Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-06-09
NO. 1856.

| the commonwealth. NOlniDg prevented that
| from being dine, except the expressly communi-
| Gated sanction of Gov. Tilden to the scheme of
| the ineconcilable wing of the democracy to nom
mate Wade Hampton as straight-out candidate,
and elect him by the Mississippi plan of proscrip-
| tion and intimidation. Gov Tildcn, to serve his
own ambition to secure solid South, dictated the
| nomination of Hampton against what the best
democrats in the State believed to be their local
1 interests. a-t.,
"Ihe present disposition OF the South Carolina
| democrats towards Gov. Chamberlain signifies a
| change, but the change began when he denounced
| with righteous condemnation the barbarous mur-
| der Of colored men, The disarmed prisoners of
| lawless mob at Hamburg. 1t was intensified by
his proclamation OF the horrible truth about the
Ellenlon riots. 1t was made raging by his sup
preston OF the organized and armed military
| clubs Of inimdators raiding through the State to
terrOrize the coored voters. That is the secret
| and the whole secret Of the sudden change in the
| temper of South Carolina democrats from conf
| dence and admiration to hatred and abuse.
| The facts are undened and undeniable that the
| claimed democratic majority depends upon the
votes OF two or three counties where the repub-
licans we've subjected TO horrible outrage at the
| hands of democrats, and where the vote cast was
thousands in excess of the whole voting popula-
| ton the excess being on the democratic side.'
| These are terse and strong and striking words.
| They smite with the eternal force of courage and
| directness and decision. But ask the Advertis-
er if this is the whole secret, what becomes Of its
previously asserted breach of trust Which of It's
|
South Carolina are up in arms against Gov. Cham
berain because he is an aoventurer and they have
| not been trusted, or because he denounced the
murderers and proclaimed the riots and suppressed
the military mobs that weie terrorizng the color
| ed voters To which shall the soldiers of the
| L nited States present arms, Gov. Tden ordering
| the nomination of Hampton, or the Cincinnati
platform pledging protection TO all ctizensi Shall
we side with Chamberlain and law and the Adver-
tiser on Monday, or with democracy and murder
| and the Advertiser on Wednesday Which is
| Philip drunk and which is Philip sober
| And will the Advertiser kindly inform its rural
| readers by what trust, by what consultation, by
the abnegation of what authority or responsibility
it proposes TO conciliate the irreconcilable
There was an old man who said how
| Shall flee from this horrible cow
| will sit on ste
| And continue to smile,
| Which may soften The heart of this cow I"
The result of this experiment has never been
| recorded; but the wood-cut which illustrates its
progress Is not encouraging. Yet the Boston pa
pers 10 cling TO it with childlike and touch
| ing faith. Having submitted to Gov. Tilden's
| dication, and the llamburgh murder and the FL
lencn riots, and the military clubs, and the de-
| serton Of Chamberlain, the Boston Journal sud-
denly refuses to stand 1t any longer, and boldly
announces thot "flampon's course will be carfui-
ly watched 1t is not easy to depict the conster-
| nation that must seize upon Wade Hampton's
heart when he learns that his is run, for the
Boston journal is sitting on the stile, Mary, and
| looking at him.
| In addition to this. they tell us that prominent
| and influential Democrats will be sent through
| the interior counties and parishes of Louisiana
| and South Carolina, for the purpose of explaining
| to the whites the exact situation"
| Yet greatly fear the men of Hamburg and
Ellenton and East Feciana, ranged in q semi
circle around these democratic missonaries-one
hand on their bowie-knives, and the other on
their pistols-will with difficulty be persuaded
that they do not understand the exact situation
well as their Northern teachers. But Cancellation
| has taken so firm hold on the Boston mind that
it cannot record the dinner given to Speaker
| Randall at the Parker House without noting the
| startling fact that the speeches were made lin
concilatory spirit" Usually. l suppose, the
| Boston papers would give us to understand that,
in polite society, outside Of Boston, when q COM
pllmentary dinner is given to gentleman, the
hosts and guests 60 at each other shovel and
tongs
| Never until now, says the innocent Advertiser,
| in trance OF eyaltation over the Electoral Com
mission, never until now have the people known
| political question of this magnitude to be taken
| absolutely out of the hands of the political mana
gers" And four days afterward, this new inven-
lion having been wound up, aud set going began
| to click out its eight to seven, eight to seven,
| eight to seven, just as regularly and unerringly
and unmstak kably, as if it had been an old pollti-
cal machine!
On Dec. II, a committee of which Secretary
Sherman was chairman, reported that
"Organized clubs of masked men, formed and
|
tee, rode through the country at night marking
their course by whipping, shooting, wounding,
| manning. mutilating and murder Of women, chill
| dren and defenseless men, whose houses were
forcibly entered while they slept, and rs their in
| mates fled through fear the pistol, the rifle. the
knife and the rope were employed to do their hor
rid work. Crimes like these, testified to by scores
of Witnesses were the means employed in Louis
lana to elect President of the United States, and
when they shall succeed the glories of the Repub-
lie will have departed"
On Feb. l6, Mr.. Evarts said
al the Federal power now leaves these
| unbefrended, uneducated, simple black people TO
the fate from which the State stroye hard to save
them, | say that YOU will have made them by that
action the victims of your Constitution. l
| say that you make them the sacr iices to the tr-
| umph of the Government over the Rebellion |
say that such self-abasement of the powers of
| this Government is beyond all cure. 1t teaches
the sad lesson that the American people
finds itself thwarted by the exhibition of violence
| by this turbulent population, and forced, with its
own hand, to crush the method of law
Ga March the Boston Journal says:
| "ln common with vast majority of the repuhi-
cans in the United States, President Hayes has no
doubt whatever as to the validity of the title
through which Packard and Chamberlain have
become de facto Governors. But the
indications that he will have to waive his con
victions to the right and justice of the matter,
and bow to the inevitable law OF force.
| WHAT we, tue HSoptt, utslit ~ buOH ~ W uciuer
John Sherman and f. W. Stoughton and Eugenc
Hale and j. A. Garfield and the other men who
signed that report. were merely making out and
making up case to influence the decision for the
Presidency, or whether they were telling the truth
If they were loving aud making lie why was it
detected after the 4th OF March and not detected
beforel If they were loving and making a lie
then the worst charges of the Demo, rats against
the Republican party are true. Tue Republican
leaders have deceived and betrayed their honest
followers into great iniquiiy and the Republican
newspapers have been blind leaders of the blind
or worse Ii they were telling the truth, what
atonement has the Central Democratic Committee
made for the whippngs and murders which il Or
gauized what submission hasSt offered to the law
full Government, what change has passed into the
Constitution of the United States since Feb l6
or what dminu alton has come to her might,
that the simple black people should have been
yielded up as victims; that the Government should
have been incur ably abased that the American
people should find itselfthwarted by the exhibition
of violence, and forced with its own hand to crush
the methods of law
What happened between Feb. Is and March
to make it necessary that the National Admins
tration should waive its convictions of right ant
| for he E,s, Il. Snff dafo