines as print, which was not then invented, lor some 500 years lay between that old monk and Faust and Guttenburg. The style was German text hand, and was an abbre viation from the Vulgate of Jerome, made in the fourth century. The first chapter of every Jbook was written with a large capital, of inimit able beauty and splendidly illuminated with red, blue, and black ink, still in vivid letters, with ho two of the capital letters precisely alike. He was, indeed, a Dore before him' of our age. Each chapter is divided into verses by a .dftt of red ink, though I do not remember when "tbe venerable Bede" made his division of Scriptures Into chapters and verses." This dot of the! Bible I speak of may have been the work of a subse quent age. r As to the size of the book, it, was about that of an old Ainsworth Latin dictionary the kind that was mistaken l t i t i persons who will read the sketch, but "r a liioio once oy a lamny in Ata- .. , ,. i ' , .. ' r .uivt 4 -baraa, aud brought out at the request it has suggested a train ot thoughts to e ' , . b u i .i rs , . . . of a colporteur, who wished to see their the writer, and created an imagining Bible! This manuscript Bible of Whith- aa to v.hat-the boy Sherman fancied he erspoon contained all the books of the miiiht accomolish. It lias suested Old Testament except the Psalms and that he had a heroic io i' a -steady pur pose, and that lie fo-med a resolution to put forth every effort to i make-his mark ia the world. Among, the most extravagant of those fancies can it be that he reached the point which he has attained since? It cunot be supposed that he dreamed he would be elected while yet a young man, to the National House of Representatives; that he would during bis first term as i Itt'presenta- become a leader, and at the beginning of the next an almost successful candi date for: the elevaled poiiiien of Speaker of that House; that at'the end of 'his second term he would be transferred to the United States Senate for six years, to serve with marked ability and suc cess; that he would be re-elected for a second and thid terra as a Senator, and that while so serving he would i i .1:1 propose ana carry tnrougn, against powerful opposition, ihe national re stimption legislation required to settle .1 x 1 - m 1 i" . .1 vj ? . 1 j 1 r tne ciisiurpeu conauion 01 ine unances produced by a gigantic rebellion arid war, which left the country, grown to many times its greatness of fliat day, with a debt 0 more than tvoihou.sand million t dollars, and with more than l' T 1 1. 'II! . ''t' 1 iil seven nunurcu miniou or aonars orjae- I V f V f fTl rr cAnlr t n v n nrl fll I, a I ,1 ! M I ' i .1 i 1 ' ' il U m nowerless as would be an individ- viuW ow..8. auu uv,c uumiu preciaieu currency in paper raoneyj is as poeness as. vouiu ue an lnuivia 1 machme dors not nre.va ihi mnw. ir i,a,i tw Hrmi ti.oliik t. i 1 . . e .1 ' tt 1 ual or a municipal corporation. ing newspapers, and the leading men, supreme law. Every possible element drop out frm their politics these prin- which could confer on these laws dig- ciples which have caused them so much nity, and weight and respectability was injury, taboo them, revolutionize pub- combined irt them. The nation had lie sentiment ia the south, and they put,m legal phrase its supreme will ! will be entitled to the consideration, if The character of the whole proceeding not the gratitude, of the nation, j They was so perfect and conclusive that no will by such a course proclaim an era eulogy or paraphrase or variation could of peace and prosperity to this part of increase the splendor of its authority." But it may be argued that debts are declared bv the Court of the United States to be valid, and that the State is ljabla for their machine docs not prevail,' this move mentis impotent and .nsiguihcaut. Its would become Secretary of the United if these force is in the states where machinery States Treasury, where he could watch suppresses the convictions of voters, or that legislation aud carry it into pier-j wnere ine party is weaK ana dependent, lect and successlul execuion, so that :upreme constitutional a barrier be- the-country, aud introduce justice in rplace of .wrong and the smiles of plenty instead of the scowlings of their present poverty. 1 ' t m I THE' HULJj AND THE ICED HAG. No bull'ever went into aage quicker or more furiously at sight ot a scarlet rag than does the N.'Y. Times when ever the friends of Secretary Sherman make aiiy forward movement. Just now when the Secretary seems to be This being the state of things that "hefty" body the "Democratic Coiiuty. Convention" of New Hanover, took the bull by the horns, put their faces against these grave and supreme laws of the nation, in a most withering and melan choly and mournful rebuke, through their chairman of committee on resolu- . tions, "Mr. F. H. Darby," allowH: ana oversiiaaovved by ithe luteuse pas sions of unreconstructed rebelisra. The men of conscience and of fidelity to duty, the men who made the Republi can party what .it, was in earlierday, do not speak through the fckelelon del egations from .' siutheru8tates, nor pass any law looking to the payment of through the machines 'in this state or these debts. Can It" be J preteEded that Pennsylvania. But 'the Republisan party cannot :tvrd lo iguwre 'f their prti.ii!itj siweepiug Ohio Ithe T'imes is in a fearful rage, and bellows like the bull of Bashan. The correspondent of the Times at Columbus seems to have gone cot only into a furious craz3 but into a sort ot idiocy, lie charges thatr Mr. Sherman is sweeping into his support I all the'elements of the population. He says that "meagvho had not attended primary elections for 10 . years were drawn to the voting places, the elders and deacons of churches joining in the movement, and for the time being, do ing the work usually accorded to ward politicians." He add,s that "staid churchmen became enthusiastic oyer ward politics, which at times threatened to gain mastery over the church and its teachings." It occurs to one that i 1. That we view whl. tne constant ana progre.o.e Hioveajents which under Republican administration are being made to consolidate power in the Federal, to the displacement of the local self-government, and thereby to destroy the methods and form of con stitutional government which the fore fathers ot the Republic, a century ago. payment, the proposed amendment would place tween the Court and the Legislature. Who would have power; er authority to the 1 pret an act of the state, which the court of the last resort hold to bz uuconslitu tioual and void, could be interposed between the process of thai c-jurt to render such process nugatory? We do not oeiieve mat tne fcuprcme Court of the United States balT the power under the Constitution to com pel a sovereign ttate te certainly a ia ii(4,i:'.u against the state. Viv iLen this agi tation before the people of ji eonstitu tionaKuestion, which they are power less to act upon with auy lawful effect. If tbias proposed amend meht to the Constitution is intended as a mere what was predicted by one-half of the country would be not only a Hat failure, but the tliort alone would produce uni versal ruin, would,' on the , contrary, prove to be the most wonderful and complete success known to m6dern the Apocrypha. Two , chapters, the last or Leviticus and the first of Num bers, containing the most splendid cap ital letters in the book, had been rc cehtlyfwantonly abstracted or cut out, in Hhe' house of Dr. Whitherspoon, by some bibliomaniac, whd did not dare steal the whole book, It contains, also, "the whole of the New Testament, ex-. oant tho fill utor ivliera l!:rlltofl text occurs, about' "the three who bcafi record in heaven." ' " - ' ' In regard to the history of thiBible,' the Dictor told me that it. was fou)d by a friend of his father among a lotof old books bought at auctjon for a song some 20i and takeUto a clergyman, the Rev. Dr. McCalla; of South Caro lina, and a bookthat the; purchaser could not makehead nor tail of, and which might Joe of value to some booR learned man. The clergyman 'readily gave hinya dozen books for it from his library; such as could be easily ' uuder stooaby the people," and the man was ppy in the exchange. Dr. McCalla certainly was, for he had driven a Sharp bafgain, and had a book that was worth, when first written, $2,500, and would be worth that now to any old book worm who desireth not new books any more thn new wine, "for he saith the o'd is better." This heirloom barely escaped getting out of the family line, for it was once loaned by Dr. Whitherspoon, but he had tr e forethought to put tne borrower under written bonds to return" it, and. a .... ' the man dying, the book was lent by his widow to some third person, and finally found its way, as a rare treasure, into some college Harvard, I think- whence it was recovered, under a threat ot a suit on the bond. I left the sight and handling of this "What is Sherman's slrentbrin Ohio, Governor?' i ; ; ' 1 "He is deservedly the strongest man ' -iu the state." ' : "Stronger than Mr. Blaine or General Grant?" "Most certainly. Grant 'has no strength in Ohio, and Blaine has not enough to carry a single Congressional district." ; "Are the reports of Mr. BlaWs strength in the northern counties not exaggerated ?" ; V. ' f "Very much. It is true that he has many warm friends, but his strength in Ohio has been very much overrated by a few blataut would-be leaders and soreheads. The loudest-mouthed Blaine boomer in Ohio, General Beaty, was defeated for delegate to the State Con vention in his own ward in Columbus last Saturday." 1 ' f v - "Do you regard Secretary Sherman' declaration that he is not a candidate " unless supported by the solid Ohio del- rgatiou as good policy ?'t ? 1 v "I do; because no man should go iulo. a National Convention as a Presidential candidate without the endorsement .of his own state. As to his receiving the solid vote of Ohio there is no doubt in my mind, because our people feel a just pride in Sherman's brilliant career, and, ; besides, we have a feeling of state pride which we are bound to uphold. ; This feeling will overcome all the petty jeal ousies and disappointments which the men I referred to are fryiDg to enlarge into.a Blaine boom." "Is Secretary Sherman gaining or losing strength ? ' . : l "Gaining strength every day all over the country;" ' - "You visited Kentucky, I believe. What is his strength there?" "Kentucky was bulldozed for. Grant. . State Convention, and from observation Vr-V I am well satisfied that if the earnest ' business men ,c3uld have, expressed nemselves Grant would not have been endorsed. I was very much astonished . mf - to see how earnestly certain leading ' eaumg politicians urgea tne cnaorsc- mcnt ofaman whom they well knew they could nottast a yote.to elect. I do not think it was modest in the Rtr rounders in Missouri and Kentucky,. to insist on instructing the delegates to iaiik jiirnsrn I nnrptiitnn Tnr on-w noriw. 1 O IV UU J U.V.V uiar candidate. ' . , Who ' is YOiir rniuliiliito aftfr IVTr Sherman V . ' .' . - "I cannot say: indeed. I have never given it a thought. From thd begin ning I have believed that Sherman will be nominated and triumphantly elect- , ed." . -"V. - . : 'J : "What do voui thiuk of General Grant's chances of election if uoiai- . nated ?" ' ' ''Well, to be candid with you. Grant cannot be nominsited; unles3 bylke states which cannot send a single-elector iu voieaor uim in tne- college, and it nominated I really believe he cannot carry Ohio. The masses of the German eleiyent of the" Republican party and thefr newspapers are opposed to a-third term, and, without the German vote Ohio would go Democratic every time. Personally, 1 like General Grant.- But I fear the policy of putting him in nomination again as a party measure. Wc want success, and we cannot afford to endanger it by'foolish man worship." These are the opinions of a keen oW server, who has had more tham ordinary opportunities for observation. It is more than sufficient to contradict j the reports set afloat by Sherman's enemies , that he is losing strengthen his own state. v - ' ; , . v : times, wing to his superb and masterly most wonderful Bible .of any in exist- rv r.s eieljw. tvouid not lie so gloriously and successfully fought political trick to deceive the pe6ple,tbe to establisn. - , . people ought to know it, and not place lnus iemn one crumonng rum the themselves in tne absurd position of majesty of the supreme law cf the na amending the Constitution for the pur- tion before the omnipotent will of the pose of declaring lhat .ya;d which is al- 'Democratic County Convention" ofLready voiJ, or declai mg New Hanover. Such catastrophies as the vdestruction of the temple of the Philistines by the inexorable Samson, the demolition of the Coliseum, and the burning of the Kremlin of Moscow, are eclipsed by the remorseiessness of these terrible New Hanover Democrats, these modern Huns and 'Visigoths. that void keeo. which no action of theirs cau ma if in fact, the obhgat:on ; or contract is state can pass no law impairing the obliga tion of a contract. We make lb gestion for the benefil of the people! Let us avoid the payment of these -1 debts if we can legally do so,but da not voice. It their convictions are not its convictions! their high sense of .duty does npguide its work, is there not danger that the party , is degenerating inio a cons; iraey to get aa Keep ot- iiee i It is the duty ot the Republican parly to maintain in this land the su premacy of loyalty. That duty is a high ahd sacred one, and no Republi cau lia any right tov imperil the suc cess of the party, atnl the safety of the country, iu ' order to serve any selfish interests or private grudges. But sober, and thoughtful men kuowr that' the 1i(Hnination of the ex-President would involve great and needless peril. It is demanded, in spite of that fact, by men who have private lifcesf or dislikes to satisfy, or personal end- to serve, for the sake of which tbeyj arc willing to risk all the high aims and sacred duties "of the party. , Indeed, it is even whispr cred that these managers, unless tbey can have their way and are permitted to use the party for their - own ends, may be willing to see it defeated. Let us believe that the whisper slariders them ! But ia it not time for the Re publicans of conscience and conviction to take counsel together, and determine whether the spirit which thi whisper represents shall be permittel either lo rule or to rum? Out grammaticalflOO puzzle is hav ing tne run now. management. He did not faucy all this, and could not forsee as theresult the prosperous and happy condition of the forty-five million of his fellow-countrymen, many of whom had become disheartened and discouraged by long-continued hard times and want of employment of tbeir capital and muclc, that the change for the better ojf those CQnditious'woul'd be recognized by them as in a great meas? ure due to his foresight, courage, firmr ness, fidelity to principle and superhu inan integrity, arid would induce them to have faith, slowly it may be, but surely it will be found, that John Sher man is the mau above all -others to whom they can mst safe y entrust their substantial intt rests, their dearest rights ence, perhaps, with many a longing, lingering look, but not till I had written its history very fully at the request and aictaiion 01 tne venerable owner. ' The Cincinnati Gazette favors John Sherman for; President for four -sufli cient reasons; 1. He would carry Ohio by a decided majority against any man the JJemocfats coiild place n the fjeld 2. IJe would pome nearer to polling the full vote of the party in all the states than either Grant or Blaine. 2. With Ol . ' " j. t- t . S.t oueruiiiu as' a cauaiuate me "canvass would be an aggressive and not a de lensive one. 4. He would, if elected. make an able; conservative and econos and privileges-Tin a, word, that they mical Presieent, and would be able to woum ueterzuiuu i luase mm vjuiei "auuoyeranaaministration witnacleah Magistrate of this Nation in 1880. None of ifr. Shermau's supporters have indulged in persoual abue of r jval candidate?, notwjthsfan'ding the fact that Mr. Sherman himself has been" the subject of about as malignant" and vipr ery Jying as was ever a distinguished candidate for office iu the history of the country. It i3 possible to assail aome f Mr Shermau'd opponents as severely and with quite as piuch truth as thev have assailed him, yet the plan of sup plying the enemy with arsenals of ready made abuse of a man who may .after all be nominated, has seemed a sagacious one to only the fool friends of certain of Mr. Sherman's rivals. Cleveland Jflerqtcl. : . . - - 1 - Tfc iuu iu a. xvepuuiieau successor in 1884. These, in our opinion, are weigh ty consideratiens, and ought to govern the Chicago Convention." hu't- they gbyef n or. not, the pazeUe exnects i, H no iuc puccess oi the uomiuee. The Massachusetts delegatiob to ChU cago, m for Edmunds as first ct oice aud should he not develop sufficient strength I then the twenty-six votes of MassnoW - sens wiu, we nave reason to believe be voi, mt doim onerman. A delegation """cu jr vreorge J? . Hoar does n mean Blaine as a secdnd, ;r even inira or lourth choice. Ohio Mote journal, - . 1 Congressman JUorrell on v the Thud ' . . . , Teim. ;. Congressman D. J. Morrell was yes-' terday asked by a Herald reporter for an; expression of bis views in relation ty the ceming Presidential campaign, arid said that in his opinion the third ternf "boom" was entirely over. He thought' . that while tho people were not opposed' to the ex-President personally,? ami .' were not. strenuously opposed to the third term being given to any man if he should be the best nian eaph time to V fill the plape, yet there was an bpposi: V tion to the ramming: down the public throat of a-iy man or any pelicy by any politician or clique of politicians. . ' i"How.is it that in the Harrisburg Convention, in February, such an iii, dorsement was given to thcthird term) policy?" asked the reporter. -Well, as to that," said 3Ir. Morrell, "the Convention was undoubtedly ;6n- i; trolled by the Cameron influence. Now, I am not opposed to Cameron personal ly.. In many things I am. oh his side; v but there vi no doubt that he carried that Convention. Why, fully thref; fourths of ihem, if not four:fifths? were . Blaine,menA They' eyen went there" witli Blajne badges on, aa -many as' threefourths of them. Butthe Camer. on workers got hold of then! in small parties of three and four and made them think i.hat the only, thing to do was to go foi- the third term ; that if they did not the chances ot the party weuld bejm perilled. So the vote f as carried. Buft when it comes to the Na tional Convention the Pennsylvania -delegation wilL be found to be far Blaine.
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