Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-04-04

rivals. After gazing at il awhile
Turner flung a drop of bright red
on the center of his piece, and the
picture glowed into startling effect.
So / can see Hayes gathering his
Cabinet. There is Sherman, who
will leave q name linked to no
measure or idea-his only record
that he entered Congress poor and
leaves rich. Evarts reminds one
of the Protestant riots in London,
when men chalked on their closed
shutters "No Popery," to conciliate
the mob. One timid citizen, anx-
ious to stand well with both sides,
chalks up "no religion" Amid this
death grapple between Caste and
the Declaration of Independence
Evarts writes on his flag mo prin-
ciples." Then comes Schurz, the
Swiss soldier, always to let. Hayes
gazed at the colorless piece, which
was hardly visible. Suddenly he
remembers slave-hound Devens-
the low monotony of whose life
rose only once into noticeable in
fanny, when, with his own hands,
he put chains on Thomas Sims and
dragged him down State street.
Hayes flung that blood-red drop on
the canvas, and, behold it grows
immortal-the slave-hound Cabi-
net !! Perhaps you will say Devens
sinned long ago; so did Judas
Iscariot. And Judas besides re-
pented and hung himself. If Devens
had done that Judas would have
no right to resent the comparison
But in spite of repentance, and
after 1900 years, / hear of no pro-
posal to add st. Judas to Mark.
Luke and John. No years can
sweeten a slave-catcher any more
than the whole ocean could cleanse
Lady Macbeth's bloody hand. /
can forgive Foote and Longstreet
O'Conor, who voted for slavery
YES, Lincoln, who helped to extend
the area of slave hunting; for |
remember where all of them lived
and we're born. But being base
enough to actually, with his own
hands, to crush back into slavery
the hero who proved his title and
fitness for freedom by the courage
of hight-such hound has, in this
world, no forgiveness. 1t is not
safe, considering the moral training
of the world, to risk forgiving such
a one. A Massachusetts man, IN
the full blaze of anti-slavery truth,
in the City of Claiming, Parker
and Garrison, to volunteer at slave
catching! Such a hound should
ever after be hidden in privacy and
hermitage he has no right to OBJ
trude himself on the disgust of
mankind. Fancy him entering the
Cabinet chamber! Sherman, never
an abolitionist, neither knows nor
cares about his history. Fvarts
receives him with the suave indif-
ference of one who is "everything
by turns and nothing long" Schurz
has neither brain nor heart enough
to understand why slave hunting
should discredit any one, provided
it pays we'll. Key, accustomed,
like all Southerers, to use slave
catchers and despise them. makes
no effort to hide his disgust. Such
a Cabinet-a slave-hound Cabinet
to pilot this ship, tossed on the
hot Indignation of twenty million
Northerners and the tireless hate
of ten millions at the South (! Only
"gush" and idiocy would dream of
such a thing! A gushing thing
was the younger Miss Pecksniff,
but that lovesick girl would not
take passage on such craft.
What name shall we give to the
cool and barefaced assumption
which claims that the Cabinet rep
resents all the elements of our
politics! Where do you find in
it the element which Blaine, Nor
ton and Butler stand for With
out that idea in the forefront of the
canvass Tilden would be to-day in
the White House and the Repub-
licans not only defeated, but hum
bled by their overwhelming ami
hilation. Every other element
appears in the Cabinet. This only
the Hamlet of the pieces omit
ted. There is Evarts, who repre-
sents the neutrals-men so indif-
ferent that, in this battle of giants
and struggle of principles, they
could see nothing either in the
Republican or Democratic party
worth working for. Schurz stands
for the treachery, self-conceit and
morbed office-seeking that rebelled
with Greeley. Key brings in Til
den and secession. Devens keeps
fresh before US the men who ate
dirt and wore collars in the old pro-
slavery days. If the Presidential
canvass had contained only these
forces Hayes would dwell quietly
to-day in Ohio. Blaine and the
bloody shirt elected our President.
During the long doubt of Deem
Der and January the only words
that reached Us from Govern
or Hayes was the assurance
show deeply he felt for the
negroes; how he pitted them if
the count should show Tilden elect
ed y He knew well enough
then what chord Wonld reach The