New-York tribune., 1877-06-02

OF South Carolina are up in arms against Gov. Cham
berlain because he is an adventurer and they have
not been trusted or because he denounced the muir
dcrers and proclaimed the riots and suppressed the
military mobs that were teuorizng the colored vo-
tcrs To which shall the soldiers Of the United
States present arms, Gov. Tilden ordering the noml
nation of Hampton, the Cincinnati platform
pledging protection to all citizensl Shall side
with Chamberlain aud law and The Adrertiser
Monday. or with Democracy and murder and The
Adratisa on Wednesday! Which is Philip drunk
and which is Philip sober3
And will The Adrcrtiscr kindly inform its rural
readers by what trust, by what consultation, by the
abnegation of what authority or responsibility it
proposes to coIcliate the iTTeconcilablef
"There an old man who said how
Shall flee from tins horrible cow
will sit on a stile
And continue 20 SMILE
Which may soften the heart of this cow
The result of this experiment has never been re-
corded but the wood-cut which illustrates its pro-
gress is not encouraging Yet the Boston papers
seem to cling to it with childlike aud touching faith
Having submitted to Gov. Tilden's dictation. aud
the Hamburg murders, and the Ellenton riots and
the military clubs, and the deserton of Chamber
lain The Boston Journal suddenly refuses 10 stand it
any longer, and boldly announces that Hamptons
course will be carefully watchcd' 1t is not easy to
depict the CONSERVATION that must seize upon Wade
Hamptons heart when he learns that his race is run,
for The Boston journal is sitting on the ste, Mary,
and looking at him.
In addition to this they tell that prominent
and influential Democrats viii be sent through the
interior counties and parishes of Louisiana and
South Carolina, for the purpose Of explaining TO the
whites the exact situation
Yet | greatly fear the men of Hamburg and Ellen
ton and East Feliciana ranged in a semi-crcle
Ion
their bowe-llniyes, the other on their pstolswill
with difficulty he persuaded that they do not under
stand the exact situation as well as their Northern
teachers. But concliatiOn has taken SO llrm hold
on the Boston mind that cannot record the dinner
given to Speaker Randall at the Parker House with
ont noting the startling fact that the speeches
were made lin cOnclliatOry spirit" Usually, 1
suppose the Boston papers would give us to under
stand that in polite society outside of Boston, when
a complimentary dinner Is given TO a gentleman, the
hosts and guests 60 at each other shovel and tongs
Never until now' says the innocent AGr0fiso,
in a trance of eXaltation over the Electoral Com
mission. "ucver until now have the people known
political question of this magnitude TO be taken alb
solutely ont Of the hands of the political managers
And four DAYS afterward this new invention having
been wound up, and going, began to click out its
eight TO seven eight to seven, eight to seven, just
if il had been an old political machine!
On Dec. II, a committee OF which Secretary Shcr-
man was chairman, reported that
Organized clubs cf masked men, formed and recon-
melded 10y the Central Democratic committee. rode
through the country at night marking th,r course by
whipping. shooting. wOundinc manning. inutiaiius, ard
murder OF women. children, and dceuseess men, whose
houses forclby entered while they slept, and as
their inmates fed through fear, the pistol, ihe Te me
KNIFE, and the rope were employed 10 90 thcir eorlid
work Grimes lie these. testified 10 by sc0reso WY
ncsses, the means employed ia Louisiana 10 eject
President OF the United States and wien they snail sue
ceed the SloIios OF the Republic VIII nave departed.
On Feb. Is, Mr.. Evarts said:
If the Federal power ROW leaves these m
beflitnded, mcductcd, simple black people 90 Tie fate
that you VIII have made them by that action Ac victims
Of y0ur Constitution. say that You make them tlc
Rebellion. say that such sclfabasemeut Of the powers
Of this Government is beyond all cute II teaches tHc
sad lesson that the American people finds il eli
thWartcd by the eXhbitonsf violence by this turbulent
population and forced with its own hand to cgusA the
On March Tie Boston Jomnol says:
In common with vast majority, Of the Republican
in the United states President Hayes pas 40 dQupt
Whatever as 40 the validity OF The ute thronsh Wmch
Packard and Chamberlain We become dc fdcto GOV
cinors. But = ny indications are that ne WI nave
~ waive his convictions as To ne Ight "d Justice o.
the matter ana bow 10 the inevitable law OF force.
What we, the people. desire to know is whether
John sherman and f. W. StouShton and Eugene
Hale and J. 4. Garfield and the other men who
signed that report were merely making out and
making up case to influence the decision for tho
Presidency OF whether they were telling the truth.
If they were loving aud making a lie why was it
detected after tho Ath OF March aud not detected
bcfoIol If they were loving and making a lie then
the worst charges Of the Democrats against the
Republican party arc true. The Republican leaders
have deceived and betrayed their honest followers
into great inquity and the Republican newspapers
have been blind leaders Of the blind, or worse. If
+oIIip0 tho trufh .tnuotuppt has
the Central Democratic Committee made for the
whippings and murders which il organized what sub
mission has il offered TO the lawful Government,
what change has passed into the Constitution of ne
United States since Feb. 1G, what dimnution has
come TO her might that the simple black people
should have been yielded up as victims; that the
Government should have been mcurablY abased :;
that the American people should find itself thwartcd
by the exhibition of violence, and forced with its
own hand 10 crush the methods Of law! What hap
pencd between Feb. 1G and March TO make it
necessary that the National Administration should
waive its convictions Of right, and for the first time
in its history suffer defeat and abase itself beyond
cureg Whence did Boston derive authority to pro-
claim that the American Republic had reached that
point in its history where it could 10 longer main
the right, but must yield to brute forcel
Last Winter, only this very last Winter, pretty
young Southern girl just emerged from childhood,
q bright innocent aficctOnate girl, was qucening it,
as a young girls nalienabe right 1t is to do, among
the young people in Washington. How gay and
gentle and sweet she was! When the time came TO
20 to their sunny South her father said, am going
home to DE murdered" And murdered he was and
murdered was his young son, throwing himself vany
between his faherand his father assassns; and ur-
dcrel was the fair young daughter yainly shielding
her father with her clinging warm white arms. ]
think the worlds annals hold 40 higher heTOisn