Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-08-24

vi at icaSt of,VUU VOteS. IL SHOWS furthCr
that if the Democracy does as usual on its
own account this year We will carry the
State by 5000 majority, and if the Lib
cral Republican party can even moderately
we'll fulfill its expectations, the vote Of
the State will be cast against the Admin.
istration party, both in October and No.
vember, by larger majorities than have
ever been heretofore known in her history.
GRANTS SOUTHERN POLICY SIMPLY IN.
FERNAL.
There is another branch, however of the
domestic policy Of the present Administra-
ton, which has perhaps more strongly in
duced the present political movement
against it than any other, for it comprises
within itself the wrongs and villainies of
all others. The condition of the South
has at last aroused universal attention and
almost universal indignation. Than un-
happy section is at last recognized by a
portion Of our common country, and as
such is entitled to an equality before the
law with all other sections. Gen. Grant
was elected to the presidency exclaiming,
" Let US have peace" but the cry has been
cheat and dclusion. There has been
no peace for the helpless people of the
South They have longed for it, and
prayed for it, but it has not come. A
worse form of war than marching columns
has preyed upon them. 1t has been a war
Of robbers, spies and jailors. say with
out fear of intelligent contradiction, in all
that goes to destroy the prosperity of
country and crush the welfare of its peo-
pie, the administration of public affairs in
the South for the last three years has been
the worst, the most truly Internal ever
known in the history of cizilizcd people.
1t is subject on which have bestowed
an earnest attention, and with which
have made myself familiar. During the
last session of Congress 1 demonstrated
from official proofs that system Of plum
der had been persued under the protection
and approval Of the present Administra-
ton, by which the entire eleven recon-
structed States of the South had been
Impoverished, and a majority of them made
bankrupt. The debts, and outstanding
obligations, amounting in the aggregate to
at least s500,000,000, have been fastened
by official thieves on the Taxpayers Of that
blightcd region for the purpose of aiding
in this wholesale robbery by reducing the
Southern people to silence and submission.
While it was going on it has been falsely
assumed that they were in lawless frame
of mind, and must be placed under laws
as despotic and infamous as an Austrian
edict against Hungary in 1S49, or Brit
ish act of parliament against Ireland in
the last century. The true policy of the
bandits prevails from Virginia to Texas.
Wherever the touch of this Administration
and its followers has been felt, it has been on
the money of the people, or their lives aud
liberties, and in majority of the States
both. They have not only had their sub
stance eaten out by adventurous scound-
rels, but they have been deprived in their
own persons of every American right.
Their property is not only at tho mercy of
these vagabonds, but under the legislation
of the past few years any husband or ia.
thcr, wife or mother, son or daughter in
the entire South could be consigned indcf.
initely to prison on the mere suspicion
of any brutal or depravcd spy, whether
white or black, there to lie without hope
of speedy trial or release on bail, until
those who had deprived them of the bene.
fit of the writ of habeas corpus either
turned them out or packed jury for their
conviction.
POWER OF THE SOUTHERN APPEAL.
When I recall and dwell upon these
appalling crimes against liberty and against
common rights of humanity, I can't won-
der at the strong and bitter cry which
comes up from the South for anybody to
defeat the reelection of the very man who
has inspired them, regarded them with
grim and heartless satisfaction, and in
may instances committed them himself,
The man who is drowning, or who sees his
wife and children pcrishing in flames must
not be censurcd for adopting any method,
not criminal in itself, by which to save
himself or all that is dear to him. Ihave,
therefore, listened with perfect patience to
the voice of the South in this crisis, know
ing as | do, her extreme and immediate
necessities. Her earnest appeal for the
nomination of Mr.. Greeley has been re.
garded by her friends in the North as the
last despairing cry of brave and noble
people reduced to hopeless extremity,
beholding, as they think, one more chance
to save themselves from ruin Infinitely
worse than death. 1 fervently pray God
that this hope may be realized, and many
a Northern man will suspend his differ.
ences with Mr.. Greeley an account of the
people of the South who would not do so
on his own. They believe the election Of
Mr.. Greeley will afford them relief, and in
that behalf they have demanded his nom-
ination. 1t has been accorded more in
Difference to their candition and their
wishes than to any one cause. If Mr..
Greeley under these circumstances should
be elected, he viii stand pledged by the
strongest obligations that ever rested upon
an honorable man to bcstow upon the South
the blessings of just, kind and fraternal
policy of Government. If he did not do