The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-10

loses it's fertility of idea, and even OF Ian
guage, when it deals only in eonmonplaces'
when it's resorts and devices can be an
ticipated when it lives in the past, when
it's Joints cease to be supple, and it driVels
in its speech, we may be sure that such
party is antiquated, and soon will become
obsolete
Now this is precisely the condition OF the
corrupt leaders of the RADICAL party. They
have done so thriving business upon 'out-
s'rages," that they regard this as the trump
card in the suit. An election that does not
put one of their tools in Office has been over
awed by outrages. A State which does not
honor the most contemplate of its citizens
and the base among its resident aliens, is SO
disorderly as to require martial law-lt Is
an amphitheatre where creatures fiercer than
Numidian lions are tearing the martyrs 10
pieces. If a knavish fellow, who buys stolen
cotton at night, is ''interviewed" by vigil
lance committee composed of his plundered
neiehbors; if forgetful fellow who has
failed to pay his taxes is visited by the sher-
iff,s posse; if q thirsty fellow who has de
frauded the revenue loses his distillery-all
these creatures send their appeals to Wash
ineton. A Southern outrage has been like
Mr.. Weler's famous alba resort in every
case of difficulty.
And now q new field for its application
has presented itself. The character OF the
heartless marauder, whose march was traced
in fire along the fertile valley OF the shen-
andoah, has been seriously compromised by
the slaughter Of the Piegan women and
children, not even infants at the breast hav-
ing been spared by the infuriate soldiery,
whom he urged not only to strike, but TO
''strike hard" More atrocious than that Of
Glencoe was the massacre which at once in
volved the mother and the babe, and butch
cred the invalid who lay dying with small
pox in his lodge. The heart sickens with
horror as we read that, in the little winter
settlement attacked by the United States
troops, not less than six persons were dying
daily under so revolving and terrible
scourge
Now, how do Butler and Sumner and Sher-
man and their crew seek to save the reputa-
ton of their favorite General? Let New
| York contemporary reply Says the Sunday
MerS:
"From all parts of the frontier come alarm
ing reports of intended Indian instructions,
and the telegraph is made to convey frantic
calls for Sheridan. The Indian outrage busi-
ness is suspiciously like the rebel outrage busl-
ness in the South. Whenever the Radicals in
Congress are contemplating some unusually
yillanous scheme to rob or ruin the people,
a crop of terrible outrages springs forth from
the Southern soil. The Radicals are old hands
at the machine. The device Is now being used
to help along the Washington Indian ring and
the battered reputation of Piegan Phil"
The trick is transparent-we woul. add,
it is quite played out, did we not know that
rather than sacrifice Sheridan these men
will proroke the outrages which they now
inrem. They would have done the same
thing at the South, had not the sasacity OF
our people penetrated, and the self-command
of our people frustrated, their atrocious
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