New-York tribune., 1874-12-23
ANOTHER VINDICATION WANTED.

ANOTHER ERADICATION WANTED.
Mr.. Charles Hays of Alabama-name ever
dear-intrOduccd q resolution in Congress
on Monday raising q select committee to IN
yestigate the condition of affairs In the State
of Alabama, and to inquire especially if there
were any cases of intimidation OF voters III
the recent election. 1t may be remembered
that Mr.. Hays was quito active in spreading
abroad the tru tn concerning the intimidation
and the assassination of Republicans and the
outragcs upon c0lorod voters in tho campaign
which preceded the November elections. lie
communicated upon one occasion two or
three columns of unadulterated truth on
this subject to Gen. lIawley of Con-
necticut. who published the same in
his newspaper with an accompanying voucher
for the high character for integrity and dsin-
terestedness of Hays himself. They were
truths that narrowed the feelings, curdlod the
blood and made tho hair of the average
reader stand on end They were so startling
that the friends of tho Administration who sit
at the receipt of customs, supporting the Con-
sttution of the United States and regulating tho
primaries. said at once, " In this condition of
"affairs wc must elect a Republican majority to
q" the next Congress- and if things 90 on in this
"way there g no telling but that we shall be abb
"solutcly compelled to reGlect Grant
"to keep tho Southern States IN
"order.n The logic of keeping i'll power
party and an Administration which had held
absolute control in the Southern States for
years, upon the argument that the condition
of affairs had become so bad under their rule
that it would not be safo to make change,
was not clear, but the patriots seemed quite
in earnest about it.
TIE TRIBUNE thought it worth while to send
Trustworthy correspondent into Alabama to
learn more of the particulars about Mr llays''
outraces. The correspondent hunted the
State over for them in vain They were
good outragcs-for election purposes They
had shocked thousands of people; per
hans induced thousands to say that
after such showing up OF mans
inhumanity to man they would forget the
Salary Grab. the Credit Mobilicr, the financial
middle. the whole series of bad appointments
indeed, the entire history of the party for
the past six ycars-alil vote the Republican
| ticket. But, unfortunately for Charley Hays,
the assassnatcd persons rose up and denied
the assassination; tho outraged and intiml-
dated colorcd persons "did MT know muffin
Nbout it,r and the whole array OF blood
curdling facts turned out to have no existence
except in the active Imagination OF Charley
Hays. It was too bad to knock out the
UNDERMINING from such noble superstruc-
ture of political outrages, but it could
not be helped. Charley had made it too con-
spicuous /; it excited inquiry inquiry elected
the truth and the truth, while it extended
the fame of Charley Hays, destroyed the fine
fabric of unadultcratcd truth whose CO.
rinthian columns had adorned so many Adj
ministraton organs during the month of
October
The effect was not what the truthful Ala
bama statesman had intended. In the State
itself, where tho entire falsity of the state
ments was known, there was reaction
against the party which undertook by such a
representative and such means to carry an
election. In tho States at the North which
the fictitious outragcs We're most intended 10
affect, there was q similar strong rcvulSl0n
against the party; and the fabrcator OF po-
litcal cutrages saw to his great chagrn that
his weapon was in all respects boomerang.
He returned to Washington at the opening of
Congress with tho reputation not only OF hav-
ing slandercd aud vilifed his State by the
publication of monstrous falsehoods concern
ing her people, but Of having done what in
the eyes of the politician of tie period is
much worse-to wit. injured his party.
He had lost caste with honest men
| by his remarkable compilation Of false
hoods, and with politicians by his horrible
laundering. And so on Monday he made a dash
to retrieve himself. He proposes to have
committee sent to Alabama to hunt up cases
of intimidation and outrage sufficient to fur
nish basis for his campaign tictiOns. Other
men have been vindicated why should not
he bei A committee properly constituted can
20 to Alabama and rake together testimony
enough at least to show that he did not get
all tho outrages he reported, out of his own
brain. If they can find any basis whatever for
any one of his statements it will 60 far to
help him; and what ho wants is to be vindi-
Gated. Just now he is in very bad case, and
pressingly in need of some sort OF vindica-
ton, if it is only very little One by all
means give him his committee and if there
was the slightest shadow of foundation for
any one of his statements let him have tho
credit for it,
N HOUSSAYE'S LETTERS.
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