The Portland daily press., 1877-07-06
The Woodstock Celebration.
Gov. Chamberlain of South Carolina
Senator Blaine Sounds an Alarm.

The celebration of Fourth of July at Rose
land Park, Woodstock, called out some ootable
speeches, more especially those of Ex-Gov.
Chamberlain of South Carolina and of Senator
Blaine. DR.. Holmes and Mrs. Mary Clemmer
read poems, ard Hon. John T. Waitt Prof.
Cyrus Northrup of Yale College, Rev. Mr..
Buckley of Stamford, Conn.,, made brief ad-
dresses.
EX-GOv. CHAMBERLAIN's SPEECH
was an exceedingly bitter assault. on the Presi-
dent for bis Southern policy. He commenced
with review of the. Louisiana. and South Caro-
lima settlements" and.after.. ..denouncing them
as unconstitutional and springing from policy
at once shallow and disreputable, and declaring
that the action of the President in making them
was more inexcusable than that of James Bu-
chanan in treating.with the leaders of the Rebel
lion, he proceeded as follows:
We have now seen what are the features of
what is we'll called President Hayes's Southern
policy. L ask no one to go with me further
than the arguments which present shall fairly
carry him. For myself, II take leave to de-
nouDce it, here and now, as unconstitutional
and revolutionary, subversive OF constitutional
guarantees, and false to every dictate of politi-
cal honor, public Justice and good morals.
There is no point, feature or form of this pol
icy thai has support in fair construction of the
Constitution, or an honest view OF the facts
which are involved; and l believe it requires
only CAREFUL examination, unint1uenced by
mawkish sentiment or the cOwardice which
shrinks from attacking the conduct of one who
was chosen by our own party, to convince all
who have ever sympathized with the principles
of the Republican party, that such policy de-
serves, upon all legal and constitutional
grounds, the condemnation which have pro-
n0unon1 If Rut w han w l0ok fnrthor
and inquire what other defences of this policy
are offered, we are lost in a maze of subter-
fuges, contradictions, falsehoods, fallacies and
inanities Conspicuous in this list is the claim
made by The President himself, and echoed by
his defenders, that this presidential policy is in
accord with the platform of the Republican
party, with the Presidents letter of acceptance
and with his known views at the time of his
nomination and during the canvass. l call this
the Chief of subteIfuges, il not OF falsehoods
confess L cannot understand or measure the
audacity which prompts such a claim. When,
where, by whom, before the nomination or after
It, during the canvas or during the long agony
of suspense which succeeded the canvass, will
| you find from President Hayes or any repre-
sentative of him or of the Republican party,
high or low, hint of such policy? 1t cannot
| be found. Never till the country heard with
amszement the first whisperings of the machina-
| tions of Stanley Matthews and the Ohio clique
who stood nearest the President-the baSest
passage nave ever READ IN our poAtioda NE
| tory-did any portion of the public or OF the
Republican party imagine that the President
would enter upon such policy OF cou,se of
action. 1t is impossible to .overstate this gen
| eral fact. Especially is it impossible to over
| state the deliberate, ong-continued, unremit-
ted efforts made at every stage of the struggle,
| from November 9TH to March 4th, to inspire the
| Southern Republicans with fidelity to the Re-
publican cause. If doubts arose, with electric
speed came new assurances that Hayes, if elect
were fighting his battles at the South. Is the
despicable suggestion here made that President
Hayes knew nothing of all this? Sir, it is in
credible. He did know it; and he stood BY,
willing to see men risking, by day and by night,
lives aye, losing their lives by hundreds, to lift
him to the Presidency, upon the lying assur-
ances if what he now says be true, that he