The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-03
Characteristic Expressions
by Wendell Phillips.
LET US HAVE GRANT OR BUTLER.
A Voice That Still Cries
Out for War.
Unqualified Condemnation Of the Third Term
by Senator Dawes.
BOSTON, June 2, 1875.


respondent did not require the application OF an
nterrogatory force pump to draw out his opinion
regarding tho "thrd term letter. for he seemed
to be entirely prepared to discourse upon the sub
ject, and he did, ana not only upon that but upon
what he terms the 'issue OF the present time"
Mr.. Phillips said 81 like the letter. IL does NOT
change my Judgment. however, which Is that,
all things considered, Grant Is emphatlcally
the man for the next President. scout all tha
prattle about Cancellation. We babbe like
children about peace, before we have secured jus.
tlce; we exhort each other TO forgive before the
sinner has even protested repentance. Foreign.
ers in the Senate who never knew aught, but
what Is on the surface OF us or our institutions,
may chatter nonsense: gallant soldiers emil
grating South may echo 1t; natives in higher
office still may carry this ollypop from Southern
city to city; careless editors may cry, amen; but
the fact remains that the white South has never
forgiven her conquerer and never accepted the
first idea OF the Declaration of lndependence; the
idea which alone justlfles the cost and carnage OF
i've terrible years.
THE soUTHERNER tanned.
The wild Southerner has been tanned; he Will
never fight the nag again. The cunning OF the
mailman Is lett. He seeks TO write over the nag
It's old lie. Calhoun taught. and every white
adult in the South believes TO-DAY. that this IL
white mans government. Though you bray them
this folly out OF them. Heaven lorold tna. should
do the white race OF The south such foul wrong as
to believe otherwise. l respect their sincerity,
their persistent loyalty 10 coHviction remember
the long suffering, the faithful Cavalier whose
party ended only when It's last adherent sunk int
the grave. Tnough tle glorious Roundhead con.
quered and had in the name OF justice and liberty,
the right to conquer, God and human nature being
his allies still all honor to the stout English
hlond rhat never shifted gIdp9 nor traded IN con.
vlctions. l will not do suen d1scredit to the Eng
ish blood this side OF the OCEAN as TO believe that
we cannot show as stout hearts here
10 day, spite or generals, Senator'S, Vics
Presidents and cabsters in verse and
prose. The South holds to-day the same souls
unsellsh, untlring. faithful to death-as England
did la $780, 1855 and Ills. The North will yet ind
her Somers, Hampden and yane. Does blood here
run thin that the stout conviction which In Eng
land IL took hundred years 10 root out sells out
and skulKs away in ten years. Those who tank 50
do not know the South. The men who followed Sher
man In the march to the sea, Will they dance Wits
WILSON on BOSE LEAVES
back againf You who think 90 not know the
North. The personal ambition or party indirer-
ence when Killed the Force bill revealed Northern
weakness Congress showed Its un1tness 10 deal
wltn the epoch. We needed statute which
showed the nation equal to the hour and It's wish
IT, 1t Is always dangerous TO trust men wholly.
Better far TO aid, direct and inspire them oy laws
adequate to the crisis. Wnen Congress refused
the Force blu, she left the true men OF the nation
with one alternatve-we must take Tor
President man who Is himself force
blll-that Is, Grant. / am certain that
under no other man can the republican party hope
for success. II we must be baked and put back
let IL not be by the republicans. bat as England
xwhU m
revolution OF 1858. Johnson's treason In 1902
saved MS. Democrats treason In 1876 may savt
us again. republicans treason would be douply
dangerous. with taese views demand Of Grant
that he lead US again to victory.
BLAME AND MORTON.
Blaine and Morton are strong men, hut they
cannot carry the nation. II Grant does not give
us the use OF his name, IN my opinion, The demo
Gratis Will elect their President. That means ths
white South victorious as ! was ridicued for an
tlclpatlng 10 1866: 1t means civil rights trampea
under oot; the Confederate debt recognized and
paid in part or 10 FUN Il means compensation for
tue slaves whom TIC war freed. Congress viii
discuss these issues tor the next four years. the
North, with a sensitive pocket may rally and pre-
vent the iul success or these schemes, but the
very discussion viii carry down our bonds twenty
per cent n every market know the
OBJECTIONS TO THIRD TERN"
remember points Ol p@lC1 dAd hAaklr dSkS W
the administration acts to which could neither
give sympathy nor support, acts which were
nel.ncr statesmansnlp nor those or an honest
man; bot the work Of this era ia to stereotype
into statutes and Memorable customs the priuci
pies when carried oar nag TO the Gull; TO bio
from American ciyil life the distinction OF race
70 make our Republic cease 10 be a sham aud ou
citizens a herd or hypocnresi to practice whai
our fathers have dis|usted tbs wora by emptIl
protesting; to make GOOD the noble BOAST that oui
nag everywhere projects every citizen.
GRANT ASD TIE NEGRO
claim for General Grant that no man In public
life mas done more than he mas 10 help on thl
time OF decent consistency between profession
and practice. / support the man VINO made peace
IN New orleans rather tnan the committee which
traded il away. The fate OF the negro - still the
problem OF our politics. Tnore Is no pubic mas
wnon / should feel periec " safe % t,nsting ~
win. But compelled To choose, ulysses Grant ~,
by all odds nv choice ior tee next PRESIDENT. u
the superstition or TWO terms shuts hlm on ron
the race sholld witness, with profound ANXIETY,
the success oi any man who opposed tue foree
bill.
III New England PRIV le1ed 10 iurnish the
President, no friend OF tae negro race ana q
prompt national pachcauon would dream " sug'
Resfiag any other name tnan mat " Gensral u r.
Batter.
ruE NEW MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR'S OPINION
PrrrsrrELD, Mass, June 2 1915
Mr. Dawes, the new MASSACHUSETTS senator,
an unequiyocal and enthusiasts opponent
everything LOOKING toward a tnird term Press
dent. II an Thoroughly opposed 70 H. and AWAY
have been.p nc remarked TO your correspondent
wnen questioned on the snoject today he said
further that Tor the past year ne mad always re-
garded IL as dangerous TO the republican party
that President Grant had not come out and showed
his aand. .'NJw that he has Spoken" added
4 Mr. Dawes, emphat.c1ily, ~ Is more 20 be re-
orettcd than ever that he has DOT SPOKEN Ia an
\ unmistakable manner instead ofIn
the EoUrvocAL LANGUAGE
4 contained ia MS letter. The question in mr. MAD
IL moe complicated ana unsettled than ever, and
IL would have been much better for the party II ne
nad mover written sncn q letter. These are my
4 on,nions In a nutshe y empha,lzed the Senator.