The Portland daily press., 1877-09-11
Current Comment.

The "fraud'' platform is shivered, and
should be sold by auction for kindling-wood.
Tribune.
Isn't it about time for US to find out, here
at the North, that Our liberties are endan-
gered by the presence of government troops
There are more in our very midst now than
have been in the whole South at any time for
half dozen years.-Norwicb Bulletin.
The Democrats at the North are deeply
dyed In bourbonism. They have lost sight of
every living issue and bound themselves hand
and foot to the carcass of the dead past.
Taking up the cry of the meretricious New
York Sun only raised to delude and mislead
them, they drown the rec "on with their loud
cries of 'fraud, fraud, fraud" They are
Prom no niana a,, n,,hiaat.- and il Is nsc-
less to argue with such madmen; but we re-
gret to see that some of our southern papers
and politicians have become tainted with the
same sort OF insanity, which, if it becomes
confirmed leads to political death. Richmond
VA State.
1t is terrible crisis. The nation holds its
breath. Sober men wonder what the world
is coming to. The very air is murky with
direful political representations. And al
because capable officer, though a somewhat
phlegmatic gentleman has spent perhaps an
hour OF the peoples time without asking
leave OF absence, in attending a committee
meeting. For this constitutes the malfea-
sance In office, if any, for which Mr. Cornell
must be removed, if he is removed, when the
question comes up before the Senate the
body legally constituted to inquire into his
suspension, if he is suspended. The very
head and front of his officicial offending hath
TINS extent, no more.-Bufdlo Commercial
1t is settled, then, that a man who admits
that the rebels erred is not representative
Southerner. He is "trick-mule,' or a
"dirt-eater." But representative southerner
does not concede that he or his lost cause
was or could be, possibly wrong He and
the cause were right then and now. The con-
test is temporarily adjoulled. During this
adjournment, which is sort of truce, the
lrreconcilables will come in for an approprie
tlon and lions share of whatever the lately
despised Uncle Sam may have to distribute.
But, hrst, list, and all the time, it must be
distinctly understood that the Southern man
who admits that the rebellion wfs wrong and
failure ceases to be worthy to be called
son OF the South. In this category we find
Mr.. Key, and he is accordingly derided and
contemned. 1t WIS treachery to the South,
the Democratic South, that he should be
willing to assume charge of the United States
postal service in the administration OF Re
publican President. 1t is infamous that he
should admit that IS rebel he YVES on the
wrong side.-N. Y. Times.
Whenever campaign gets little dull in
Ohio, somebody pulls the venerable William
Allen from his obscurity, and extracts from
him the same old interview. A reporter of
the Cincinnati Enquirer went through the
usual operation once more the other day, and
ascertained that it was "Sam Tiden's mon
ey'' which defeated your Uncle William in
1875. About the only fresh remark in the
conversation is lively one on Mr.. Tilden's
stupidity in writing his letter against granting
Southern claims. "When read his letter."
exclaimed the old gentleman, with the GUS
tomary sulphurous ejaculation, 'I threw the
paper down in disgust, and said, "By-,
he has throttled himself From the
moment OF that letter his chances were
on the wane, and when the critical time
came, the men who sold him his nomn-
alton at st. Louis sold Hayes his Office" This
seems to be complimentary allusion to the
high moral tone of Mr.. Aliens own party in
the South. He even says further on in the
interview, that Tilden bought his nominal
ton OF the Southern Democrats, and the
same persons subsequently sold the Presiden-
cy to Hayes. There is chance for David
Dudley Field. He yearns to impeach somc-
body; why not impeach the Southern men,
bers, and call your uncle William in as a wit
ness?