The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-21
Our WASHINGTON Letter.

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UNSATISFACTORY, ID. c., Sept. l3, '76.
Visits of large parties Of colorcd
people from the South are, in this
day of expanded liberty secured by
the triumph of Republicanism, quite
frequent. Washington has now tho
same interest for the cnfranchiscd
slave that it has for the anglo-saxon.
The shackles having been stricken
from his limbs, freedom of thought
and action having been secured for
him, and the ballot having been
placed in his hand, the former bond
man looks upon the Capitol Of his
country and its improvement with
as great solicitude as any citizen
in all this broad land.
The recent arrival and subsequent
promenading through the city of Il
party of colored people, male and
female. from Staunton aud Char
lottcsville, Va, numbering four or
five hundred, reminded us ola scene
in Washington, which was witnessed
by the writer some years before the
late war. The contrast between
then and now, then under Demo-
cratic but now under a Republican
Administration, is so striking that
VIC refer to it. Then II revolt Of
two or three hundred slaves, on
plantations a few miles south Of
Washington, took place, when the
poor fellows, driven to desperation
by the tyranny of cruel masters,
sought to secure their liberty. They
armed themselves with scythes, and
other farming implements, and
marched in body to the North,
seeking escape from bondage. They
were met Il few miles north of Wash
ington, by an organized military
force of white men, were fired upon
many were wounded, aid all were
overcome and captured. a long
rope was procured, and those able
to walk were tied in couples to it,
the rope being connected to wagon
in front, in which we're placed the
wounded, and all under a strong
guard of task-masters on horseback.
This cavalcadc marched down Penn
sylvania avenue in the middle of
hot summers day, the wounded be-
ing exposed to the rays of the sun.
a more pitiablc sight scarcely ever
met the eye of man.
Now, the contrast. In this day,
thanks to the Inauguration of the
Republican party, we have large
bodies of this same race visiting the
Capitol of the Nation, dressed in
their holiday attire, laughing and
happy in their freedom, orderly and
behaved in their department.
and there is no one to modest or "to
make them afraid" Who would
desire that these people should be
rcmandcd to Democratic scritlom!
Let the libcrty-loving white man
see to it that they be not.
Mr.. Ottcndoricr, the editor of the
leading German Democratic paper
of America, the N. Y. Stats Zcitung,
says that "ifTildcn docs not account
for what appears to be do,vnryM
perjury that he is unfit to be their
candidate" &c. In 1854 Mr.. Y.
said "it would either be a political
blundcr, or it would be political
crime, in creating Il conflict in which
the Government would probably per-
ish." He and his friends unhesi-
tatingly "crcatcd "A confiict" rob-
bling the General Government for
the matcrial-and now unblushingly
claims to have been "Cnion man."
But he forgcts that in 1861, at the
Twcddlc Hall Convention, that he
said, "hc for one would resist, UNI
der any and all circumstances, the
Use Of force to cOcrcc the South in
to the Union" That in 'G3, when
the future of the country was en-
shroudcd in funeral gloom, he was
one of the most active in writing
and publishing pro-slavery docn-
and that he endorsed james
Brooks (of Credit Mobilicr fancy
nttcrancc, that Mr.. Lincoln's proc
lamation contemplated "thc cycit-
ing of the slaves to the destruction
not only of their own masters, but
of women and children" That Mr..
'Tildcn approved the uttcrancc of
Mr.. O'Gorman, that "although the
Union may fall, liberty may be pre-
served, and Me State may be sovereign
yd.' Jackson stepped on that doc
trine in '32, but his cgotistical dis
lion dcad-approvcs the
restitution; and although Manton
Marble says Mr.. Tildcn's "position
in respect to the war was never
open to the slightest doubt the
entire solid South asks not, and did
not demand during the war, any
other admission, but that "thc State
may be sovereign They demand
cd but the admission, made by Mr..
Tildcn to William Kent, in 1860,
that the trainers Of the Constitution
left the State with power to snap
the tie Of confederation, as a nation
might break treaty, and to rcpcl