The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-07-20
THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE.
CHAMBERLAIN AND BLAINE MAKE COMMON
CAUSE.

long history of the Louisiana and South
carolina cases, and general denunciation
of the Presidents policy. attacked his civil
service policy, and proceeded as follows -
I1ook next ut the relations of this admins
lstratlon to the present financial issues
President Hayes has heretofore entitled
himself to the confidence of honest men by
his course on this question. Nothing. sir,
but the necessity of gaining support for his
: Southern policy could have induced him to
contemplate an alliance with the silver con.
spiracy, conspiracy which regards silver
:. With favor only because it has lost all virtue
ssas 0f yniuc, ,xnd al ~ ctirrency is
cheaper than greenbacks. It is the inhe
rent and unavoidable weakness of his present
position, the effect of his wretched Southern
policy, that he must conciliate an outraged
party SO farsas possible by yielding now to
the demand for the spois aud now to the de-
mand for cheap money. Again, the Repub.
lican party by all its recent platforms is
pledged to oppose the gnkAt Of .sabsidies to
\ private corporations. ~ nor Hiah who to-
Dday knows anything of the cdfront of tie in
huences which are gathering at Washington
Is Ignorant ofthe fact that vast scheme is
steadily maturing, unopppsed, if not favored,
by this administration, which aims to take
from our public domain and from our public
treasury untold subsidies to build q Southern
Pacific railway, railway for which there is
no present public need, aud from which pri-
avate eapitalists would shrink with contempt.
An the train Of this giganste Sf3ors at public
robbery will come the revival of the defunct
Northern Pacific, the building of levees on
the Mississippi, and kindred schemes sufi-
cient to again corrupt the morals an6 blast
the prosperity of the whole country and all
this is the price which must be paid for the
privilege Of overthrowing two lawful State
governments and trampling upon the princi-
pies upon which our government and insti-
tutlons rest, the rule of the ms6ority. Sir,
there are laws of moral cause and effect as
true and certain as any physical laws
NO political leader, no political party can
forfeit honor or desert principles at one point
and maintain them at another. Integrity is
indivisible. You cannot be dishonest on one
subject and honest on others The Presi-
dents Southern policy, conceived il his own
mind, alshock AID ofenccto his party, rcck-
less of justice aud of constitutional duty, if
unopposed will more and mofe weaken the
moral bonds which have hitherto, in spite of
all its failings, secured to the Republican
party the confidence Of the majority of the
most Intelligent and patriotic Americans for
more than twenty years. But fellow citi-
zens, this gathering is not for me alonc.-
Others, whose titles to your confidence and
attention are older and better than mine, are
here. The subject which have discussed
still stretches on before me, but must close.
We are summoned to the duty of exposing
and denOuncing great crime-a crime more
wanton and objectionable than the crime
against Kansas, which aroused the sleeping
conscience Of the North, and gayeits earliest
victories to the Republican party. That
crime was committed by President at the
bidding Of the party which elected him.
This crime has been committed in defiance
of the principles and pledges of the Repub-
iican party, aud in defiance of the personal
declarations and obligations of the Presi
dent.
No man who counts the cost of arraying
himself on the side of freedom and constitn.
tional principles is worthy to enlist in this
new struggle for the honor and poace ofour
country. IfIh have to-day spoken the senti.
,ments Of none but myself, be it so. Silence is
tor me cowsrdice. II, as believe, the heart
of the nation is true to the old cause, to the
principles Of free government, tothe princi.
Pics VI tuo NOuStitutIOu auu t1Q lxfeCiaraClOn
of Independence, then let it bSH kksd, let it
speak by the voices Of our Leaders let the
2 memories which haunt this day be our in
spiration. Let us walk again with Adams
and Hancock and Jefferson of our early re-
volution, with Lincoln aud Stanton and
Sumner Of the later revolution Shades of
the great founders and saviours of our loved
country be with us in this struggle Speak
to us again your great lessons of patriotism
of courage, of selEsacrifce The marble aud
bronze in which we have preserved your hu-
man forms will crumble aud corrode, but let
your unconquerable spirits never behold the
day when q blow struck at the heart of the
Republic. shall find your childrens' lips
dumb, or their hearts dismayed.
When Governor Chamberlain had con-
cluded his speech, the Rev. Mr. Stoddard,
of Fairhaven, Mass, arose and said, that he
desired with all due respect to Governor
Chamberlain to say that he believed the SEN
timontsexpressed in the address did not rep
resent tho feeling Of New England He
then called for all those who endorsed the
policy Of President Hayes to signify it, and
three hearty cheera xuoyo rive, CO.. tha De-,