Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-01-22
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PORT BACCO:
Friday Morning, January, %, ..,..,.1875.


ing. AS new or better authenticated faCtS
are brought to view they seem to present
the wrong in a stronger light. All this
seems to be thoroughly appreciated by
the country, and from every section of it
indignant and earnest protests are being
made against the action of the Admins
tration. The Governors and Legislatures
in many States have promptly proteste |,
and the people in mass meetings in nearly
all of the large cities have spoken in
language not to be misunderstood. The
press, with few exceptions, have taken
sides against the President, and some
papers which at first were inclined to de-
fend him because of their party sympathies,
have, since the truth has been made more
apparent, unhesitatingly condemned his
action. We publish this week an extract
from the Boston Advertiser, which last
week condemned the Democrats for all the
trouble in this stricken State, and said
they had nobody to blame for it but them
selves. The 4dcertiser, which because of
these expressions was quoted by our in
dependent neighbor, the Independent, as
being mot far wrong" this week sings an
other song as will be seen by the extract
published, doubtless so influenced by
calmer thought and in the light of the UNI
improbable facts, which the oppressed
whites have all along asserted. but which
have only found their way before the pub
lie through other means within the last
few days. In all these expressions of pub
lie sentiment there has been nothing of
partisan rancor, but all seems to have been
dictated by the Hottest feelings of patri
o.ism. Democrats and Republicans have
stood every where side by side whilst Civ
ing expression to their condemnation.
Whilst all this has been so, the President
has nowhere found defenders, except a.
mong the most malignant of the Radical
politicians-men who seem with every
breath to inhale hatred and malignancy
towards the white people of the South. In
this bitter and untruthful denunciation
of this race. these leaders neither make
friends for, nor do credit to themselves. the
President, or the cause they advocate. This
has been particularly noticeable in the
debates in the Senate. Whilst on the one
hand both Democrats and Republicans,
who veexpressed disapprobation at the
use Of troops in Louisiana, have discussed
the question in calm and statesmanlike
manner, presenting constitutional argu-
ments, which seem to be irrefragible; on
the other side, the Radical speakers who
undertook the defense of the Administers
tion policy, INDUCED in only frothy and
sputtering vituperation of the white peo-
pie of the South, and the Democratic party
as the party of slavery and of the rebel
lion, and which was now upholding and
approving assassination and murder. All
such raw head and bloody bones business
can have no effect among Intelligent peo-
pie who read the papers and know how
utterly worthless is this Chinese-gong
fashion of warfare. 1t may do to frighten
old women and children, but it will not
answer where fragrant violation of a
great constitutional principle is involved.
But perhaps this is, under the circum
stances, the best defense which these po-
litical mountcbanks are able TO make
They have so often won success by these
same tactics that it is not surprising they
should try them again, especially as they
have no other at their command. Indeed,
one is driven irresistibly to this conclu-
sion in view of the disgraceful message of
the President in answer to the resolution
of inquiry of the Senate. We use the
word advisedlv. because we consider the
message disgraceful in every aspect in
which it can be viewed. Disgraceful to
him and the country whose Chief Magis-
trate he is. Disgraceful to him either as
a civilian or soldier--as private citizen
or public magistrate. Disgraceful for its
ignorance. its stupidity, its ISLANDERS, its
subterfuges and its downright untruths,
both in assertion and by inuendo. When
the Mortons, Logans and Buffers hurl
anathemas against the South we are not
surprised, but when the President of the
United States, in grave State paper, does
the same thing, and libels a whole people
asmurderers and assassins without prop
Ct investigation, we have 4 right to say
that message in which this is done is dis
acknowledgement to the man who de
Eberately thus libes his fellow citizens,
and disgraceful to the country that has
elected such man as her Chief Magis
trate. When man shows such an igno
ance Of the laws ofhis country as this me !
sage discloses, in the single fact. among
many others, THAT ne Iustifies the placing
of the army at the disposal of Kellogg to
do his bidding. we have a right to say
that it is disgraceful to him as civilian or
soldier, and much more SO as public
magistrate. When we see him seek ling to
defend himself for sustaining the illegal
order of Judge DureIFr placing Kellogg
in power, on the ground that he (the Pres
flent) had not examined the matter sufh-
GENTLY to know all the facts of the case or
that the orders were Illegal, before using
die army to carry them out, we have
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