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


nsan- Oar Buell. Sees His Way Czea,
~ u Chotce Betpcen 7i1o Frauds.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Mar. 8.
have seen great light, as they say at
Methodist camp-mectings. AS Grant wrote
to "Newcomb, Easton and Smith," Of st.
Louis, during the Gratz Brown campaign
in 1870, have been "enabled to see nv
way clear" shall support the admins.
tration ofthe fraudulent President. 1 shall
acquiesce in the verdict of Bradley. I
shall hailJ Madison Wells and Eliza Pink
!ston as martyrs and canonize them as saints.
For mine eyes have seen and mine ears have
heard the glory Of the opposition of Blaine.
UP to yesterday and to-day had been full
of the gall Of bitterness toward the men who
had stolen our Presidency full of the fierce
ness Of resentment against the man who had
accepted the stolen property at their hands;
and full of the aqua FORTS of contempt for
the pusillanimity Of those rightful owners
the Democrats, who had stood quietly and
allowed their pockets to be rifed without
even 80 much as an able bodied remon-
atranoe. But now am at rest. Having
Learned that Blaine was really, actually and
an fact at var 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 fthe Pres
idenoy even tolerable in the eyes of respec-
table people. / have heretofore remarked
that Hayes was lucky dog That he
seemed in truth
"a favorit 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 Tint sort Of thing But no stroke
Of luck that ever descended upon his head
bears any comparison-not oven the reno.
test or the far.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 tho sput-
ter ofa tallow candle bears to 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-
s,iSzps6s {ffi1e p9petimes hssitstes abont tax
Z : 81 3 never ,hssilAsSs. about
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
oIr wifi 10 hai Al
like four-year old bull with u 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" lie did very wrong. Knott
should have said "Blane 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
r you see him you know there is smallpox
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 people-people who value
manhood, honesty, honor, law, peace charity
and other benisons, benefces and amenities
of life-to tolerate a 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 n choice
between two frauds; and, as friend McCul-
lagh once said of Bill Grosvenor-who, by
the way, is the fdus Achdtes of Carl Schurz
.-"Hell could not produce nor Omnipotence
,,duplicate" fraud which would not instant
lly be chosen as the lesser of the two if the
.other hapehned to be Blaine,
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 soreness was pro-
ducod in the seat Of Blaine's intellcct.-
But Blaine is taking the wrong way to get
even. It is just like him. He never does
the right thing. He is so smart Blaine
$50 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
designs for others hit himself Now, when
he came away from the White House the
other day ruhhinU tha ipAon,oJ ,ook 90 h;,