The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-04-06

~ WASHINGTON, ID. o., Mar. 3.
have seen great light, rs they say a
Methodist camp-mectings. As Grant wrot,
to "Newcomb, Easton and Smith," Of st
Louis, during the Gratz Brown campaign
in 1870, have been ''enabled to see my
way clear" shall support the admins
tration fthe fraudulent President. shal
acquiesce in the verdict Of Bradley.
shall hailJ. Madison Wells aud Eliza Pink.
aston as martyrs and canonize them as saints
For mine eyes have sten and mine ears have
heard the glory of the opposition of Blainc
UP to yesterday and to-day / had been full
of the gall Of bitterness toward the mon who
had stolen our Presidency full of the fierce
ness Of resentment against the man who had
accepted the stolen property Mt their hands
and full of the aqua fortis of contempt for
the pusilanimity of those rightful owners,
the Democrats who had stood quietly and
allowed their pockets to be rifed without
oven 10 much as an able bodied remon-
atranee. But now am at rest. Having
learned dhat Blaine was really, actually and
nm fact at war with Mr.. Hayes, hasten to
assure the latter of my distinguished con-
ssideratian, and to congratulate him upon
his great luck. No other possible conjunct-
nre,could have made his tenure ofthe Pres
idsncy even tolerable in the eyes of respeo.
table people. / have heretofore remarked
that Hayes was lucky dog. That he
aeemed in truth Ny
"a fasorit Of Fate, in Fortunes lap caressed.'
That honors and emoluments have fallen
upon him like ripe apples from the tree
That he seemed to have been singled out by
God Almighty as living testimony unto
all men Of the omnipotence Of Good Luck
And all that sort Of thing. But NO stroke
of luck that ever descended upon his head
test or the ar.fetchedest-to that stroke
which fell in the Senate yesterday when
Blaine declared war on the new Southern
policy of Hayes. All the other pieces of
good luck which have befallen Hayes bear
the same relation to this one that the sput-
ter Of tallow candle bears to q bolt Of chain
lightning. Blaine has his uses. The State
Of Maine has its uses also. The State of
Maine exists on the map in order that Blaine
may sit in Congress. And Blaine sits in
Congress in order that decent men may know
what course to take on occasions Of dilem-
swss.; B1siDs ponetimes hcsitstes about tax
III pos{f He never shesftA Ates. about
~ - lekseSs
"memoranda" and the like-but he does
sometimes hesitate about taking position !;
and on these occasions all men who have at
heart the interests of the country and who
want to be right hesitate also the suspence
is painful. But no sooner does Blaine rear
up on his hind legs and begin to paw the
air with his torepaws, believing the while
like four-year old bull with stone wall
between himself and the object of his de-
sires, than all good men complacently betake
themselves to the other side and put their
trust in God.
Blaine is not like Daniel Webster Blaine
would rather be wrong than be President !;
but he would like to be both When our
Proctor Knott remarked that Blaine was
"the d-dest scoundrel on the American
continent" he did very wrong Knott
should have said, "Blaine is the most useful
man on the American or any other continent
Blaine is to politics what the lighthouse is
to navigation his light shows where those
places are which must be kept away from.
He is the red flag of politics, for, whenever
you see him you know there is small-p -pox
in the neighborhood. He reminds me of
the fellow who used to go about the country
as an advance agent Of noted temperance
lecturer. He always travelled forty eight
hours ahead of the lecturer, giving fearful
example of the effects Of intemperance
But one earthly consideration could have
induced patriotic pcople-people who value
manhood, honesty, honor, law, peace charity
and other benisons, benefccs and amenities
of life-to tolerate President not elected
by the people, but counted in by Bradley,
Strong, Miller, Garfield, Hoar, Edmunds
ct al That one thing was that Blaine
should oppose his administration. That
left the situation in the nature of choice
between two frauds; and, as friend McCul-
lagh once said of Bill Grosvenor-who, by
the way, is the .Jidus Achates of Carl Schurz
-"Hell could not produce nor Omnipotcnce
4. duplicate" fraud which would not instant.
ly be chosen as the lesser of the two if the
other hapehned to be Blaine,
l am told that Blaine opposes Hayes be-
cause Hayes refused to give him the patron
age he demanded. That Blaine went up to
the White House and commanded Hayes
to stand and deliver two or three Cabinet
places and no end of other valuablcs, and
that Hayes in response kicked Blaine down
the front steps, whereby a soreness was pro-
duccd in the seat of Baincs intcllcct-
But Blaine is taking the wrong way to get
even. 1t is just ike him. He never docs
tho right thing. He is so smart Blaine
is-so damned smart, if may be allowed
the term--that he can't get out of his own
way; therefore most of the blows which he
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