The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-07-20
THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE.
CHAMBERLAIN AND BLAINE MAKE COMMON
CAUSE.

"ionS nistoIy vi tHe Louisiana ana South
Carolina cases, and Il general denunciation
of the Presidents policy, attacked his civil
service policy, and proceeded as follows -
Look next at the relations of this admins.
istration to the present financial issues
President Hayes has heretofore entitled
himself to the confidence of honest men by
his course on this question. Nothing. sir,
but the necessity of gaining support for his
policy could have induced him to
eontemrlate an alliance with the silver con.
spiracy, conspiracy which regards silver
:. with favor only because it has lost all virtue
= MS astandard Of value, and as q currency is
cheaper than greenbacks. 1t is the inhe-
rent and unavoidable weakness of his present
position, the effect of his wretched Southern
policy, that he must conciliate an outraged
party so far as possible by yielding now to
the demand for the spoils and now to the de-
.mand for cheap money. Again, the Repub-
lican party by all its recent platforms is
pledged to oppose the greht Of subsidies to
\ private corporations. H@enos-fiah who to-
)day knows anything of the current of the in.
fuenccs which are gathering at Washington
IS ignorant of the fact that vast scheme is
steadily maturing, unopppsed, if not favored,
by this administration, which aims to take
from our public domain and from our public
treasury untold subsidies to build Southern
Pacific railway, railway for which there is
no present public need, and from which pri-
G s.vate capitalists would shrink with contempt.
An the train of this gigantic effort at public
robbery will come the revival of the defunct
Northern Pacific, the building of levees on
the Mississippi, and kindred schemes sufi-
cient to again corrupt the morals an6 blast
the prosperity of the whole country, and all
this is the price which must be paid for the
privilege of overthrowing two lawful State
governments and trampling upon the princi-
pies upon which our government and insti-
tutions rest, the rule of the msjority. Sir,
there are laws of moral cause and effect as
true and certain as any physical laws.
No political leader, no political party can
forfeit honor or desert principles at one point
and maintain them at another. Integrity is
indivisible You cannot nc dishonest on one
subject and honest on others. The Pres-
dents Southern policy, conceived in his own
mind, a'shock and offence to his party, rock
less of justice aud of constitutional duty, if
unopposcd will more and mofc weaken the
moral bonds which have hitherto, in spite of
all its failings, secured to the Republican
party the confidence of the majority of the
most intelligent and patriotic Americans for
more than twenty years. But, fellow cti-
zcns, this gathering is not for me alone
Others, whose titles to your confidence and
attention are older and better than mine, are
here. The subject which have discussed
still stretches on before me, but must close.
We arc summoned to the duty of exposing
and denouncinga great crime-a crime more
wanton and objectionable than the crime
against Kansas, which aroused the sleeping
conscience Of the North, and gave its earliest
victories to the Republican party. That
crime was committed by President at the
bidding of the party which elected him
This crime has been committed in defiance
of the principles and pledges of the Repub-
iican party, and in defiance of the personal
declarations and obligations of the Presi-
dent.
No man who counts the cost of arrayng
himself on the side Of freedom and constitu.
tional principles is worthy to enlist in this
acw struggle for the honor and peace of our
country. fl have to-day spoken the senti-
,ments of none but myself, be it so Silence is
for ME cowardice. If, as believe, the heart
of the nation is true to the old cause to the
principles Of free government, to the princi-
pies of the Constitution and tho Declaration
of Independence, then let it btd heard, let it
speak by the voices Of our leaders Let the
memories which haunt this day be our in
spiration. Let us walk again with Adams
and Hancock and Jefferson of our early re-
volution, with Lincoln aud Stanton and
Sumner of the later revolution. Shades of
the great founders and saviours of our loved
country be with us in this struggle Speak
to us again your great lessons of patriotism,
of courage, of sclfsacrfice ! The marble and
bronze in which we have preserved your hu,
man forms will crumble and corrode, but let
your unconquerablc spirits never behold the
day when a blow struck at the heart of the
Republic. shall find your childrens' lips
dumb, or their hearts dismayed.
When Governor Chamberlain had con-
cluded his speech, the Rev. Mr.. Stoddard
of Fairhaven, Mass, arose and said, that he
desired with all due respect to Governor
Chamberlain to say that he believed the sen
timcnts expressed in the address did not rep
resent the feeling of New England. He
then called for all those who endorsed the
policy of President Hayes to signify it, and
three hearty cheers were given for the Pres
idont. Somebody then called for three
cheers for Governor Chamberlain, and they
were loudly given.