The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-15

There is now travelling in the State Of
Georgia great yellow chariot. drawn 10y
four milk-white horses. Within il is a little
dried-up man, with ashen complexion,
piercing eyes, and weight less than one
hundred pounds. His voice IL thin
and sharp. Thirty years ago he was
supposed to be dying. and he IS dying
still. But during all that period he
has, like tho petrol, carccrcd in every
storm. and always found IA coscy resting
place when the elements subsidized. He has
been most prolific writer, and an cverlast-
ing speaker. His speeches would I'll many
volumes, and he has turned out Of his
hands, at a time when he could hardly
hold pom, huge. unreadahle books
Of disquisiton, to the sore dlscom-
future Of young students and the
great sorrow Of coniiding booksellers. At
his house Of Liberty Hail he has maintained
colloquics extending through days. perhaps
weeks for we never read one Of them en-
tirely through, and these burlesque- Of the
crisp, rithy, scrvccabc modern interviews
have not unfroquently found publishers.
When in the course Of his varied career he
was the editor Of u newspaper-or rather of
publication so STYLED for convenience his
secondary editorials were from nine to ten
columns long, aud his leaders eighteen to
twenty. When attending TO his duties a. a
Representative in Congress, he is pushed
into the area before the Speakers desk in
a wheeled chair, and there sits with his hat
on, and black servant behind him.
He looks like mummy painted white and
eprinkled with ashes, and talks with the
voice OF Queen CANDACE'S chamberlain. He
was never young, and he will never he
older than he Is now and has always been.
He was in ancient times Wing. and he
looks at all things through the spccthcles
he used then. When HAYES undertook 10
blow the trump of resurrection over tho
graves OF the departed Wing party, this
apparltion Of the past emerged from the
place OF sepulchre, and presented the only
response
When the histories Of the two great crimes
against the American rcpubllc-th the scce.-
sion Of 1851, and the Great Fraud Of 1916
come to be written. the name Of AIrX ASpER
ii. STEPHENS Will be- conspicuous in each
lie was not originally in favor Of secession.
The prospects of the movement wre not
good in hs eyes. He was devoted to the
system Of human slavery, and, while he Incl
dentally deprecated the inevitable carnage
and destruction, it was the apprehension Of
losing the enormous slave property OF the
South that mainly Affected him. lie made
n speech in which he demonstrated this dam
gor 1t was called Union speech, and
poiuod Inn a great deal Of uudcselvcd credit
in some ouartc."-. But it was as coll-bloodcd
n speech as ever fci.. from human lips. "lf
YOU seocde you will lOse your slaves; this
mass Of human beings nov grooming under
your hands will be emancipatcd. DO not he
in a hurry. The time has not come. mat
was the substance Of It. But when tho 80
ccseiOn took place he became the Nicc-Prosi-
dent Of the COnfederacy, and made another
speech, in which he announced that the cor
ncr stone Of the new Government was, and
ought - rCcc, human slavery This speech
was only less barbarou7 than the other.
when, in March, 1877, triumphant fraud
WAS enthroned at Washington, Mr. STE
PHENs fell down on his face before it, and he
has never yet dared to look up. lie insists
that because submission Is peace, there must
he no resistance, moral or physical. Our
institutions have been snhverted, partly by
force and partly by fraud; Il man is set up
10 rulo VI against the will Of the people; the
swarm Of lOathsOmc creatures who forged
the successive links Of the fraudulent title
are quarterod in public office from the high
est to the lowest; the moral rot thus enRen-
dorod pei vades every branch Of govern
ment, looscns the compact Of society de-
stroys confidence in the stability OF govern