The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-04-25
,nfEU, SWEET ROGUE!


- inclined to give vent to the same
.ort of admiration which one must
soal for foeman worthy of the most
,llrstrious steal. He was man,
.oke him all in all, we hope we meier
.b.ll look upon his like again. He
vsa different sort of man from R.
D HAYES. Hayes is a man who
oompounds with the Presidency he is
toclined to by damning two Govern
o,ships he has no mind to. Hayes
rsnted. and probably will have, the
had eminence of being the only Ex-
ocutiye in the country holding an Of
Goo to which another man is enti-
tied. But Chamberlain was an hon
ost man, according to Goodies "
understanding of the word, being
truly man who didn't care d-n'
la was a reckless cuss, and now,
when he vanishes, he proposes to
hurn the fingers a little that snuff
him out. Like Washington, he
writes q farewell address. He adj
dresses it exclusively to "the Repub-
,icans" of South Carolina, and says,
~ was made your Governor of this
State" but be has no word of part
ing for the larger and far more res
noctable class Of South Carolinians
untitled Democrats; he never was
made their Governor. He speaks of
the acowardly scorn" now cast upon
them by political placemen and ira
dsrs," and this has direct reference
70 one R. B. Hayes, who, doubtless,
inuocently asks his lawyer Evarts
what this means, and is reassured by
the profound opinion that it refers
IN Lamar and Gordon and the others.
Chamberlain tells his people--who
will get somebody to read it to them
that during the long struggle for
the Presidency (protracted after the
election of Tilden) they were exhort~
ed to keep their faith and do their
works (meet for repentance, in or.
der that their deliverance from their
oppressors-who were under their
feet and paid taxes for them-might
be complete, and now, he says, you
are abandoned. He says-and there
isa grave and graphic force in this
that:
at is said that if majority of the PEG
pie Of the State are unable, by physical
force, to maintain their rights, they must
lie left to political servitude. Is this q
doctrine ever before heard in our history 7
III
not long be confined to South CaIolina or
10 Louisiana
The last sentence of this is alb
surd. 1t is not now confined to those
two States, but extends a. over the
nation. But it was the only doctrine
that would give at once place and
power to Mr.. Hayes, and it was our
Stanley Matthews who invented ! t.
BE says, does Chamberlain, that his
legal rights are wholly unaffected,
aud he leaves the inference that
while he evacuates with the troops
the post Of de factostip, he intends
to cling to the illustrious ohscurity
Of de jure. This is a plain refusal of
the offered Punishment to the French
Capital, where Don Carlos, and, ex-
cept Lulu, all the other rulers ex
PEELED by the people are in the habit
Of retiring. Finally, he declares
that his "is cause in which, by the
light of reason and conscience, man
might we'll lay down his life" But
since he lays down only his office
and not his life it may fairly be in.
ferred that he is not guided wholly
and at all times by the light of rea.
son aud conscience.
His Cabinet nobly stood by him in
this Spartan resolve not to sacrifice
life at the within Of reason and con.
science, and they, also, reflect on the
Administration. They speak of it as
Installed in large measure through
the same agencies which are now
held to be insufficient for our main
tenance."
This means the army, to which
they also refer as "moral aid
though, if it be such, it must be very
different from our army in Flanders
They deprecate the keeping alive
partisan prejudices" and indicate
their entire willingness, in the alb
sence of the army, to consent to al
unostentious funeral of the past
They say that their chiefs ''retire
rnent will involve no surrender o
principles, nor its motives be mlsap
pretended" all of which is starting