The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-25
RADICAL EXPERIMENTS.


Of the most fearful magnitude, violations of |
law and constitution, disregard Of the !
most sacred rights of the people, the over
throw of state governments by military des
potism and widespread Generalization. |
To such an extent have these inroads upon
the structure of the government been carried
that almost every landmark erected by the
founders of the republic has been swept
away, and to-day the ship of state, with
damning fraud at the helm, is drift
ing God only knows whittier. In
this hour of peril it behooves every well
wisher of his country to pause and
take calm survey of the situation, pa
tient retrospect of the policy of the radical
party, and note carefully the results that
have followed The earliest utterances of
the radical party demonstrated its inherent
wickedness and foreshadowed the fact that,
with opportunities, it would reduce order to
chaos. 1t saw constitution in its provis
ions embodying almost infinite wisdom. This
it proclaimed "a league with hell, ," and at
once the experiment was commenced to
change it The work has gone forward I'M
til, with patches and amendments, decisions
and constructions by courts made to order
the old document has been so transformed
that it means anything or nothing, as best
suits the ven&l creatures who make it sub
serve their criminal purposes. The rad
ical party coming into power found
a united country-states like stars in a
bright constellation, each in its orbit NOV
ing in sublime beauty. With order there
were few opportunities for plunder-the CEN
trail idea of radicalism, and hence the ex-
pertinent to produce confusion, which, when
enthroned, brought with it unutterable woes
to the people, but as it filled the pockets of
the thieving conspirators was pronounced a
success. The radical experiment of recon
'struction" was in all regards representative
of the ignorance, malice and dishonesty of
the party, and in every instance proved a
failure, except in so far as those who planned
and executed it have been able to rob the
people subjected to its blighting effects The
history of the south the past IL years bears
irrefragible testimony of the truth that the
experiment of radical reconstruction is a
archy and fraud, steadily pursued for these
objects and none other. Every profession
of honesty lie; every law enacted with
sounding devotion TO order concealed be-
meath its artful phrase, the bloody shirt
the symbol of its hellish purpose; the lisPing
pleadings of childhood and the trembling
prayers of age were alike disregarded, plum
der being the purpose of radical recon
struction; the hot breath of hate forever
famed the fires of discord, and the south,
under the experiment, was made the
charnel house of liberty and a broad
theater where the whole vulture crew fat
tened upon its resources. The radical party
has also experimental with the finances
of the country, and what is the result?
Confidence gone, business Frustrated, fail
ures and bankruptcy increasing, the land
full of idleness and the outlook boding still
greater business depression. Every ex peri
ment in finances made by the radical party
has had reference to increasing the oppor-
tunitIes of sharpers to pray upon their vic.
Tins, and the result is before the country
widespread dissatisfaction and uncertainty;
condition of things eminantly popular
with those who play the part of wreckers
and live off the misfortunes OF others. The
country has heard much, very much, in re-
gard to the radical civil service
reform experiment, and if it is not
in keeping with every other fraud
practiced by the party, then the sturdiest
facts ever written are of no more force than
childish fancies or the chimeras of a diseased
brain. OF all the one hundred thousand
officeholders appointed by Grant, who made
the country, by their populations and frauds
kissing and byword among the nations of
the earth, those who have teen dis
missed the service give evidence Of
no purpose to reform the service
The thieves are still in Office. Custom
houses and post offices, and every other of
fetal retreat, are still the dens of thieves,
ana the plundering goes on as OF old. Nor
is this all, but even the man Key, who con-
trolls the post Office department (2), informs
the country in advance that in the future
as in the past, only radicals, if they can
be found, will receive recognition.
The experiment in civil service, as in
other, matters will continue to be mass of
professions, covering crimes and protecting
thieves. There has been an unusual amount
of gush over the order of Hayes to remove
the troops from the South Carolina state
house, where they had been placed to aid
the experiment of counting in a president
by fraud. This act incensed Patterson, the
.carpet-bag senator of that state. who visited
Hayes to obtain an explanation, and was
told that his policy in South Carolina was
simply an experiment" and the New York
Times chimes in and pronounces the entire
southern policy of the presidential fraud an