Saint Mary's beacon., 1876-12-21

by ms friends. hut r ridicuies those
comments ON Tilden and STYLES them as
rubbish. yet he lays great stress on
what he terms Republican inconsisten-
cies and quotes Carl Schmz's remarks
during the Greeley campaign. Mr..
Schurz. as well as MANY others who
were not witnesses 20 the numer-
ous outragcs perpetrated in the South
ern States, was slow to believe that civ.
ilized people could be guilty Of such
acts Of violence towards their fellow
men. But when Mr.. Schurz commit
ted the. political summersault ascribed
to him, Ne had not denounced Mr.. Hayes
and branded him as thief before bis
notninstlon and then made haste 70
canonize him Afterwards. And cod
concerning the remarks ascribed to Sem
ator Hale, p fails to inform the public
which Of the two parties was alluded to:
but be this as it may, it only serves to
show his misplaced confidence in the
Southern people, based upon their in
sincere professions of fidelity to the Con-
stitution and their civilized pretensions.
P says that 81 reiterate the stale calum-
nies against the South which he states
'have been refuted and branded as
false by the highest and most unim-
peachable authority" His high au-
thority is the names of few ministers
Of the Gospel, a few bank Presidents
and Judges of the Courts. He claims
that ministers of the Gospel Of all de-
nominations denounce those charges as
untrue, but we fail TO find the Metho-
dist Episcopal church represented on
that list. This being the last stratagem
devised by the Democratic party prior
to the election, it was hoped that il
would do its work effectually: but what
ever OF merit il may be entitled to, a
dozen such ministerial commercial and
judicial memorials will fail to convince
the Intelligent public that ministers of
the Gospel and high officials are infal-
lible or that they never become political
partisans--for instance, Bishop Lynch,
one of signers OF tbs much esteemed
document, also signed one in 1861,
which stated that South Carolina was
peaceably inclined and had no intentions
to rebel. This when she was prepar-
ing her guns TO attack Fort Sum
ter. The notorious Moses was de-
nounced by the Democrats in the vilcst
manner and Chamberlain was lauded
to the skies for striving to prevent him
from becoming a member OF the Su-
prcme Court: but as soon as it became
apparent that Chamberlain codld not be
induced to espouse the cause of the
Democrats, they Withdrew their friend
ship from Chamberlain and centered
their affections upon Moses. brands
as false my statement that bands Of
armed rufiians were organized through
out the South to render the rights of
the negro of no avail, and SAYS that
those States passed all laws necessary
TO protect them in those rights. Now,
they passed only such laws as were
necessary To make their State laws ac-
cord with the Constitutional Amend
ments, and will say to r that while |
believe the statements OF Sheridan and
Chamberlain to be true. vet the most
convincing proof comes from Demo-
cratic sources. Hon. Reverdy johnson,
one of the retained defenders of the
ku-klux, denounced the enormitles
practised. by them in South Carolina
by saying, They are shocking TO hu-
manity; they admit neither of justifica-
tion nor excuse: they violate every OBJ
legation which law and nature impose
on man Representative Lamar said
concerning the Hamburg massacre -
" Through all the uncertainty which
cXasperations and exaggcrations have
thrown around this subject, there Is one
fact which CLEANS out acknowledged.
or, il not acknowledged, is indisputable.
II is that body of white men did, with
out authority OF law put TO death a num-
ber of black men who had been taken
pri>oners-l mean who had been cap
tured and deprived OF their libcrty-but
who were not prisoners in the legal
sense of the term, inasmuch as those
capturing them had no right under the
law to deprive them of their personal
liberty. Now, sir, | wish TO saw here
IN my place-and what say here Just
as 1T falls from my lips and falls upon
the reporter notes Is at once sent
throughout the South. and every con-
stituent of mine, in every home and
hamlet, viii read what say: and even
II were base or ignoble enough to ut
ter here what | would swerve from
there, as has been falsely charged
against Southern men. the Record would
always convict me--in my place here
and with the responsibilities surround
ing me, | assert that no excuse or pal
laton can possibly be found for these
outrages aud this eaybarism." The
Meridian Mercury of July 18th, 1916,
in speaking Of the campaign of 1878
said, Lamar and others who wanted
TO dress up in nice starched and ironed
white shirt that would shame the bloody
shirt, established laundry at Jackson
on the 4th of August, and a great many
patronized 1t and came out in SNOWY
white fronts 10 present hemselvc> cred
itably before the Northern public sem
tment. In their party pow-wow of
that day. disregarding the deep under
current of public opinion. they declared
by formal resolution against the White
Line policy. We had sounded the depths
Of that under-current and we knew IT
would not do. In heart we felt with
the platform, but our better judgment
assured us that the canvass must be lost
on it. We denounced the platform upon
the instant and fook rAaf care re eorh
that LaHar's speeches npon kis National
repsfatsea sAosia net rsi. our eanrass."
Again the same paper says, I'VE have
GOT the State; we know how we cot il;
We KNOW how To keen n. and WE ,n4srl