The New York herald., 1877-07-05
Bl.in. and characteristics.

some time hOverlng on the cage nave taken
their plunge Mr. Blaine and Mr. Cham
berlain--or, to put them in the order of
their importance on this occasion, Mr..
Chamberlain and Mr.. Blaine-have deliv-
cred their attacks on the President. We
print their speeches elsewhere this morning.
Mr.. Chamberlains speech is long dia-
tribe against the Presidents Southern
policy, which he characterizes as a sur
render to the democrats. If Governor
Packard was not elected, he says, then Mr..
Hayes is ga usurper without shadow Of
legal right or a semblance Of lawful
authority" He describes the President as
''clutching with ready, if not eager hand" >"
the fruits ofthe Louisiana election, and at the
same time planning the overthrow of Pack
ard. He compares him contemptuously
with Buchanan, who, he says, negotiated
with men in arms to preserve the peace (;
but 'this President enters upon negotia-
tions in order that he might more surely be-
tray the friends who had trusted him and
the cause he had sworn to uphold"
He declares that Mr.. Hayes has committed
''a crime more wanton and objectionable
than the crime against Kansas" Speaking
of South Carolina, he says "the apparent
result of the election was the election Of
part of the democratic State government,
including the Governor" which is mild
way of putting it; and adds, II regard the
legality Of the government Of South Caro-
lima which represented and my title to the
Office Of Governor as perfect +; and he says,
II denounce the Southern policy as uncon-
stitutional and revolutionary, false to every
dictate of political honor, public justice and
good morals.
But most Of those who listened to him
probably remembered that Mr.. Chamber
lain confessed in March that he could not
maintain himself without troops, as he now
confesses that he was apparently" not
even elected, and, wherever the plain truth
is known, that so late as last July he was
intriguing with the South Carolina demo-
Gratis, whom he now denounces, to get them
to nominate him for Governor; that he
was so little the real Executive of the
State that he ran up to Washington
for troops after the Hamburg massacre, in
stead Of doing his duty as Governor in the
premises; and that when the democrats,
seeing this, refused to nominate him, he
Immediately allied himself with the worst
scum Of his own party, men he had but
lately denounced, in order to get from them
the republican nomination-when all this is
says about unconstitutional or revolutionary
proceedings, or about public honor or
morality, goes for little.
He must have been shocked as well as
surprised to discover that even on Mr..
Blaine his diatribe produced SO poor an
effect that the astute Maine statesman ut
terly refused to second him. Mr.. Blaine
would not even allude to Mr. Chamberlain;
he spoke as though he had slept clear
through the harangue Of his predecessor;
he knew nothing of Louisiana and
less Of South Carolina, and the pitiful
words with which Mr.. Chamberlain con-
cluded, asking if he were alone to air the
griefs Of the disappointed carpet-baggers,
got no response from the Implying Blaine.
This gentleman was probably wondering
where Mr. Chamberlain now ''hailed FROM"
and why, having been Governor Of South
Carolina only the other day, he was not now
even resident of the State. If Mr.. Blaine
were defeated for Congress we doubt if
he would Immediately move out Of Maine.
Mexico was the theme Of Mr.. Blaine, and
he gave some forcible reasons against the
annexation Of the Northern States, neatly
taking it for granted that the administration
means to grab" these States. "We may
find ourselves" he said, Sin possession Of
territory acquired at the wrong time,
located in the wrong place, inhab-
tied by an undesirable population,
adding weakness where we want
strength, discord where We need peace,
and a lack of patriotic inspiration where
we most of all need the devoted spirit of a
true American nationality" And then he
hinted that it would be nicer to have Can
ada. All right. But when Mr.. Blaine ruled
the House why did he lend his influence to
measures calculated to keep apart and not
to bring together the people Of Canada and
our own? And then he once more 'wnded
into" the South, and, we are sorry to
say, became commonplace. ''The controlling
element of the South" he exclaimed,
"holds views which are at war with the
prestige and perpetuity of the American
Union;' and SO on. Surely it is hardly
worthy of Mr.. Blaine's acknowledged abil-
tiles to spend his time in making faces at
the South.
On the whole it may be said Of this Wood
stock demonstration that as u success it was
q failure; though as failure it was very
tolerable success. But did anybody say the
republican party was not dead?
Looking the Other Way.
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