The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-04-04
Ghe Bulletin.
PHILLIPS ON HAYES.
Ola W e0sieii POurs Out the walls OF
Hts wrath On abe A administration

! FROM Ntbbci ihilips speech a, Ibla-
dephia March %
Hayes cabinet reminds one Of a story
Of Turner, the English painter He had
hung up at the exhibition painting sui.
dued IN color. As he studied il on the
wall, the canvass seemed TO fade ont OF
SIGHT in the presence OF its bright rivals.
Alter gazing awhile, Turner flung d drop
oil bright red on the center Of his piece,
and the picture glowed into startling
effect. 30 ] can see Hayes gathering his
cabinet. There Is Sherman, who will
| leave name linked to no measure or
iuea-his only record that he entered
! congress poor and leaves it rich. Evarts
reminds one OF the Protestant riots in
! London when men chalked on their
| closed shutters mo popery" TO conciliate
| the mob. one timid citizen, anxious to
| stand well with both sides. chalks up
| ''no religion Amid this ea,h-grappe
| between caste and the Declaration of In
dependence, Evarts writes on his flag
mo principles Then comes Schurz,
the Swiss soldier. always to let. Hay,.
gaZed at the cOlorless piece, which was
hardly visible.
SUDDENLY HE REMEMBERS sLAvE.HoUND
Owens,
the low mGnotony of whose lie rose
only once into noticeable iniamy, when,
with his own hands, he put chains on
Thomas Sims and dragged him down
State street. Hayes flung the blooG-red
drop on the canvass, and, behold il
glows immortal--the slave-hound cabi-
net Perhaps you will say Deyens
sinned long ago; so did Judas Iscariot.
And Judas besides rcpcnted and hung
himself. II DeYcns had done that, Juda.
would have no r ght TO resent the com
in Of
and after eighteen hundred years. | hear !
OF no proposal to add Saint Judas To
Nark, Luke and John. No years can
swecten a slave catcher, any more than
the whole ocean could cleanse La3y Mac.
5eh's bloody hand. | can forgive
foote and Long street; D'Conor, who
voted Tor slavery: yes, and Lincoln, who
helped extend the area OF slave-hunting:
for remember where all Of them lived
aud were born. But the being base
enough actually, with his own hands 10
crush back into slavery the hero who /
proved his title and fitness for freedom |
By the courage Of flight, such hound 1
has, In this world, no forgiveness. IL j. 4
not safe, considering the moral training
OF the world. to risk iorgiying such a
one. \ Mass achusetts man. in the full
blaze Of anti. slavery truth, in the city of
Claiming, Parker and Garrison, 10 vol
unteer at slave-catching such hound
should ever after hc hidden in privacy !
and hermitage: he has no night 10 OBJ
trude himself on the disgust OF mankind.
''\'N az" T6ItablG. The C'eINrr
Sherman. never an abolitiouist, neither
knows nor cares about his history.
Eyarts receives him with the suaSe iuuli-
ference OF one who j. everything By
turns and nothing long Nchurz has
neither brain nor heart enough To under
stand why slave. hunting should discredit
any one, proyid dit pays well. Key, az
Cusioined like all Southeners, 10 use
slave catchers and despise them, make.
no effort 10 hide his disgust. such q
cabinet, q slaye-hound cabinet, TO pilot
this ship tossed Oh the hot indignation
OF twenty million Northerners and The
treless hate OF ten million al the south
Only "gushN and idocy would dream
Of such Il thing, A gushing thing was :
the younger tecksnltf; bur that love
sick girl would not take passage on
such craft. What name shall We give
To the cool and barefaced assumption
which claims that tie cabinet represents
all the elements OF our politics: W here
DO YOU ind in it the element which !
Blaine. Morton and Butler stand for
Without that Idea in the forefront of the
canvass Iilden would be to-day in the
white house, and the Republicans not
only defeated but BUNDLED by their
humiliation. Every !
other element appears in the cabinet
/ his ouly-the Hamlet OF the piece--is
omitted. There is Eyarts, who represents
the neutrals-men so Indifferent that IN
this battle vi giants and struggle OF prin-
ciples, they could see nothing either in
. hn Rantf l,l, - Tt Z
worth working for. SchurZ stands Tor
the treachery, self-conceit and morbid
that rebelled with Greeley.
hey brings in Iildeu and secession.
Deyens keeps fresh before US the men
who ate dirt aud wore collars in the old
pro slavery days. II the presidential
canvass had contained only these forces,
Hayes would dwell quietly to-day III
OHIO.
BLAINE ASDT HE BLOODY SHIRT ELECIED
OUR PRESIDENT.
During the long doubt OF December
and January the only words that reached
us from Gov. HAYES was the assurance
how "deeply he ielt for the negroes, how
he pitied them if the count should show
Tilden elected He knew well enough
then what chord would reach the ma
tons heart and make men pray for his
success. IfTilden had been counted in,
what more would the South have asked
OF him; what more would he have dared
TO do than to withdraw the troops.
Fancy Hayes proclaiming in October
that he contemplated calling home the
troops. II the telegraph had announced
such purpose on his part, that moment
the canvass would have virtually ended
and Tilden would have walked
uncnallenged over the course. Ii the
Cabinet calls home the troops, | affirm
they hold seats which have been obtain
ed on false 'pretenses. Besides, the al
most unyarying custom and courtesy of
our politics is tor the president TO offer
to the next strongest candidate OF his
party the position of secretary of state.
When Hayes omitted this offer to Blaine,
and. further, excluded from his cabinet
the idea Mr.. Blaine represents, he not
only insulted Blaine, he revealed himself
"a purposly betraying the ranks that
elected him. But Lamar and Hill
soft tbipUs Nac wbiln