National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-07-28

more expensive game than he was few years
ago. A Southern gentleman can no longer
pursue the pastime of shooting him down in
cool blood, without raising a racket from
Maine to the Gulf. 1t is going to cost some
thing hereafter to work off animal spirits by
butcheripg negroes. 1t may cost man for
man.
While the Democracy is bowling its lungs
sore for withdrawal of United States troops
from the South, it might be well to remind
them that more negroes have been murdered
in the past ten years in the South than white
men have been sacrificed to the merciless
butchery of the Indians in the West. The
former were slaughtered in civilized communi-
ties, while the latter died among a savage race.
1t is we'll to keep these things in mind.
It is amusing to see how quiet the press is
respecting the administration of the Interior
Department under Secretary Chandler. When
that gentleman first entered upon the duties of
his office some of the prominent journals made
startling prophecies about the result of the
selection of the great Michigan statesman, but
now they are either silent or fulsome with
praise. The truth is that Secretary Chandler
when he went into Office selected such men as
Solicitor General Gayler, Commissioner Smith
and others, who have placed that Department
in the finest condition of any under the Gov
eminent, and against whom the breath of
scandal dare not now be breathed.
The ablest Democratic paper in Albany
proves how unpopular Governor Tilden is at
home. After speaking of the fact that his
own town has not yet ratified his nomination,
it says "Mr. Tilden is utterly unfit for the po-
sition. His vanity and egotism, which never
were go largely developed as since he became
Governor, would be vastly increased and inten-
sified by his elevation to the Presidency, and
he would not be surrounded by Democrats of
character and selfrespect, but by narrow
minded and selfish little creatures from all
parties, as he has been and now is at Albany.
His want of decision and executive ability are
as conspicuous as his possession of low cum
ming and an ability for political intrigue"
The Sandusky Register has this to say of the
gushing Lamar, whose credentials are sealed
by the blood of black Missssipians "While
all due credit should be given Congressman
Lamar for admitting the unjustifable atrocity
of his white friends in the Hamburg massacre,
1t is well to remember that no other eX-rebel
now in Congress is so thoroughly the repre-
sentative Of Southern outrages, White-L League
prostitution of the ballot-box and intimidation
of poor blacks, as this same Lamar. His croc-
odile tears at the grave of Sumner, the victim
OF bully Brooks, or his apparent grief at the
Hamburg atrocity, cannot and should not blind
us to the fact that Lamar has been elected and
now claims seat in the Senate of the United
States on a local majority obtained by the
grossest frauds upon and violation of the bal
lot-box."
The Republican party has commenced to IN
load the men who have sat like an incubus
with its suffocating anheation upon its giant
frame. This is not only policy, but it is justice
to the honest and loyal men within its ranks.
The party has suffered more from the poisoned
tooth of pretentious adherents within the walls
of its cit adel than has from all the onslaughts
of its avowed enemies. We have had trouble
and vexations in Mississippi which ought to
have been forever wiped out by discsrding the
disturbing elements. We have had heavy trials
in South Carolina by system of gush and
weak kneeism which shouldihave been blotted
out by speedy political chastisement of those
creating the discord. And then in Texas, by
the lukewarm ant. .treacherous policy of Davis,
the party has suffered almost irreparable
loss. The State of Texas could have been
strong and mighty in the coming struggle had
1t not been for the fact that Governor Davis, in
whom the party con6ded its highest trusts,
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sentative in his administration, counting the
favor of the White Line element and persecut-
ing the loyal and staunch men of the party,
whose supreme aim was to advance Republican
interests throughout the great Commonwealth.
The time has come when firm and positive Re-
publicanism must take the helm of the old
ship, while the weak kneeism and namby-
PANTY element takes back seat. Men,work-
ing men, are needed ;ifor.gushers and conser-
vatives we have no active use.