New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-05-26


citizen TO do his share toward cementng happy Union
In his inaugural address, March :. 1873 he says:
The past four wears. could control events.
have been consumed In the effort 20 restore harmony
Liuit'd and ~ Executive control is ed I'M 1uv
OF them that would be eXerciscdin other state
tur, NIL he eed TO the rcstof- lon Of good feeling
between the different sections Of our common country
Are these the words of aggressiyeness; of appre-
hengon9 What words can be selected from the Cn
cinoati platform, from Gov HayeFs letter Of accept
ance OF from President Hayes's inaugural address,
more equitable more c0uciHatory than these' What
sinister meaning Republican editors may have con-
ccalcd under them do not know. They certainly
never told us no the time that they concealed any
thing; or hat the words meant other than they ap-
peared 70 mean. And l can tell them that we the
people, the readers of the newspapers. meant them
In good faith through every fiber OF ouP souls. And
when Republican editors and correspondents talk
now OF the policy Of force which has
been tried for eight years and proved
failure, they are talking not only mischief but
folly and not only folly hut faisehood. They are
q wing tie he to every honest and intelligent man
among their subscribers and supporters. WHAT
have we tried 10 forccY Gallows prison, fines.
poverty, di-abilitiesl From the day of Lees sur
render until this moment the steady effort Of the
Government and the mind and viii Of the Northern
people have been given o. the rehabilitation Of the
South aud not to It's oppression. our one desrc and
prayer 10 God has been tina, the south should be
heated and its prosperity restored. There has been
NOT the smallest design OF desire 10 encroach ON it,
liberty or to interfere with its self-govenment
Did President Grant speak lie when he said, on the
4th of March, 1873:
The past four years. so far az could control
have been consumed DID tle effort 20 DO store harmony
circHus tauccs.
Did me Boston Jopruol and The Fo,ton Adrerfisa
and other papers of that class speak out on the
9Th Of March aud brand President Grants statements
as lies have not the ISSUES of those dates before
me- but venture 10 say that neither Of those news
papers moved the VIM. OF opened the mouth. or
pceped against President Grants uuhfulne~- in
these assertions. But ii they we're not false in 1873
they are not false i'm s77. II thty nos false, the
papers which affirm that we have tried policy OF
force for eight years. and that tine policy of conca
ton is new are false The sole force winch the
National Government has exercised is legal force 20
prevent Southern citizens from Illegally slaughter
ing each other; and that force IL exercises ln the
North. and viii exercise everywhere and must e&-
erc.se every where on peril Of its own existence
There is but one rule for Massachusetts and for
>ou.h Cdrolua-to seek peace; but peace under hh-
crty and with the sword. II needs must. This is an
More or less than this treason 10 the Republic
ANY man who shall compass or attempt peace with
out liberty, any man who shall attempt to naual-
rate policy OF hate OF injustice toward the south
1t were better for that man that milestone We're
hanged about hi, neck and that he were drowned iu
d depth of the sea.
IchaIieuge The Boston Journal. and The Daily Id
retiscr 10 bring forward ten men in Boston, OF IN
Massachusetts. or in New England, who have AZ
tempted to uaugratc a policy of hatred toward