The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-10
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., Aug. 6, 1878. |
The disinterested patriots who have |
thus far laid Mr.. HeWitt's Commit
tee on the State of Labor, and the
country under such load of Obliga-
cation by their Invaluable sugges-
tons and advice, are not of a charac-
ter to inspire much confidence in the
utility of anything to be drawn from
such source. "Citizen SchWab'
has presented some original views
and majority of all who have been
accorded a hearing occupy similar
relations to the several factions that
have gained an equiYOcal nOteriety
by the peculiar social or labor doe
trine they advocate, as SchWab does
to the communists proper. While
the Democratic politician of New
York State and city naturally looks
to the element represented by SchWab
and the leaders of the ruftian classes
generally for support, there is no
good reason why the Government
should appropriate money to aid Mr..
Hewitt to effect the alliance Lieu
tenant Governor Dorsheimer failed
of accomplishing. 1t would be no
more ridiculous for Congress to APP
point Committee to ascertain the
views of Cohen or any other of the
vagabondS prominently identified
with the riotous demonstrations here
the other day, than for Hewitt to
call in such bIatherskites as SchWab
and his fellow agitators to aid in SOL
wing great social and economic prob
lens.
Notwithstanding the hot weather
the Republican Congressional Com
mittee has been vigorously pushing
the preliminary work of the cam
paign for a full month. On the other
hand the Bourbons have only just
begun to make preparations, every
thing seemingly waiting for Thomp-
son, of Ohio, to come and put the
machine in working order,
Congressman Fosters late speech
in accepting denomination i'll Ohio
the other day has attracted wide
spread attention and created no lit
tie sensation. 1t is regarded as sig
nificant chiefly because of Fosters
leading part in the adoption of the
"Southern policy" and Of his init
mate relations with the President as
friend and counsellor. According to
the report Of the speech received
here, he repudiateS all further re-
sponsibility for amy further adher-
ence to a course that has demonstra-
ted the utter lack OF gratitude of the
Southern politician and that has en-
Outraged the whole South to hope
and labor for a resurrection OF the
"lOst cause" Some of its fruits are
seen in the "Solid South" of to-day,
and Foster advises a North equally
solid. In short it is what the eX rebel
and Bourbon dough face would stig-
Matte asan intensely "bloody shirt
utimatum. Nothing known to the
public indicates that the President
| shares Fosters convictions in the
premises. But the speech is regard
ed as a notification on the part OF
one of the joint originatOrs Of a
method of Cancellation that eifectu-
ally destroyed his party throughout
| the sc. S. AN-that he has had more
than enough of it until the south
shows some sense of appreciation OF
what was done for her, abandOns hel
purpose of despoiling the Treasury
and ceases to cheer the reasonable
utterances of unshriYen traitors who
plunged her into rebellion. Hamp'
| toms proclamation to Ku kluX muir.
derers that they may come out o.
their hiding places without fear that
the Government will modest them fol
past crimes, is followed by a report
that the President has amnested the
whole batch of Illicit distillerS in tina
State. A very ominous reticence has
been observed in Cabinet circles fol
the past " hours relative to the inn
prisoned revenue officials in Hamp
toms Kingdom, in strange contrast
with the assurances previously giver
that the supremacy of the Govern
ment should be Vindicated and the
bully KershaW be made 10 swallow
his defiant boasts. But the officials
still remain in prison subject at al
times to visitation from the mob
which papers from that section tel
may happen at any time if we are
not more respectful to the great and
good man" and his Courts Of Jus,
tice."
Congressman Springer openly says
that Hayes will be impeached next
session on the testimony elected be
fore Potter's Committee. None know
| how Slipht a preteXt Democracy will