National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-07-25

graphs. They should play their full hand
while they are playing the devil with the
country.
The Under and Appeal, of Petersburg, Va,
says: awe entirely approve of the abolition of
the fast mail trains. They were a costly lux
ury and mere Yankee notion" Ever since
it was a mere "Yankee notion" to suppress
the rebellion .and save the Union the name
Yankee attached to any enterprise is sufficient
to condemn it in the eyes Of. such ex-rebel
sheets as the appeal.
Shortly after Lincoln issued the famous
emancipation proclamation Gov. Hendricks
made violent speech against it, in which he
said: 81 do not know whether that proclama-
ton is going to be taken back or not. am
going TO rote 10 take back the first opportos-
nifty get. [Cheers.l 1t uGS a tCieked thing TO
hare iss.cd." The Tilden reform will help
the Governor ''take it back" at the first oppor-
tunity offered.
Samuel ]. Tilden is giant in intellect. He
is a prodigy in effort. He is Hercules in
strength. He is wonder in attainments. He
is as iron-willed as jackson. He is an ADLER
NASoN
as Calhoun. He is as tenacious as Benton.
His courage is as lofty as Clay's.-SGJirsa~
(Mch.) Courier.
The Courier forgot to mention that his
brains weigh six tons and his body only one
hundred and ten pounds, and that it got $3.50
for publishing the advertisement.
The Democracy claim the South as united
in their favor. The unity consists in we'll
organized plan to disfranchise the blacks by
force, intimidation and fraud. They are well
convinced that their present supremacy is en-
tirely owing to the vicious workings of this
system, and nothing will be left undone to
propagate its interests. Upon this subject a
rhymster, speaking to these ex-Confederates,
says:
Twas easier far to win by fraud
Stuffed ballot boxes, murdered men,
Whose blood cries out aloud to God,)
Have paved your way to power again.
Your Northern allies have proved true,
They cringe and mind your beck and nod,
You need not fear the "BOys in Blue"
For they are meath your Southern sod.
When the mysterious. tidal wave Of 1871
swept over the country it for a moment as
tonished the people, but they little realized
what a mass of Bourbon debris it had left
upon the legislative shores of the nation. In
the short space of twenty-four hours nearly
seventy ex- Confederate military and civil Off
GERS were lifted from the obscurity to which
their reasonable deeds had consigned them,
and were forced upon the country as legisla-
tors and guardians of the public welfare.
They came fresh from the scenes of their re-
bellious endeavors, and brought with them
feelings SO hostile to the North and the great
party whose strong arm had subdued them
that at the very opening of the session their
leaders commenced q virulent assault upon
Abraham Lincoln for his conduct during the
war. They believed that they were to ride
triumphantly into the executive and legisla-
tive branches of the Government, and that no
power existed which could thwart such a re-
suit. But when the comments of thirty mil
lion of people were made upon their treason
able utterances, a change came over the vision
of their dreams, and they found that loyalty
was strong AMI ready to resist an insult offered
by its old foe. Impressed with this fact, they
changed their tactics, and commenced fight
of pretentious economy by which they have
crippled every department of the Government.
They altered their cry of "the North is to
blame for the war" to that hollow, empty
hulabaloo of "reform." which they are shout
ing so vociferously to-day wherever they can
catch the public ear. They have struggled
hard to win by system of deceit, whose
shamelessness and mockery has no parallel.
They have digged their own political graves,
and thirty million Of people will bury them
will, M dcpaa6