The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-02-16
A New Leader for the People.

A New Leader for the People.
THE EFFECT OF THE SPEECH OF DIR.
The Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Gazette, writing on Mon
day, says
The Importance of the patriotic
stand taken by Mr.. Dawes can scarce
~ be exaggerated. 1T is sufficient,
perhaps, to state that he has combined
majority in the House of Represen-
tativcs against the pretensions to
statemanship of this administration.
That tho President and his Cabinet
fully appreciate their critical position,
Is manifest from their hasty retreat
from the line of attack to that of hu-
initiating entreaty. Mr.. Dawes was
first fiercely assaulted for daring to
expose the charlatanry of our, rulers.
Among other modes of attack, orders
werc issued TO discharge a large body
of men from the navy yards, accom-.
panied with Instructions to insinuate
to the country that these orders re-
suited from the necessity, the offspring
of his speech. This ruse, contempti-
bic in itself, recoiled upon it's authors.
and left Mr.. Dawes master of the
field. He was thereby enabled to kill
the iniquitous League Island job.
The strategy of the administration
has therefore been reversed. The
discharged men will be reinstated at
once, and tho hounds have Leen "whis
tied back" who we're previously set on
upon the heels of the plucky Massa-
chusctts member. General Grant has
placed the fortunes Of his administra-
tion in the hands Of Sumner, in tho
Senate, and Butler, in the House.
He will find himself in tho minority
uponth Tenure.of.office bill in the
former, and upon his whole financial
humbuggery in the latter. In short,
his ad dministration is already total
failure, and will, in after.timcs, be
olasscd as the weakest that ever at
tempted to guido the policy of this
nation. s. s-s ssr = !. ~. e,st ,-y- r
Viewedafrom this stand point, tsthe
situation" is hopeful in many respects.
Tho "fnancial, plan" of Boutwell, is
as dead as last years herring. Any
increase of the taxes, internal or ex-
ternal, will probab be defeated, and
enormous jobs and other speculations
upon the treasury have received their
quietus for the present session at
least. But, above all, tho power to
further humiliate the States as such
has been effectually broken. For the.
time being, doubtless, the Fifteenth
amendment will be declared to have
been ratified, and insisted to be bind
ing upon all the States,jbut I think l
may safely affirm that beyond q strict
compliance with its single require
ment, the present House, under tho
lead of Mr.. Dawes, will not permit
the government to stretch its hand.
So, the States will be left to regulate
suffrage upon any basis applicable to
all It's citizens (reai or apoohryphal.)
Until the evil can be wholly reme-
died, o judicious, Q xorcise Of this pow.
er will be sufficient for the salvation
Of the Statos,r whose integrity has
been mainly aimed at. And for this
condition of things we are indebted
to Mr.. Dawes He has given the ex-
tremists a blow from which they con
never recover H. Let those who have
sought refuge beyond che lines Of the
Democratic party, and have hung
upon the skirts Of Judge Chase, take
anotherlook I IF we Are to drop our
valued leaders, let us seek for q live
man. one who has shown himself to be
personally honest, indomitably perse-
vering, politically, pluoky, and, be.
yond all, of approved efficiency! yi Il
Hitherto Democratic writer's have
had little olse, "to 60 ppon'' than to
ridicule the bungling, 'illiterate and
presumptuous tyrants OF their coun-
try, argument or,inyeetive being use
less against those who arc all power :.
fnl and unscrupplops. Under such
circumstances IL was 1the Best, If not
the only available weapon. . But the
day is dawning when even the peoplo
Of this great erepublips will coadescend
to listen to reason, and when Demo
cratic journals may resumea serious
discussionl of the eonditioni Of their
distracted country. For all of this
sye gip he riadobtad e Ms. Dagsg: