The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-14

liar, ths singular compound bf all that Ia dstest-
able In pslisies sud asspeai,ls In society, comes
forward Az q candidate for tho Hpsahsrship, 60
licsing The votes of the Southern msnl Does be |
itnsEins that the South fofges hs la est expeiif
Does fs suppose thai any Southern man could |
vote fer The birtifsated mass Of iffany In latmat
shape who gushed ever the integrity Of j. Madl-
son Wells and swept eopousy over the gaping |
wounds and impugnsd chastity Of IElss Pink |
sten7 Certainly IL esnnot be supposed thai the |
mat, IA such M indet as 10 imsgias tisss things
wIshgus be- depended upon assurances beyond
and oussids of Iiis sense 81 merit Of his own, |
however s1trayaRant hH SENSE might be n that
particular. | will tell whst he cstpts on.
ftts 1ANbtBATUaB ron rHH spHAHEasHtp.
You will r, nstnbsr that th#re was senatorial
elsotioa In Obio moi long ag5, aud thss Garfield
wss originally announced ~ \ candidate. This
move hsa for its object the blaekmailing 0f
The friends ef another esndidate. By and by II
WAS given ots thai aafHsld had Withdrawn In
favor III Matthew's because 1t MAS this dssfs III The
ada inishs'iou thst ths krmsr should remain lii
the House III Representative. This read well In
print but Il did not sml,9ds the facts THE facts
we're. HAT aatfeld, as soon nv his candidacy wss
forn,idat enough 10 tfads on, nads bargain
By wAiati he agreed 10 get out of tho wsy and lot
Matthews into The ssnate, provided shs latter,
who In Tom soBttis a tofney, would aares 10 sfn-
ploy the Texas faslas iuHnsaee ii, the south 10
seiifs support Tor Garfield ~ d candidate for
| Speaker
| Now 1t would be The height OF itjHst 90 To say
thai aegtt il q party to these disfspatable bar
gains snd sales. He is anhoyed beyond messure
thai the non4pstioai object which he IL 1egitim.
atsly seeking should bs tnsds eat's paw tf by
trading and thimbls rigging politicians. Hs
knows that willis bis railway pfoisos, on its own
merits ~ an enterprise, ssn command very nssrly
ths solid support of the South ID Congress-, there
are not hys votes from that section which hs
could use AZ euliatsrs1 Ia any kind VI trade, TT
| which be could deliver ~ n consideration Tor
yalna received In discharge Of sny obligstion.
Thus fairfield. at The end oil political csfser
| which has chiefly consisted In putting on airs
With other peoples money, Ii trying 10 negotiate
himselfinto the Speaker ship nDon the basis OF
other peoples property. And In 10 doing, sets
himself ap ss nm exponent Of Hsyss' Policy Of
raoaestion and t.sfofmi ffthe policy proves as
sietenibe shaud AZ its hexpensnt" is alresdy
proved 10 be- its collapse IA not lar off, aud when
ID does collapse the stencil OF its deeaying re4
mains will be eauaed only by ths stink OF The
already dscofnpo ed character of q rhaldt
wEHBHtb pHtbtdrs AND GEN DavBHs.
! Thsre IL Heting ibs gopa English. DespiHe a
sentiment as We may, We oabngt help respsc ing
the good English II may be framed in. Wendell
Phillips liz not deep Ia the eobh sues nor ID he
broad Ia The esteem Of The Amsridsn people. But
he Ehg ish which lis hfrls sb the objects ef his
wrath has tea respect III eyaryb dy who knows
what y symmetrical sentences ie6Hs like. havs in
mind thai tartibls epigtam On the point of witch
he recently ucifsa Dsvsns, the Attorney Gem
ersi of the 'slays Hound GAbinst." snd ttthe
low tuonotohy Ut whoss ifs rose into notiessbis
nfamy OILY when he sent Thomas sims back te
slavery
Immadistsiy sehurz, Hayes " Co., set sbonl
res uing Devsns frem ihs claws OF his perse4
ootor. They caused 10 b. published fur N nd
vide that Devsps, as d zsa, with his own
money, bought tho freedom II Thomas Sims
after he had, ~ an officer, remsndsa him haek
10 aerviuds. This was besuifui and touching
story, and seemed ~ lst Ovens out. Bat /,
turns out that Dsvsns never authorized the story
; and also, that IL was entirely untrue.
THE LIE ppMAssEp.
Phillips NJ once denounced Ii az false when II
came out, sud now he bas suacss led In drum.
ming mp Sims himself 10 egnns forward and swsa,
lbat II his frssd0fn Was purchased by Dsvsbs, he
! never knsw anything about IL, for he renal Cd q
lave after his oaptnre by Deysns under The fng
live slsye law until ses frse by The Federal inva
/. sion Of Tsnnsssse in 1868. Thus The Iio hsl
{. them ~ lte always does.
LiNa6Las BHraADiEns.
Then besides this lis, there was no end Of pan
egyrio npon The gal antfy Of Devsos ~ soldier
during the war. NV. Devera WAS toIsrabl]
fair specimen VI tho political bfigadler general
fle be onged 10 that type Ut She political brias
!. aisrs whom Mr.. Iiucoln once annihliated, ~ fol
lows:
The Confederates Ind captured a male train
. ! including two trig ,disr generals. When Mr
Lincoln heard Of IL, he said 'rm sorry abont tn
> mulss."
sBut what oil The brigadiersr' inquired q iis
tsner
+ .'ob,s replied old Abe, "smali Iossi You soc
!, can manufacturs brigadiers M lbttuns With
stroke Of the pen, but " takes God Almighty Il
:. make mulssl'
u Well, Devsns WAS one Of that sort. You coult
reproduce him In innumsrabIe editions with
stroke Of tho pen, while God alone could repro
duce mule. On the whole, 1t strikes me thai
! Ia its little tilt with our Ill conditioned Uncl
b Wendell, the Cabinet has got the worst Of IL al
i round. Wendell. a. TO his views, IL q tsrribi
It fraud and nuisance, but ~ TO the English Il
|, which he frames his dssessabls views he s an art
o lot.
A THE CABINETS MILITARY RECORD.
d The fact is, the less said about the militar
II achievements Of Hayes Cabiaet, the better
r Owens, po iticai brigader ~ he was, undoubted
10 iy figured with more eclat than Schurz did, 10
n example, because be was 70 obscure and hi
commands no nnimportant that he hid q