Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-21
OUR wASHENGTOS LETTER.


The Maine Ste ai-Warning TO Brtga-
dfers-Jehn sherman. &C.. &c
From Our Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D, c., Dec. 10, '79.
Those whom the gods would des-
was witntbe cohorts of rebellion-the
HAIRLESS, Tombses, Rhetts, Yanceys,
ct at Ons1ie genus OF the South, who
instituted secession and lis many ills,
which pauperised the South and flied
Inc land with tragedy and blood.
Thus it now is with the miserable
scoundreis III Maine-Garceion aud
his thieving associates. But the theft
of State government and Legisla-
ture by Garcelon is q Republican bles-
sing 10 dlsguise-one of the means
employed by an alrwise Providence
TO bring the dishonest Dem ocra,ic
party 10 grief. Providence has one
party in its keeping. The devil has
charge of the Democracy; therefore
Garceion is q tool of the devil, aud his
unlawful act in stealing the
government of Maine will very
soon rebound to the benefit of
the Republican party. The theft of
government By Garcelon establishes
an important principle, to-wil: that
We must next year nominate John
Sherman or some other fearless man
for the Presidency, for the Maine
thieves will doubtless again strive TO
steal that States electoral vote unless
the Republican candidate has strength
enough at his back to thro ~ maicOn-
tents and revoiutionists in the old
capitol prison, and thereby vindicate
the supremacy of the Government.
John Sherman is a quiet man,
but he is not made of the stuff that
yields to threats, and do you hear? IF
he is elected President in 1880, he will
take his seat in the White House, the
rebel bfigadiers to the contrary not
withdrawing. The brgadiers and
their ecoundrelly allies, ike Gacelor
know full well that next year affords
thsm the last chance they will ever
enjoy 10 seleea President, or rather
count him in, whether he is elected or
not. They know that when the next
census is taken the North and West
will loom up in such magnificent pro-
portions on the score of population,
and the South will dWindle into such
insignificence, that they will cease to
te even respectable factors in nations al
politics. Hence they have resolved TO
start the thievtDg game. Poor,
| wretched, viIiaiDous and scurvy
dupes! The people know you and
your methods. You have covered
yourselves with infan1y, and your
unsavory records will stick to you like
Nessus' shirt. Steal the Presidency
forsooth! Covered over as you are
with the leprosy of treason, haters and
contemners of your country's flag
and Constitution, political make-be-
lieves, gushing" shams, like whited
sepulchers, which outwardly are all
beauty and lOveliness, but inwardly
are filed with dead mems bones and
all uncieanness, you are a nice set 10
want to rule this Government. You
escaped hanging in 1865 just by the
skin of your teeth. When Andy
Johnson was threatening 10 make re-
beIlion odious by hanging ali OF you,
| you cIawled on your bellies i'll the dirt
| and became penitent.
when the devil was sick, the devil a saint
would be,
When the devil was well, the devil saint
was he"
But when the danger passed, you came
| out and showed the cloven fool,-ex-
posed your miserable carcasses, which
mad been spared by misguided and
| mistaken clemency. Let me say to
| you brigadiers and your allies, that the
| North will never permit you TO desc
crate the high places now flied by
patriots. They tolerate you III
Congress, because you rendei
the best of service by exposing your
disloyal schemes, but thus far shalt
thou go, aud no farther. With New
York, Indiana, aud every heretofore
doubtful Northern State in the serried
ranks of the Republican party in
1880, your doom is fixed, your avoca-
ton as President maker will come to
an end, aud you will become political
utilities, unless you attempt TO -Aexi-
csnize the government, when you
will surely stretch hemp. 'fhe
wealth and Intelligence of This
country is in the North and West.
The cause of good government is
When treason reared its head,
thew sent their sons anu
| brothers out to maintain the unity
of the Republic. The Anderson viiles
and Libby prisons, although devised
to murder Union prisoners, did not
| overawe the Northern people. Nor
do the threats brigadiers oyeraw
them to sday. They are watching the
| South. Tney keep a record OF every
publican who is klfiedo or mutiiated
| because of his politics in the rebel
States. The Democratic game to steal
the Presidency might have been sue
| cessfully carried out in the gushing
riDoes of 1873 and 1874, but in 1880 lie
will not win, and may result in a
wholesale hanging Of traitors, work
which should have been performed in
1865. Go ahead, Messrs. Brigadiers,
you are harmless to destroy this great
government, either by starving it to
death, or by. crushing it on the battle