National Republican., 1876-08-26
r11pEEs BANDITS AND THEIR PLANS.

railway anu OTcull ulouutOA SSh0hSS o-
his iron works shinplasters; but he would
like Hendricks to carry Indiana in October,
lust to keep him in countenance for good
fight in New York and Indiana in NoVem-
Der. The Southern States he has insured
to go for him by contract with Wade
Hampton, Banditti Butler, Lamar, & Co.
To carry the South is just as easy as lying
and killing q few negroes in each State.
And this is just the work to which the
"Banditti' is well adapted. 1t kills the
required number without hesitation, and
then hes about the cause of the quarrel.
Its idea of chivalry is visiting where it Is
not invited, the attacking of unarmed men
after having grossly insulted them and
shooting them in cold blood if they dare to
demonstrate. This kind OF chivalric ter
rorism is to carry every Southern State.
Tilden hopes to secure New York and
Indiana, Hendricks State and his own, by
hard swearing and corruption. Hendricks
being Governor of Indiana and TIden OF
New York, they, of course, have much to
do with the machinery of the elections; and
if their proverbial modesty q does not
prevent the exercise of their official intiu-
ence in their own behalf it is fair to antici-
pate a very hot contest. A solid South,
counting one hundred and thirty eightvotes,
with thirty five from New York and fif
teen from Indiana, will crafty Mr.. Tilden's
brightest ambition. These will make three
more than Is necessary to elect. 1t should
not be forgotten that it was Tilden who
counseled the late Oakes Ames "to place
1.-The Credit Mobilier stock where it would
edo the most good" He assured him
that this wheel within a-wheel' arrange
ment, called Credit Mobilier, by which
a few rich stockholders could rob all
the rest including the Government
was perfectly legal and honest.
This gives a good insight into Tilden's
''bottom" notions of honesty. With him
anything is honest which is legal; which
the law cannot take hold of IN q criminal
sense. He does not think it respectable to
be branded as a felon and lodged in the
penitentiary. But any money man can
make or get without bringing up in some
such disreputable domicile is ''honest
money" in the eyes of the Democratic can
didate for the Presidency, and the tact dis
played in the getting of it commands his
approval in the ratio Of its results. And
this is why Tilden is such favorite with
the Southern "banditti chiefs. Butler
proved his honor and chivalry by several
Democratic Congressman on the floor of
the House just subsequent to his Hamburg
exploit He has never been punished,
legally or criminslly, for his acts OF
brigandage there. No jury can be found
to convict him. Probably no State officer
of the law could arrest him without first OBJ
tanning the consent of the rifle clubs. He
walks the earth IN the pride of liberty and
life monarch of all he surveys" and glo-
ries in being friend, advocate and sup
porter of Samuel J. Tilden. He represents
the chivalry, par ereelIence-this man of
blood, this leader of bands Of rufians, who
-despon negroes houses, making widows
of their wives and orphans oftheir children,
and then,,rob their treasures and demolish
their furniture. And why do they do this?
What crime has the negro committed that
at the hands of these drunken mobs? He
has simply dared to attempt to become a
man, to assert his right vested In him by
constitutional amendments, to exercise the
elective franchise. He has dared to aspire
to citizenship, to be an owner of property,
to pay his proportion of taxes, to acquire
an education for himself and his children.
This is all. Is this crime? Yes this is a
crime against the wishes of-whom7 A
class ofpersons who laid down their arms Q
few years ago and gave to Gen. Grant their
parole of honor that they would obey the
laws of the land. They accepted life which
was forfeited and freedom which was all
the more sweet because they did not expect
to receive it just then, upon the pledge of
their sacred honors as the chiyalric SOL
dlers of the South that they would hence
forth obey the Constitution and laws of the
United States. And now they have not
only broken their parole of honor, but they
have broken every amendment of the
Constitution which they swore to respect
and all the laws passed Hereunder. They
have been guilty OF almost every crime in
the decalogue besides. 1t is these perjured
villains, these brawling bandits, who are a
law unto themselves, against whom the
poor negro has offended. Because these
bandits are organized into armed clubs,
because they have dlsarmed the negroes and
rendered them helpless, because they have
so terrified all the ministers of the local
laws that they dare not indict and try and
convict them of their unlawful acts, they
are innocent in the eyes of Tilden and his
associates. This is in accordance with
Tilden's theory, that everything is honest
and honorable that escapes through
the meshes Of the Law. If man is not
convicted of crime, then he is no crimi-
nal, even though he may have bribed or
intimidated the jury to disagree or to &C
quit. This is the Tilden theory; this is the
line of counsel he gave to Mr.. Ames, and
is in perfect consonance with the policy by
which he has amassed his great wealth.
And now we reassert the fact that he pro
poses to expend that wealth in the arming
and organization Of rife clubs in North and
South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi and
Louisiana, for the purpose of carrying
those Che is sure of all the rest of the
Southern) States, and then he will not
spend q cent anywhere in the North out
side of Indiana and New York. These are
his objective points. Look out for him
look out for his banditti. They will die
mighty hard. The prize they seek is no
mean one. They will strain every point,
and must be watched and worried at every
turn. go for EN-