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National Republican., 1878-10-15
THE .yLooDy SHIRT" POLICY.

1t Is now announced that the De EIcto Execu.
tive ut Washington means to substitute the
bloody shirt policy for the South IN place of
the policy Of local sel.g government and Of peace
OH earth and goodwill TO man, with which
he sought in such pretty and pathetic sen.
tences in Atlanta and other places to please
the patriotism Of the country and to put TO
rest the outcry against the frauds and per-
jures that placed him in power.- Montgomery
lAia) AdreriSer.
We now begin to see what the South
means by the bloody shirt" policy. So
long as the provisions and requirements u
the Constitution and the Statutes of the
United States remain inert, and Rcpubli-
cans in Alabama and elsewhclcrrc dcspoilcd
of their rights of citizenship or their lives
with impunity, the "pcacc on earth ana
GOODWILL to man policy prevails, But
when the President Of the United States, in
accordance with his sacred oath, requires of
the people of the South that they shall re-
spcct the Constitution and the laws as they
are respected in every Northern State by
all classes, then he is charged with substi-
tuting the bloody shirt This is the
question in nutshell. Neither the
President nor any other Republican
desires to interfere with any policy
OF local State government so far as it relates
to the laws passed for the government. of
that Commonwealth and 50 long rs they are
not in conflict with the Constitution and
laws of the United States No one desires
to interfere with any of its laws for the
preservation of the public peace and the
punishment of crime, or for other purposes
within the limits of STATE jurisdiction, But
! it must be kept In mind that the sacred
right of citizenship Is guaranteed by the
Constitution and laws of the United States
aud that the Chief Magistrate Of the Nation
National Republican., 1878-10-15

Is bound by . solemn oath 10 sec that the
requirements and guarantees Of the Consti-
tuition are hold inviolatc by the people Of all
the States In the Union, and 10 insist upon
rigid regard for and enforcement Of the
United States Statutes in each an d every
State North and South. This is what Pres
ident HAYES proposes to do in the
pending election, and IL Is for this,
and this alone, that he is now
being reviled rs the President de Jncto and
as q fraud by the very men and presses who
but o few months ago were singing peans in
his praise, because they then thought that
he Ind abandoned those citizens in the
South who cling to the Republican faith to
the tender mercies of the bull-dozers and
the red-shirt rifle-clubs.
In this we are not at oil disappointed
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, foresaw this
more than year ago, and raised the cry of
danger; and for that it was then derided rs
q bloody shirt publication, as the Prcsi-
dent is now rs bloody shirt !" Executive.
The President has been grossly deceived.
lie trusted these men. They gave him the
most positive assurance that the require
ments of the Cor stitution, the laws Of the
United States, and the rights Of citizenship
should be respected and preserved in all
tho States OF the South, aud he
implicitly believed that they were acting
in good faith. He has trusted them for
more than year, hoping That he had not
been deceived, and in all that time he has
permitted the Southern States to demon
stratc the measure of their faith by their
acts. The time has come, however, when
II is revealed in impartial history that HI
was deluded by false professions. The Con
stitution and the laws are not respected
the rights of citizenship are not protected
On the contrary, no Republican in Alabama
Mississippi, or South Carolina is secure ii
liberty, property, or life, unless he will sur
render his political opinions and the fire.
and full exercise of his rights rs citizen
the United States. The President declare
to those States that the rights of the citizei
must and shall be respected and protected
and for this he is assailed with contumel.
and abuse and is charged with waving tn
"bloody shirt" We say, now let it wave
until the rights of the citizen are secur'
everywhere.
National Republican., 1878-10-15
DIED.

LiGHTFo0T.-Monday mornIns. October u, 1873,
at three O'Clock at his dence - Fourth street,
GrorgetoSn, ID. e., DASIEI. NJ. LlaHrfoOr, oldest
son OF Daniel LightiOot Of TennallytOwn, ID: C., de.
Heayen Church, New York City, to lply whUse
maiden name was Mara =. KilmUre. She was the
granddaughter Of William kilmore. deceased, Of re
dar Hill, on the Hudson River, N. Y, and the grand
daughter OF James Schoonmaker. Enuwn ns tabus
SchOonmaker. They were both HOllnnLers and both
old revolutionary veterans. two Of the oldest and
most highly respected aud wcatheSt citizens oi Beth
elem County, y. Y. Her parents Omgraiel south,
where she was brought up.
The funeral Will take place ffom Trinity Church
where high will be said for the rep OF his soul
and thence to Oak Iiill Cem'tsry.
IAlbA and tOugm ln please Copv.
National Republican., 1878-10-15

AT the very inception OF the so-called
POTTER Title Investigation the Republican
press of the country demanded n thorough
exposure of all the secret history Of the
campaign of 1S76. The Hon" POTTAH
knew what this demand meant; knew that
it wOuld remove the Brand of Fraud, rs il
has been iacetiously called, from where II
does not belong to the brow Of the Demo-
cratic Claimant, and knew that such an ex-
posure would have no very pleasant inhu-
encc for the Democracy in the campaigns
that have just passed. Because Of this
knowledge the committee refused to take up
any branch OF the subject to be investigated
except those which it was supposed would
reflect upon the Republican managers. But
now the truth is out Tho New York Tri-
Juuc's trnnslations Of the Gramercy Park
cipher have accomplished all and more than
was to have been expected in demonstrating
the completely Of the Democratic candidate
in the frauds and attempted corruptions OF
that campaign. When Congress treassem-
bles the committee will not, dare not, refuse
any longer to take up the other side of the
question, although unlike their Republican
contemporaries, we do not note very unan-
imous demand lfy the Democratic press for
a sweeping inquiry.
National Republican., 1878-10-15
THE DUTY oFTHE HOUR.

The people of the South may be COM
pelled at no distant day to take potion Of
their own medicine from the National Capt.
tai, where the Executive has the power to
sustain tho Constitution and enforce the
laws. In the Southern States the Demo-
Gratis declare that the Constitution and laws
Of the United States shall be subordinated
to State Sovereignty, and shall not be en-
forced within their territory. This is vir-
tually the state Of affairs in South Carolina
to-day, and this Is virtual revolution, and
may be so declared by the Federal power,
and that declaration will be sustained by
the people of the United States in the light
Of the history of this hour. The Republican
citizens of the South to-day are overawed,
trodden down, and deprived of their rights
by the authority Of the State governments.
The Constitution Is treated with contempt,
the laws of the United States are insulted
and despisod, and the President OF the
United States is openly defed and derided
in his authority, and so far the Government
is powerless, except under resort to arms.
The South is In insurrection and revolution
to-day, and by virtue Of the Statutes of the
United States the Executive is clothed with
full power to call upon the militia of the
several States to put down insurrecton and
crush incipient revolution. And If this
matter is pushed much further that call
should be made and this grave question
should be put to the test at once. If this
leads to war, let 1t come. 1t were better that
the North should be reduced to slavery
at the point of the bayonet, if it must come
to that, than that those who once saved the
nation from rebellion shall tamely bow
their necks to the yoke and submit to fet-
tiers without an effort to resist them under
the Constitution and by every means
within their reach while they are free.
Liberty or death should be tho watchwortl
ofall men who are not willing to be slaves
to those who are guilty of treason to the
Constitution and the laws. The President
has submitted to the insOlenCe OF proscrip-
tive and murdcrous party as long as pa
tienco will tolerate, and now let him rise to
the magnitude of the occasion and vindi-
cate the Constitution, the laws, and the
right at all hazards, and all loyal people will
stand by him in his constitutional efforts
to sustain the majesty OF the laws.
National Republican., 1878-10-15

No HONEST or unpreiudiced man will
deny the assertion that South Carolina is
to-day practically in rebellion again. The
United States authorities are deGed by the
Moonshincrs, the citizens protect the MUIR
derers Of United States officers from arrest
and deserved punishment, and the militia,
under the leadership of the Red-Shirt Dem
ocracy, is engaged in multiplying the consti-
tutional amendments by DISTINGUISHING the
colored voters of the State. This, in brief,
is the situation which is now brought to the
attention of the President 1t remains to
be seen whether his hands are so tied by
the infamous restrictive enactments Of the
Democrats in Congress that he cannot do
his duty in protecting American citizens
from outrage.
National Republican., 1878-10-15

The report is made public that President
HAYES was frequently annoyed and EN-
barrussed during the last session of Congress
by Senator BEN HILLS vehement support
of his administration. Just now the We
hemence is developed in directly contrary
way. He certainly failed to secure the of
fetal favor he sought In the first instance,
and il seems probable that the failure will
be repeated, now that he has assumed the
character of brow-beator. He must know
that if nothing else will deter the Admins
tration from extending any recognition TO
him under existing circumstances, the inti-
nation that this brow-beating course has
been adopted by HIM to ilighten the Presi-
dent.would have that effect. At any rate, he
stands in the attitude of one who has re-
iected Cancellation and Is attempting to
force more Of il.
National Republican., 1878-10-15
dation in that he Is one OF the hardest OF hard
ma

dauon in that he Is one OF the hardest OF hard.
money men.-POrtiund Pres.
THE Louisville CDnrisr.JoWnni remarks that
perhaps the ohio Democrats had better fall back
on that portion OF tho National Democratic platform
which declares that RcfOrm Is ncccssary " estab.
lish sound currency, restore the Hiblic credit,
and maintain the national honor" Tho deuce Of
II IL that rs rs the Democrats take stand the
people break for the other side.
JUDGE L. +. -FRtSBY has accepted the Republican
nomination for Congress In tho fourth district Of
Wisconsin, and says Of the conventions platform
ITO repeat and make the same more emphatic, II
possible, on the financial question, which deem
all important, am in favor of honest money, and
a return 10 specie payment on the lst day Of Jan.
uary next" Judge frisby will canvas. the district
thoroughly. II Is now rcpresentedby W. +. Lynde,
Dtmocrat
GEsERAL GARFIELD gave the secret Of the great
victory in Ohio In brief speech at Cleveland while
the news was coming In; "All OF our men every.
where" he said, have made Q superb fight, fight
with barcd sword-with no cotton around the
blade" That Is the way the fight must be made
everywhere. The indianapolis Journal says the
Republicans lost somo Consrcsmen In Indiana
simply because they wero weak backed oil the
money question, and II Is undoubtedly right The
way 10 defeat the Democratic a irecnback coalition
is TO strike at It with "barod sword" and to strike
whenever and wherever there Is q chance.-Net
York Trthuus
National Republican., 1878-10-15

IT is recorded that Talk.a-lIeap BLACK
BURN, of the Democratic Campaign Com
mittee, fingered at Cincinnati until after the
election was over last week for the purpose
of making a speech at the Democratic 'ju-
"bilation meeting which he confidently
expected would he held in honor of the
election of SAYLER and Goss Wednesday
evening he skipped across the river into the
dark and bloody ground of his own State.
1t is true the election had been held and the
votes had all been counted; but
The subsequent proceedings interested him
no more"
National Republican., 1878-10-15

Is the defense Of the right and for the
protection OF tie sacred privileges Of Amer
lean citizenship the President should not
hcititc in the South Carolina case to go to
the extreme limit Of the law, despite the
Democratic threats OF Impeachment and all
that sort Of thing, based, us they are, upon
the assumption that he cannot protect Re-
publicans in that State from outrage with
out violating the poss' comhofus act The
White League Democracy down there do
not hesitate to take the law in their own
hands t make laws for themselves and
thereby bid defiance to all other authority.
As a measure to offset this violence the use
OF every power at the Presidents tommanI
would be approved by every law-abidiug
and loyal citizen in the country. The OPP
portunity for an heroic assertion Of his de-
yoton to the principles of good govern
mcnt is at hand. Will he embrace it?
National Republican., 1878-10-15

IT now looks as If General HUSToS Is
not to have it all his own way In the eighth
Virginia district. Colonel JAMES CoCH-
RAN. OF Culpeper County, has announced
himself rs an independent candidate, and
expects TO secure the Republican vote. He
enters the field rather late in the canvass to
hope confidently that he may carry the dis
trict against General HUNTON's G,400 ma
jority in 1870. An earlier bird might have
caught more worms. Colonel COCHRAN
will address the people of Alexandria on
Friday evening next.
National Republican., 1878-10-15
manner ::
THE Wall or TuE WOUNDED.

I The POst-erior Of yesterday sends up the
wall on account Of the chastse-
ments it has received under great prOvOca-
ton from THE NATIONAL REPuBLICAN;
The editor Of THE REPUBLICAN will do well
to begin his political account with Mr.. HUTCH
ms on the 9Th day of December which Is tho
date of the establishment Of the Post in Wash
ingtOn.
1t occurs to us that the Post-eror would
have done well ii ii had begun its political
account with the editor Of The RErrDLT-
CAN on the date which it names 1t began
National Republican., 1878-10-15

THE simple name of. GRANT is to the
prosecuted and despoiled blacks of the
South very tocsin of safety, and to the
Republicans Of both races in that section
an encouragement which is the equivalent
of determination and ultimate victory.
The cane-brakes, piney woods, and wire
grass regions would pour forth votes and
voters by the thousands To risk everything
for his reelection, because the blacks look
upon him as their political savior. The
Solid South would exist only in the past,
in the event of his denomination, for the
machinery OF the polls, in Democratic
hands though it may now be, would then
be controlled by the overwhelming infiu-
ence of great national passion to secure
freedom of citizenship and honesty of elec-
tions throughout the length and breadth Of
the land.
National Republican., 1878-10-15
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National Republican., 1878-10-15

AT times the New York Herald has been
exceedingly partial to General BEN But
LER, and has been accused of desiring his
success in his pending political endeavors.
Under recent lights, however, and especially
those shed upon The Widows career by
General BoYNToS In tho Cincinnati Ga
rette, the Herald has changed its course-a
fact which of itself would hardly be note
worthy but in this instance the change
has been for good reasons, which are em-
braced in General BoYNToSs exposure of
his connection with the FARRAGUT prize
cases. 1t now says:
lie (BUTLER) must answer and explode these
charges or his political prospects are ruined.
But it Is not fair 10 judge him on an or pdrte
statement unless he cOufesses Judgment by
silence. The case Is very ugly one as pre-.
sentcd. The enormous fees received by Gen
eral BUTLER make but a small! part of the ac-
cusatiOn. The gravamon of the charge Is that
prize money was claimed and recovered for
large numbers of vessels which belonged to
loyal owners und were restored, or which on
other grounds were not sub jeCts of prize. The
operation is described as wholesale plundeT
of the Treasury by the permission of legal
forms, and unless the facts are misstated OF
| ovcrstatcd tho charge Is not groundless. Gen.
oral BUTLER will have quito enough to do fol
the present In trying to parry these damaging
accusations. 1t will be futile for him to &C
about the State eleCtioncering while they are
hanging unreiutcd over his head.
National Republican., 1878-10-15

THE Chicago Times suggests the possibility
that the Democrats may nominate General
GRANT in lssO, and asks: who knows
what year may bring forth ?" Of course,
this is mere possibility; but it is cer-
tainty that large numbers Of Democrats the
country over will vote for him in 1sSO, by
whomsoever he may be nominated. There
are enough GRANT Democrats in Virginia,
for example, to carry that State for him
again as they carried it in '6S and '72.
National Republican., 1878-10-15

The New York Times is very earnest in
expressing the hope that Hon. S. d. CHIT
TESDEN may be renominated for Congress
in the third Congressional district of New
York. We feel assured that the Republicans
oil tho district can do no better than to
crafty the wish of the Times, for SIr. CHIT
rESDEN is not only faithful, but fear
less man in the discharge Of his duty.
National Republican., 1878-10-15

THE Kingston n. " Freeman, in refer
ring to DE LAMATYR, who was formerly n
resident OF the State of New York, and was
defeated as II Republican candidate for
State Prison Inspector, says; "A Republic
can in New York State who wasn't good
" enough for State Prison Inspector makes
"a good enough conglomerate Democratic
land GreenbaCk Congressman from the
" Democratic State OF Indiana"
National Republican., 1878-10-15
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National Republican., 1878-10-15

THEY say that the Hon. GoDLovE s.
ORTIZ has been returned to Congress by
" the skin of his teeth" The record shows
that he is elected by twenty-one majority,
which shows that his jaws must be in very
good condition-good enough to masticate
the political grub that will be set before
him during the next Congress, and that Is all
that Is necessaIH
National Republican., 1878-10-15

The death of EUGENE A. CRoNIN just at
this time is not, perhaps, proper subject Of
merrment; but an irreverent correspondent
writes to ask If TILDES will cipher him,
now that he has gone. It was CRoSrS's
fate to play the part Of q Great Luminary, so
to speak, in his immediate political world,
and 1t seems the worst that can be said Of
him is that he was Tildenitc.
National Republican., 1878-10-15

\ PRIVATE letter received here by
friend from W. NJ. TwITCHELI- United
States Consul at Kingston, Canada, conveys
the gratifying information that the writer
is very pleasantly situated; that the
people up there ARE much more friendly
to carpet-baGgors than they are in either
Louisiana or Georgia. and that scars re-
ccivcd in the Federal army are not con-
"sdercd badge of dishonor." Mr..
TwITCHELL will be remembered by our
readers as one of the victims of the Cou-
shatta (La.l outrage, from which he es-
capped assassination with the loss of both
arms. lie was at that time Senator in
the State Legislature and q leading Repub-
lican in the Red River section. He is now
the sole survivor Of the family of TwITCH-
ELLIS, all the rest Of whom, in May, ls7G,
were murdered by the Ku-Klux and
White LeagueTs, ut or near Coushatta.
Since his arrival in Canada he
has received information that the
murderous mscreants have pursued their
vengeance against him so far as to Rssassinate
Mr.. J. W. HARRISON, his agent, whom lie
affairs. The Kingston (Canada) Ntlrs speaks
of him in the following complimentary
manner:
Reference is made to the attempted assassi-
nation Of Mr.. TWITCHELI, who for some time
was State Senator in Louisiana and who is
now the representative Of the United States
Government IN this city. Mr. TwIrCnELL Is
afflicted physically as few men arc-the result
Of "A diabUlical plot "f political opponents to
deprive him Of bis life. As soldier he served
his country faithfully on the field Of battle
but there although wounded several times,
the effect, oI the cnciyy', bullets did not prove
so uiuriou, Il, those Of the political assassin,
Political feeling must run very high when
such diubolicul 0utraGes are pcrptratcd as
those referred to by the OTcspOudent. We
may state here that since he hls come to re-
side among us Mr TwITCHELL has manifested
an interest IN our affairs and has gained fol
himself the esteem Of all with whom ho has
come In contact,
National Republican., 1878-10-15

IT Is intimated that Mr.. TILDEN is pre-
pairing a statement for the public eye, in
which he will disclaim all connection with,
and responsibility for, any cipher dispatches
proposing the corrupt use of money to in
auence the action of the returning board or
Presidential electors in 1S76. Thou canst
not say did it,"
National Republican., 1878-10-15

THE Rev. TALMAGE says that criticism is
like crash towel, aud he likes to be
rubbed down with it, This is very neat
simiIe. and if his cuticle is not made of
gutta percha We should think lie would be-
Yin to smart under the iulirton.
National Republican., 1878-10-15

THOSE books OF the Marquette Mining
Company should have been kept in cipher.
The Hon" GEORGE W. SMITH, atlas SAM
TILUEN, alias GOBDDLE, &c, would then
have been freed from the temptation to
which he yielded to commit burglary.