The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-03-16
BLAINE'S SPEECH.
"What has Caused this Great Commc-
ton, the Country Trough.''

"What has Caused this Great C0mmc
ton, the Country TrOugh.'
We alluded, last we. K, to speecl
made by Hon. James G. Blaine, in tn
L. S. Senate, that had walked up tha
g body. 1t vas heralded over the coun
try far and wide, and the people ree'
it and reioiced that there was senti
mel yet left upon the watch tower.
But that speech was the cause 0
awakening also ''the dogs of war
. which had been slumbering-the in
placable foes of the Honorable Senator
and he was at once assailed by tn
Cincinnati Gazette and kindred sheets
as taking a position hostile to til
administration, and denounced as or
ganizing an anti-administration party
The Gdz,tte seems to take a satau
pleasure in pursuing Blaine 1t did st
vindictively previous to the last Re
publican National Convention. end i
has lost no opportunity to do so since
Referring to these speeches of Blaine
it said:
The country may as we'll understand
once and for all, the pretended lofty
political position taken by Mr. Blain,
against President Hayes proceeds upor
the utterly false and unwarraptabl,
assumption that President Hayes ha!
announced determine tion 10 abandon
Governors Packard and Chamberlain
20 the tender mercies of the rebels
When Mr. Blaine capped the climax 0.
bis sensation to-day with reference tc
rhe letter of Mr.. Evarts and STANLEY
Matthews. asking Gov Chamberlain tC
resign. he could not but have known
that President Hayes, when the matter
was last night called TO his attention.
had eDaph0ticaliy disclGimed all EnotCl
edge IF the letter and TepudiQted as
SUggestion II Mr. Blaine bad been
disposed to deal honestly with Presi
dent Hayes, he would have stared this
in terms that would have been clearly
understood.
'The lofty political situation taken
by Mr.. Blaine" was in perfect keep
ing with his record in the past, and
based upon the principles of justice
and equity. 1t was intended to show
how untenable the position that Pres
ident HAYES could be found deserli5l
Governors Packard and Cham .erlaiu;
aud we venture the assertion that not
one out of every hundred readers,
could have drawn the Inference from
Blaine's speeches whicn the Gazette
attributes to them. The New York
Tribune, conducted with as great ability
as the Gazette, and with fully as able
a corps of correspondents, could find
no such Inference in Mr.. Blaine's re
marks, but on the contrary spoke as
follows:
''Mr. Blaine's speech in the Senate
yesterday was bold a challenge to any
man who had accepted as lawful the
return of the electoral vote OF Louis
iana for President Hayes to deny that
Governor Packard's title was not
equally good. He denounced in ad-
vance all bargains which contemplated
the recognition of the Nichols Gov
ernment, and declared his belief that
none of them had been countenanced
By the President Mr. Blaine showed
rs much ability in this discussion as
wise management in the conduct of
Mr. Lamar's case. His speech pushes
him to the front in the Senate, and
the sharp thrusts he exchanged with
Senator Morton seem 10 foreshaiow Il
contest for leadership. in which il is
easy to predict who will come ont
first =
We have itas lieised passages in the
quotations to show how differently Mr
5laine's remarks were understood.
Mr. Blaine can withstand the Gazette s
spleen, and feel that the great heart
of the Republican organization pulse
ties wi b his own on the points involved |
in the Louisiana controversy The |
Tribune again says in a later Issue:
The situation at Washington is eI
citing and sensational. but not neces |
sarily alarming. Mr. Blaine has, in a
striking manner, enforced the point |
that if the Hayes electors were lawfully /
chosen in Louisiana. and if. by the GER
titicate OF the same returning Board,
on the same ballots, Packard had
thousand more votes than Hayes, it is
impossible TO unseat Packard without
declaring that Hayes should be unseat
ed too. The proposition is tolerably
plain one, and there is no eridence
that any friend Of Ifr. Hayes seeks 70
dispute 10.
And yet, the Gazette and kindrej
sheets. with the cOtterie nf politicians
the same views, would
have US understand that Mr.. HAYES
himself disputes it. for they assert that
Mr.. Blaine lis making war upon the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Pres
Identis Southern policy, &C." when
the sum and substance of the whole
matter is that Mr. Blaine is simply war
ring agrinst II junta which has bee. str
wing TO shape the Presidents policy ac
,ording to their ideas of what il should
De. The President is in no haste 70
make known the means he intends to
Use TO secure good government in the
South, but man who really knows
B. Hayes, will regard him
capable of sacrificing ri9ht for eIped
ency or compromise justice for the
'ake of gain. He will be found always
-eady TO do justice and equally ready
20 exact it. In other words. In order
% secure and maintain the rights of
III. the rights OF all must be recognized ;
md respected. There will be no yield /.
ng to mere popular clAnor in order to
,oncilliste the clainorers. Tie Toledo !.
has a word on this sub
ect that mag be read with profit: III
Those journals have gone off on a q
angent TO strike at Senator Blaine
nay as well go a little slow and take
hings easy yet awhile. Mr.. Blaine {
las rendered too much valuable $: rvice
n behalf of Republican principles. to
De entitled to the abuse that is now |
'ring showered upon him from certain
quarters. We d. not understand that d
le has made any attack upon the I'D y
or upon its policy. His 7