The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-21

the succession of crimes that go to make up
the cheap of history such as it is" and
Wade Hampton in recent speech paints
the picture of the wretch with a mastery
hand. Here it is:
We enter this contest under far different and
more suspicious circumstances than the last.
Then the whole power of the federal and state
governments was brought TO bear to crush us.
ALI the political machinery of the state, WELD
Was ~ e sos Of IN nse o.
q rule which was disgrace to civilization and
an offense to heaven. Bayonets in the hands
of the paid soldiery of the common country
cleaned, in palpable violation of the constltu-
ton of that country, at every polling place in
our state. Our people, broken by years of mis-
rule and oppression, were almost hopeless.
We had as the chief executive OF the United
States man whose highest conception of the
law was embodied in the findings OF a court
martial, and whose disgraceful ignorance of
tie constitution of the country was only
equalled by his shameless disregard of its most
sacred obligations. Brutal, ignorant and
drunken, he hesitated not to crush the people
of the south by the power of paid soloiery.
attempted to stifie the breath of their liberty,
and plac ng the iron heel of military oppres-
sion upon one of the thirteen original states of
the Union, he reduced it to military satrapy,
There it is; turn to the light, look at it
from any and every point of view, and it
equals in responsiveness any of the human
monsters that the world has produced
Hayes is now sitting for his picture, for he,
too, played conspicuous part in making
the heap of history" He is not like Grant
no more than a tape worm is like hooded
cobra Grant would hew his way to power
and drench the land with blood to
maintain it. Hays would crawl into Office
by pathways mapped out by perjury
and submit to the whitening scorn of an
outraged people for the sake Of his salary
Like NANCY dog he sits in the high places
by the sharp edged perjuries bargained for
by John Sherman, and with the complais.
ancy of coward wipes from his face the
saliva of an indignant people, who spit upon
| it as if il were dirt. John Sherman helped
TO make the cheap of history such as it is. "
John is secretary of the treasury, and
like hundred other scoundrels earned his
place by his rascality. John is up in the
world, and the people are taking good look
at him. Let him be painted as he appeared
in that supreme moment when he bargained
for perjury and promised federal offices as
the compensation. By all means, all the
pictures of the men who helped to make the
heap of history should be painted. The
Potter committee is now getting the detail:
of the frauds, the minutia of the
forgeues and the full text of the per
juries that enter into the 'heap OF history.
1t Is this heap of history that the radical
party depends upon to regain full control o.
the government. Upon this heap of history
the radical party asks the people to give i
control of the national house of representa-
tives. Every radical candidate for congress
indorses the heap. Every radical organ
stands square on the heap. 1t is a heap o
vile pollution. 1t is rottenness beyond de
scription. 1t is an aggregation of politica
rascality that has no parallel. 1t is heal
of history such as it is, and should b.
crammed down the throat of every radica
aspirant for congress from Maine to Cali
fornia, from the lakes to the gulf, and from
the Lake of the Woods to the mouth of tn
Rio Grande.