The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-12-29
BLOOD, IAGO, BLOOD!
The war that for space did fail
Now trebly LAUNDERING, sMclls the gale. ~

Now trebly laundering, swcls the gale
Brother Cullen of the Ottawa RepuJ!tcaa
who returns this week with great vigor to his
attack on Hayes in labored defence of the
Southern military rule of President Grant
which Hayes so ruthlessly overthrow, will find
world Of aid and comfort in the letter Just
published at Washington by VIM E. Chandler
the Secretary of the Republican National com.
mittee. The letter, it must be promised, is
vastly more in purport and significance than
the mere uttcrance of a single prominent re
publican politician. IL is on all hands under
stood and received as the deliberate and formal
pronouncement of now thoroughly organic
ed opposition to Hayes within the ranks ofthc
great republican party, and believed TO include
ninc-tenths OF its best material.
On the particular point Of southern military
rule, which Brother Cullen handles so ccverly
Mr.. Chandler IS especially cogcnt. Ridicul-
ing IIaycs's pretence now that in his southern
policy he is carrying out the implied pledges
of the Cincinnati platform, he says during the
whole campaign Of 1876 the bloody shirt was
not only freely and constantly waved but
Hayes himself urged prominent public men
to put forward as our best argument the dan.
ger of rebel rule and solid south" And af-
ter the election, when Hayes thought himself
defeated, he wrote:
do not care for myself, but do care for
the poor colorcd men Of the south. Northern
men cannot live there and will leave. The
southern people will practically treat the con
amendments as utilities, and then
the colorcd mans fate will be worse than when
he was in slavery. That is the only reason ]
regret that the news is as it is.
What" cxclaimcs Mr.. Chandler, must we
hink Of man who, aftersuch expressions, no
sooner obtains power than he turns upon these
same poor colorcd men and consigns them TO
he tender mcrcies Of these negro hating south.
,rncrs"
But ii is when describing the history and
motives Of this shameful trcaclery that Mr.
chandler comes out strongest. II was all the
esult of the scandalous bargain by which the
outhcrn politicians were induced to consent
o the peaceful counting in of Hayes The
,argain was made on the part of Hayes by
stanley Matthews, John Sherman and John
\. Garfield, and on the part of the south by
!. c. e. Lamar, John B. Gordon, John Young
Brown, Henry Watterson and some others
III the steps in carrying out this disgracofi,l
ompact are traced through the memorable
ist March days of the house, and then IN the
opositon of Chamberlain and Packard, and
a the rcwardng Of the consplators. Then,
fler stoutly protesting against loading down
ne republican party with all this inlamy, Mr..
handler closes in an earnest appeal to the re.
ubicans of the north to rise in rebellion:
Silence is crime Acquesccncc and mac
on are political death. Can the republican
arty of heroic achievements be bound TO an
which Is not a free agent, but
hich IL bound by bargain to Gen. Gordon,
. q. g. Lamar, Wade Hampton, and other
)uthen democrats now in high Office, only
trough the blood of murdered republicans
)oes no, every voter in the land Etow thati,
Iayes and Packard were elected sftnstisnoous
, and held by the same title, or tli,r when
Iaycs abandoned and trampicd down Packard $
C put an irrcmovablc stain upon his title?
he republican party has lived long and sur !
wed many assaults and many treasons only I
cause il has been a party founded on high /
rinciples, animated by lofty sentiment, cour
ycously acting up to noble convictions. Iii
DIV disgraccs its record and indorses or fails
repudiatc Hayes surrender its voters will !
ave ii by thousands, its days are numbered, n
nd it will be II deserved and dishonored death. !
There, Brother Cullen, is richness for you.
ut of course the Republican will not fail 10 f
We us the whole letter next week. O