The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-01-28

put the rope around her neck and she was
taken back to jail
From tile Netc York Sun.
Blaine. the ResurrectiOnist.
The recent amnesty debate was n thing
infamous in itself, and the record of il will
stand as the browning shame of the party
which brought it on. 1t was its last and
fullest confession of criminal failure, in the
use of the largest measure of power ever
given to political party in this country
After more than ten years of absolute sway,
in time of profound peace, this party selects
its most conspicuous member in Congress
to tell us in his most dramatic style, that the
bloody chasm still yawns at our feet, not
only unbridged but unbridgcable.
Partly because of this very failure, the
people voted that party down in 1874; the
present House was chosen with II view to
something better, and Mr. Speaker Blaine
was required to descend from the chair to
place in the ranks of q small minority. But
they are Bourbons all. They know nothing,
and they learn nothing. In triumph and
disaster, in power and out, they are the same.
We have heard much about dead issues;
but these issues which Mr.. Blaine has
disinterred, are not only dead, but utterly
and horribly offensive.
Of the shock and disgust which their re-
production above ground at this time of day
will certainly produce, the resurrectionist
himself must take the responsibility No
doubt he thinks he has use for them. He
intends to bind to them the carcass of the
Republican party, as to body of death, so
that when the people again determine to bury
dead issues, they will find it necessary to
bury the Republican party also, if they desire
to keep the issues down. This may not be
precisely what Mr.. Blaine expects, but it is
precisely what lie will accomplish and if
he had employed all the remarkable talents
he is supposed TO possess in devising n
method ofruining the Republican party, he
could not have more perfectly adapted the
means TO the end.
But il should be remembered that in pre-
cipitatng this needless and acrimonious de-
bate, Mr.. Blaine was not serving the Repub-
lcan party. He was merely serving Blaine.
He was seeking II nomination, not look
ing to the success of II party. lie thought
it was time for him to out-Morton Nor
ton and Out-Grant Grant. They had
made much of Imaginary kuK and White
Leaguers, and a host OF phantoms, which it
suited their convenience to conjure up before
elections. There was absolutely nothing
left for poor Mr. Blaine to operate upon but
Andersonville and although the keepers of
the prisoners and the witnesses, and indeed
the entire issue, are dead and gone, he laid
hold of it with the infinite zeal of II strug.
Cling candidate, who is determined to do
large business on very small capital. Ac
cordingly, so far rs lies in the power OF
Blaine, the Republican party is marshalled,
literally speaking, behind the skeletons of
the dead past, as ii to go into the Presidcn
tial canvass on the deadest of all dead issues.
That such procession as this tends natur-
ally to the sepulchre, there is no manner of
doubt; and we entertain lively faith
that the disguised people of the United
States will this year provide n grave large
and deep enough to contain the whole of
them forever.
Mr.. Blaines device is not of the kind to
win. 1t is shallow, mean and base; and in
comparison with it, the bloody shirt, the
outrage mill, aud Poker Jacks scalawag and
carpeL-bag convention, rise into respectable
ty. The people will have none Of it. They
propose to go about the business of the day
to restore order and peace in the country,
TO revive their commerce and industries, to
reform their currency, and wrest their Gov
ernment from the hands of the unworthy
and the corrupt They only laughed at
Poker Jack. They refused to howl with
Morton; they declined to curse with VIE
lams; and they will not burrow with
Blaine. If his recent political crime-and
the opening of that terrible and bloody book
is nothing less thana crimc--shall have any
effect beyond damaging Blaine, it will be to
bring the canvass of1S7G back to the issues of
1S74-to the radical measures OF reconstruc-
ton, to Grants corrupt dealings with the
South, TO carpet-baggery, bayonet elections,
lawless seizure of States-issues upon which
i'm 10 pl
ell when Democratic House was chosen to
supersede Mr. Blaine's late majority
But Mr.. Blaine, being fairly in the bone
business, was not content with til ghastly
spols of the Andersonyillc bitches. 1t will
be observed that every one of the "histOric
cruelties' cited by him were crueltics intlic-
ted by Roman Catholics. lie eagerly explored
the vaults of the inquistion tondly traced
the ravages of Alva, and hung gloaling over
the massacre OF st. Bartholomew. That
must have been Il moment of supreme tri-
umph to the learned politician. He had not
only placed his skeleton far in advance of
Mr.. Morton's bloody shirt, but he was just
then about two lengths ahead of Grant in
his Anti Catholic development These chron-
icles of the darker ages were sealed TO the
uneducated soldier, and the studious Blaine
was not slow to improve his advantage
But, on the whole, the spectacle is not attrac
tive-this of q reckless demagogue blowing
the embers of dying sectional passions, and
armed with a glowing brand to burn his
mothers church. He might have remember
ed his grandfather Ephraim, the pious beef
contractor of the revolutionary war he
might have remembered the long line of an
ccslors who have fallen asleep in the faith
against which he agtates; he might have
remembered his mother, home, and baptism,
or even those maiden aunts who, with the
Sisters of Charity, still prosecute their self
imposed mission of healing and mercy uIf
der the ecclesiastical authority which he af-
fects to dread; he might have remembered
any or all Of these; but if he did, they were
dismissed as triiles which his vaultiDg ambi
ton would not brook. In the vulgar strife
for Grants old boots there is no room for
either moral or mental integrity
In case MIR. Blaine succeeds in getting the
Republican nomination by making the loud
est and coarscst bid, the country artist who
will paint his picture for the campaign ban
ncrs will have the opportunity OF his life
Let him draw the figure of well fed and
somewhat corpulent gentleman, whose ca
pacious pockets filled with protruding docu-
ments labelled Credit Mobilier Shares"
STOPPING and industriously clawing open u
secluded grave, over Which the grass has
grown green and the flowers have bloomcd
| through MANY O year of peace.