The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-07-10
A DANIEL IN JUDGMENT.
CIIAMBERLAIN FENIILAIES HIS
OPINION Or Ia YES.

Bitter Attack on the southern Policy 20
Invoking Solid North: >. !,
The Fourth of July was observed
at Woodstock, Conn, with q dinner
Among the guests present were
Blaine and d. H. Chamberlain. The
former vindicated tho policy of
Grants administration, and protest
cd against tho granting of govern
ment aid to Southern improvements.
Chamberlain made O bitter attack
on Hayes. The following arc ex~
tracts, and serve to show the animus
of til ex-carpot Dagger. He says {:
"A Presidential policy, if the
term is descriptive, is an anomaly
and an offence. 1t savors of,bad faith.
1t has n native and historical odor
of treachery and intrigue. But,
follow citizens, what is the Presi-
dents Southern policy In point
of physical or external facts it con-
sists in withdrawing the military
forces of the United States from tho
points in South Carolina and Louisi-
ana, where they had been previously
stationed for the protection and sup
port of the lawful governments of
those States. In point Of immedi-
ate, foreseen and intended conse-
quence it consists in the overthrow
and destruction of those State gov.
ernments, and the substitution in
their stead of certain other orgalfl>
cations called State governments. In
point of actual present results it
consists in the abandonment of
Southern Republicans, and especial
ly the colored race, to the control
and rule not only of the Democratic
party, but Of that class at'the South
which regarded slavery asa Divine
institution, which waged four years
of destructive war for it's pdrpetua-
ton, which steadily opposed citizen
ship and suffrage for the negro. In
word, class whose traditions,
principles and history are opposed
to every step and feature of what
Republicans call our national pro-
gress since 1860. In point of gon>
eral political and moral significance,
it consists in the proclamation to
the country and' the world that the
will of the ma jority of the voters of
State, lawfully and regularly ex
pressed, is no longer the ruling
power in our States, and that the
constitutional guarantee to every
State In this Union Of a Republican
form of government and of protcc~
ton against domestic violence is
henceforth Intellectual and worthless.
/ could frame an excuse for James
Buchanan. He WIS tho decaying
fruit Of half q century of Northern
subservience to Southern dictation-
the poor dreg Of a.wornout poll
tician whose whole life had been
spent in covering submission to the
will of those whom he was now call
ed to confront. But what shall be
said of this president, educated by
the events of the last seventeen
years. the long and perilous stlug-
gle to save the nation to freedom
and justice, tho representative Of a
party whose life and inspiration in
every hour of.its existence has been
political justice and freedom for oil
American citizons-a president who
had literally climbed to- his high
seat over tho dead bodies of hum
drcds of loyal men in Louisiana who
had met death in forms far more
terrible than any battle-f fold, in Or
der that the liberty of which they
had tasted might be kept for their
children James Buchanan could
say he negotiated with those who
were in arms against tho United
States in order that he might by
peaceful agencies preserve the in
tegl'ity of the Union and avert" a
fraticidal war. This president en-.
ters upon his negotiations with
these who Gre in arms against the
lawful government Of Louisiana, in
order that he might the more surely
betray tho friends who had trusted
him and the case he was sworn to
uphold. Now, fellow~citizens, T ex-
ercise the right of an American citi-
zen, no more, when L SAY that q
review of this chapter of our history
leaves me in no doubt that the real
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