The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-20

Radical conspirators and their organs are
exceedingly anxious that the democratic
party shall quietly acquiesce- in the multi
piled crimes and frauds by which r. B.
Hayes was elevated to the presidency of the
United States. In this, however, they can
not be accommodated by the Sentinel.
There are some wounds which never heal.
The radical party to elect Hayes stabbed the
constitution, and the wound still bleeds.
As the months and years roll on its dumb
but closed lips plead more eloquently. There
are crimes for which there can be no atone
ment The perjuries that were committed
to make the Louisiana returning board
potential can not be obscured. They grow
in hidiousness, they defy description, they
paralyze hyperbole, and exaggeration hides
its face because the English language is in
capable of describing their enormity. There
are some sins that infinite forgiveness can
not reach. but the beetled-browed villains
who schemed for the overthrow of Tilden
and Hendricks may not be included in the
list, though they defied Heaven with per-
juries, and earned seat in the front rank
of traitors to civil liberty.
The democrats in the campaign of 1876
had in view the reform of the government
The necessity of reform was universally
recognized. There was absolutely no con-
trariety of opinion upon that branch of the
subject. The popular majority of more than
a quarter of a million.of votes indicated
with sufficient emphasis the unaniIaity of
sentiment that prevailed. Well, why has
not the reform for which the people prayed
and voted set in? Simply because fraud in
stead of ; votes triumphed. Because
the Louisiana returning board reversed
the decision of the American people be-
cause the cartridge box was more potential
than the ballot-box; because Grant, who is
now receiving the approval of aristocrats
who never had a pulsation in sympathy
with the liberty of any people, decreed that
the fraud should be protected by federal
bayonets. Radicalism triumphed by grand
coup detat, in which perjury played as con-
spicuous a part as did the guillotine when
Robespierre ruled the destinies of
France and the streets of Paris
were slippery with blood. The radical
conspirators and organs now demand
that democrats shall accept the situation
and remain quiet. 1t would not be more
impudent for the world to approve of
Judas, the betrayer of Christ, or for Ameri-
cans to applaud the treason of Arnold. As
the case now stands there is no reform in
any department of the government. Why
not? Simply because those who are admin
istering it are, with few exceptions the men
who b:ackened its good name with
crimes, with frauds without num-
ber, with peculations and-worse still
men so des itute of honor that
they approved the base means by which the
democratic party was robbed of its victory
at the polls. Who are the one hundred
thousand men who fill the federal offices of
the country? Are they not those who APP
proved the villainies of the Louisiana re
turning board? Is it expected that such
officials will purify the government dig up
the sinks of iniquity and clamor for hon
esty? BY no means. These officials every
where throughout the country indorse
Hayes, indorse the frauds by which he
was made president, and would use their
official influence to perpetuate the thieving
party in power Every post Office, custom
house, every subordinate position, every
foreign minister or commercial representa-
tive, is drawn from the ranks of the party
that approved of the Louisiana and electoral
commission villainy. The democratic party
is fully committed to the high purpose of
keeping these great wrongs wildly before the
American people. 1t is the supreme de-
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