Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-03-31

late to play Giroadist now. You have made
/ your bed with themcst reckless and disreputaJlc
members Of the Republican party, and in il
/ you must lie. You cant cheat them now out
ofthe fruits of their disgraceful victory. They
didn't form au alliance with Louisiana thieves
au6 perjurers and Florida and South Carolina
carpet-Saggers aud scallawags merely for the
fun of the thing. or merely because they pre-
ierred such C tile as a matter of choice. Oh
no! Ii required a very convulSive effort to
gulp down Madison Wells and Stearns and
Chamberlain. Think You, fellow citizens, they
would have risked their lives at such game
of swindliug aud psurpation for the purpose
Of putting Carl Schurz, Confederate General
Key, aud Henry Ward Beecher's apologist-
William Nj. Eyarts-iuto the Cabinet OF the
President, over their own heads aud as thorns
in their own sides? lie who thinks thus is a
superficial observer There is, fellow citizens,
a storm brewing 10 the Republican party. 1t
is not diSpelled, but, on the contrary, IL Is gath
ering force aud snlIen fury, and when il breaks
forth these gentlemen of Hayes Cabinet, who
are nov piggins together in the same truckle
bed, will be swept away like stubble or re-
Guced TO ciphers in the administration. Begun
in fraud that administration is destined to
continue in violence, and to end in the deStruc-
ton of the Republican party. Burnt brandy,
to use 4 hOmey phrase, won't save i, now.
stream does not rise higher than lis source. y
great majority of the people stand in hostile
array to the usurping Executive. MakeNbilts
aud spols may prop up the administration for
q while, but a time Will come when makeshiftS
and SpolS will not longer avail. Already old
William Lloyd Garrison is kissing forth his
cxecrllionS of the Hayes methods in a letter to
Brother Blaine am looking for Wendell
Phillips next. Presently the storm will breIk
forth, and Hayes, beiug weak man, with not
one-half the strength of character OF Grant, or
one-tenih the lion hearted courage and defiant
reciitule Of Andrew johnson, will bend like a
reed TO the storm, and will be content to DO the
bidding of lis masters, aud to register the edcts
of the McrtouS, Dlaiues aud Chambers Instead
Of those Of the decamatory ScAurz aud the in
terninable Evarts.
And then comes the Democratic opportuni
~ Let us for the present wait and watch -
Let Us possess our souls in peace y mere Sus-
piciun of a corrupt bargain between Henry
Clay and John Quincy Adams fry years a.o,
by which the latter WAS made President OF the
United States and the former Secretary Of
State, and which John Randolph called the
union between the Puritan and the blacklcg-
between Blif and Black George Silied the
Adams family forever and closed the doors OF
the White House h Henry Clay as If by the
hand Of Fate. 1t is no mere suspicion now
Fraud and usurpaiion have reared their sinis-
ter heads above us, aud all tie men who took |
part in the nefaTious business will be dealt
with by the American people sooner or later
as they deserve They viii be driven from /
power and buried ont Of sight OF au indignant /
Republic. date tie beginning Of their down |
fall from the elections for Congress in Novem-
bcr 1878 And may we be there to see t. !
/ predict that when another Presidential cleo
ton occurs the Senate of the United States, as
well as the House of representatives, will have
been turned over 10 the Democratic party, aud |
that those bodies will obey the people, and not
Returning Boards, in counting tue votes for our
next President.