The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
Mr.. Blair's Resolution.

On Thursday of last week the Blair
memorial came up for consideration
in the House.
Mr.. Blair moved to substitute the
memorial and resolutions for the re-
port, and had read two resolutions
which he said he proposed to offer as
a substitute for those originally offer
ed by him. Mr.. Blair advocated the
passage of his resolutions in rather
prosy speech.
Mr.. Johnston Democrat said he
had great respect for his friend from
Montgomery county, but he could
never keep his seat while such a
wholesale sIander against the people
of the South was sought to be put in
the mouth of the Maryland Legisla-
ture. If there was no other to stand
up and Vindicate the conservative
course Of those S uthern gentlemen
in Congress who had been assaiIed,
he would take the responsibility and
do it. He claimed that this conser-
Vative attitude during the trying
period of the Electoral count had
silenced the base accusations against
the South, which had been continu-
ally hurled against them since the
war, that they were ready for new
rebellion, and not sincere in their
profession of having. accepted the
situation, and now it was sought to
be charged that they We're swinders
and cheats. He reviewed the occur
reDCes in the South since the war at
length, and argued that the South
hern question was the great question
in settling the Presidency, and that
the matter Of Tom -SCott's Pacific
Railroad was a mere drop in the
bucket in comparison to it. He re-
ferred to the division of opinion in
the country at that time, and the
threatening aspect Of affairs, and
claimed that the Southern members
of Congress had assumed the conser-
vative attitude they had taken from
"A desire for peace-a lasting peace,
and to preserve the country. Now,
this Maryland Legislature is to
charge them all with being a set of
political tramps, and he for one
would put in his solemn protest. He
characterized as forgetfuIness of what
had happened in the country to as
sumo that the mere fact of HAYES
holding on to the Presidency was the
cause of the trouble and distress prev.
alent in the country, and was not
warranted by facts. He was willing
to put the seal of his condemnation
upon the manner in which Mr..
Hayes had been inaugurated, but he
did not now propose to reopen the
question and array the American
people against each other, as they
were last fall. This would be un-
wise; he would almost say, unpatri
Otic.
Mr.. Merrick Democrat referred
to the strangeness of the silence of
the House while these accusations
We're being hurled against the promi
nent men of the country. He claim
ed it was not because their courage
and pride had left them, but because
they treated the accusations with
silent scorn. He for one would not
sit silent and hear them slandered.
Some Of the best men of the land had
come to the rescue in that dark hour,
when the breasts of the nation was
sinking with fear, and now, for say
ing their land from revolution and
anarchy, they are to be denounced
as corrUptiOnists, and as having
clasped hands with lobbyists. He
even heard it said that Tom Scot
had dictated to the Speaker the op
pointments 0f the Committees of tn,