The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-08-30


augursting the work Of ref ,rm, the represent
atves OF the federal administration demon
strated their friendship. for organized
raScality and ruf1anfsm By accusing Gov.
Chant erlain of leaning toward Democracy,
and condemning him for refusing commits
sions TO such political reprobates as Whipple
and Moses. Can any man feel surprised That
outrages should spring out h a soil? Can
men expeci 10 sow the wind and not reap the
whirlwind? No Christian or even civilized
man Will defend the deeds of lawlessness that
disgrace SO manv states of the South, nor can
he defend the political and moral ouIrsges
mat nave been their chief provocation. what
continuation OF Grantfsm and the rule of such
men as casey, Packard, Durel, Kell Ogg, Ames,
Whipple aud Moses? Gan the election of an
other republican president bring orcer and
peace and honest government to
the S1sot sorty tried people Of the South
Republican president and r publican Con-
gress for nearly eight years, and ct the chic is
OF the party, VIM represent the south as In
perfectly deplorable condition, tell us that the
continuance OF the same party 10 power is alb
solutely necessary for the welfare OF the peo-
pie, aed especially the colored race President
Grant himself tells US That mississippi is
governed to-day by officials chosen through
aud and violence, such as would scarcely oe
accr oil ed 10 savazeS, much less TO a civilized
and christian peoI le," and Senator MorIonis
outrsg- committee, with Senator Boutwell, at
its head, dec ares in its late congressional re-
port that the state which last year was in q
condition of peace, is now so given over to in
curab'e anarchy alter ten years trial of Re-
TGCOOSlTQCIlO0,
OBJ iged TO rtmand 1T to rritorial govern
meut! Gentlemen, could there possibly b.
stronger argument In favor of a change of adj
minlstrat1on? Could any fact stand out more
pal pably on the back ound OF the past, than
the abs Lutte need of a new and wiser policy,
anu new and wiser men TO administer IL? Tue
result OF Republican rule in fact, has b en- 10
array the two races of the South in deadly
hostility, instead OF making them lends and
brethren. In toes aies containing the largest
negro element and under Republican rule,
violence and disoru er have largely prevailed
since the close of the war; while in the con-
Servative and De mOcratic states, order and
pesce have been the Dormal condition OF the
people. What we now wants a new dispen-
satioD, which shall blot out the color lioe in
politics, softeu AID subdue the antagOnisms
so long fosI cred by white demagogues divide
the colored vote between the parties OF the
South as the white vote is ready divided,
and thus make the people OF the states la ely
in revolt, In deed and in heart, one ps ope.
All this, of course, must be The work OF time;
but the agencies can be wisely set TO work
solve the problem OF y stored Union by
com pletely rem Jving all the causes OF strife.
TILDRN AS A REFoRMBR.
But the question is asked, ais Gov. Tilden a
genuine reformer? Would he prove himself
morally trustworthy in the high Office to
which ne aspIres?" The Republican leaders
answer the question with very indignant
negative. They make the gravest of charges,
both against his 10y atty and his integrity, and
they attemp: TO sustain them by very remark
able proofs. For example, they introduce the
testimony of the New York Times, ana other
leading journals, which fatty give the lie 10
their current cslumniss by their state
ments four or i've years ago. when
Coy Tlden o,, s01 making his mag
DO the Repub lean lead rs believe they can
convict him of the frightful crimes with
which hey charge bin on the evidence of inn
peached wi nesses? They a so attempt TO max
out their case on the testimony of Demo-
cratic newspapers which abused Gov. Tiiden
before his nomin alton, when he was likely to
be in the way OF their fayorIte candidate,
while these same newspapers ara now ZEAL
on " supporting him, and thus prsctic ally
confessing that they did not speak the truth
| in the fierce tiatribeS they had uttered pre-
vious TO the St Louis convention Gen. Har-
rison the othe' day, in his Danville speech,
showed his appreci ation of the popular INTEL
lgence by paradiDg thi slrt OF evidence and
expecting IL 10 be bell we'd by his audience.
But let us refer very b ieiy to some of these
authori les tn at Gov TildsD Is se.essiOnist.
| den. Harri son makes this charge, as e made
1t four years ago against Horace Greeley; ind
IL is as fal Sc now az il was then. IL is ne5OnIy
| mt ne, but am sorry t. believe that Gen. Har.
rison knowsit 10 be- so. There is difference
| of opinion among American st smen low
as there was st the beginning OF the gov
eminent, on the question OF Sta Rights ana
Federal supremacy. Gov Tlden, | believe,
| belongs TO the Democratic or Jeffersonian
school of stat smen, and OF course rejects the
constitutional theories of Hamilton and the
federalists: but that he is secessionist in the
sense of dlsloyalty to the national flag, on that
| he recognizes the right of a state to go out oil
| the I'm on at its own sweet will, with no DOW
er n the nation to hold IL in its place. is puI
ven uo2. rms rs NO m ma ,a OF opinion
| Tide was actively on the side of the Union,
| ing an honorable part by his influence and
| money in sending M On I'm TO the field, and tx-
| ertin2 himself in holding in check the di. 10y
al element IN his osn par y, when
| also the friep d anu adviser OF Lincoln. This il
my commentary upon the beautiful mosaic
Of mingled metaphysics and pettriogSiDg
which Gen. Harrison so artfully weaves
together in The hope of showing
the disoyalty of the Democratic can
ddaie in this Cow eamPs ssn anot her
leading counsel for the or dit mobilier, and
| gave his opinion 10 favor of the legality OF
the scheme. GOV. Tilden is an eminent law
yer, and has had great experience in the man
| agement of railroad cases. 1t was not straU &c
| that the Union Pacific Railroad Company
should take his as 20 is eg, right
the members OF the com lany,. fol-
the purpose Of taking charge
AS a naked legal question, think ii is agreed
| among lawyers that the company had the
| right. l have not examined the evidence in
| the case recently, but If Gov. Tild=n gave that
opinion as a lawyer, L do not see that it con.
| victs him of any high crime. II he advised the
| company that IL had the right, through the
| m achineiy called the Credit Mobi Ter, to rob
| the treasury of millions, let the charge be
| SO ua.e ely made. and let the proof be produced
| Inc curious fact is that Republican politicians
| should all ude 10 this question at all. with a
single exceptio the representative men and
| eminent Christian statesmen who auctioned
| of their consciences to this great corporation
| were members of the Republican party. They
gave no opinions as to the legality of the
scheme, but they prostituted their political
and official influence to the base gre ed of gain
/ by personally joining in a gigantic fraud up.
| on the national treasury. or this fraud Gov
| Iild- n is not guilty; aud 1T seems to me that
| II the Republican leaders in this canvass had
| taken counsel of their prudence hey woCi ID
| have studiously avoided any allusion to g
| transaction with which their party relations
| are so exceedingly delicate and ltender.
| TILDEN's FIGHT AGAINST TAMMANY.
| notice one further charge, namely, that
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