National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-05-03

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II is noticeable that whenever. of late, q
Republican gets little shaky with fright,
and exhibits signs Of desire to make terms
with the enemy, he differs with his party
in Congress on one or two occasions, and
then makes a pilgrimage to the South in
order to see for himself the condition Of the
Southern people. He has it announced
through the press and by telegraph that he
is going, and his progress is duly chroni-
cled as he passes along. Chosen, oily
toDgued citizens meet him at each lsnding
and introduce him to the authorities and
the institutions. His journey is almost an
ovation. He is rather amazed that people
can leave their business long enough to
pay so much attention to q stranger. In
timating as much, he is soon made to be-
lieve that it is only on especial occasions
and upon the behalf of the most distin-
guished and influential citizens that these
sacrifices are made.
If he is at all susceptible to fattery-and
who is not 2-this settles him he is goner.
Led captive at his will is poor way to
express it. His consequence and import
ance Immediately come over him as they
never did before, and visions of the Presi-
dency float past his imagination with a
strong Southern support. He is now all
attention. and friend "Oily Cannon"
pumps him full, and when he leaves he
fortifes him with letters of introduction to
the right chap at thu next point of exami-
nation.
These "Oily Gammons" arc trained to the
business, and they do it up properly. The
visitor leaves them with the impression
that he is, in their opinion at least, the only
man who can save the South, regenerate
her and deliver her from the iron rule of
the carpet. baggers. This is all very pleas
ant 1t is as beautiful as the reverie of
love sick maiden who is awaiting her cava-
lier.
This leads us to remark that Judge VIM.
D. Kelley has just returned from this pill
grimsge. He has been gone nearly eight
weeks, the greater portion of which time
he spent in Florida, and what he does not
know of the condition of affairs in the en-
tire South it would be utterly impossible
for him to learn. He is now busily en-
gagged in doing penance for having voted
for the bill to protect electors at the last
session. What there is in it To be ashamed
of: the Judge did not inform US. AS it
took nothing from the privileges of the
whites, and secured nothing to the blacks
l,,,t tI,oN fl,o ruI,
assured of without it, if they choose to vote
the way the precinct bully demands the
real injury which the bill would cause to
any well-regulated community if it had
become law is not easy to discover. 1t
was not probably required in the section
visited by Judge Kelley, for we observe
that his route carefully avoided Gibson
county, Mobile city, Coushatta parish and
Vicksburg, But where it was not needed
it could certainly do no harm. Why then
apologize for the vote?
The Judge discovered what is the trouble
in the South. 1t simply wants more money.
He thinks his three-sixty- five bond elastic
exchange parachute and compensation-c
rency -double-acting- force-and- plunger bill
would have done the business for blacks
and whites, rich and poor. He is sure it
would, and he says the Southern people
think so, too. That settles it. They give
us no idea of the manner in which they
would obtain the bonds without the money
of which they now stand SO much in need.
Probably they have not thought that far.
Their idea of more money is just like their
idea of more rain. They think it would
issue alike to rich and poor, as the rain falls
upon the just and unjust, without any guild
pro quo. 1t is greatly to be feared that the
Oily Gammons of the South have put the
Presidential maggot into the Judges head.
Ifso, he is no doubt as Eighty as the Prince
of Denmark.