The daily gazette., 1876-09-28
Black ora Garfield.

A SHARP REPLY TO THE GENERALs SPEECH
WHAT JERRY KNOWS ABOUT THE DEAD
ISSUES.
When General Garfield sent Judge
Jermiah Black copy OF his speech re-
viewing the political issues OF the last
one hundred years in this country, with
applications more or less pertinent to the
pending Presidential canvass, he stump-
led into the wrong pew. Judge Black
acknowledges General Garfeld's coult-
esy in an open letter, which excorlates
the latter's argument most unmerciful
ly. The Judge is perfectly at home on
the slavery question dissinterred by
Garfield, and does not hesitate TO devote
a few octave pages to fixing upon New
England the responsibility for the IN
PRODUCTION of negroes into this country.
He goes further, and endeavors to show
that Massachusetts condemned Indians
as well as African slavery. Coming
down, however, to modern times, Judge
Black WAKES warmer and strikes more
telling blows. The Republican party {,
he claims, has dishonesty used the pow
er it unsurped during and Immediately
after the war. This, it is urged, is the
most corrupt government this side OF
Constantinopls. You may take the
rottenest monarchy in Europe, 60 over
its history for a hundred years and pro-
duce the worst act, you.can find Of fraudu-
lent spoliation upon its people, and "a
do not show something worse committed
here under the auspices OF the party now
in power, will give up the case. He
does not wonder that General Garfield 8
assertion that the Republican party will
punish its own rascals was received with
laughter from the republican side OF the
He use. for it is well known that dishon-
esty is protected, encouraged and re-
warded by the highest authorities in this
government. The Southern policy Of the
administration, the political enslave-
ment of Louisiana and the Credit Mo-
bilier and whisky ring frauds are cited
as cases in point. These things fare not
to be defended by waving the bloody
shirt. After an elaboration Of these
points and good tempered but stinging
review of General Garfield's own share
in the bad record of the post-bellum Re-
publican party, Judge Black asks and
answers his own questions in these sug-
gestive words:
cannot prescribe to you how unpleas-
professions OF a desire for peace. Why
ling we shall have it? You need but to
cease hostilities and the general tran
guilty will be restored. You refuse to
do that, because peace would endanger
your party ascendancy. To maintain
your plunderers in power you have uni
formly resorted to the bayonet-you have
made civil war the chronic condition of
the country-wherever you could you
have displaced liberty, fraternity and
equality, and given nothing instead bat
infantry artillery and cavalry; You are
at this moment openly engaged in pre-
pairing your battalions for armed inter-
vention in the struggle of the people
with the carpet-baggers. What makes
this worse is your closing declaration
that you will take no step backward.
There is to be no repentance, no change
of policy. and consequently no peaceful
or honest government. Onward, you
say is the word. Onward-to what? To
more war, more plunder, more oppres-
sion, more universal bankruptcy, heav-
ier taxes and still worse frauds on the
pubic treasury,