Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-06
OUR CHICAGO LETTER.


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CHICAGO, November 3, 1S79.-Grim
death made a sudden death call early
Saturday morning upon a very nOta-
BILE individual snugly domiciled at the
Grand Pacific Hotel in this city. This
person was no other than Senator
Zach" Chandler, of Michigan. Yes,
Zach Chandler, the great revolving
wheel and lever power Of the radical
Republican party a mar known from
n extreme to the other Of this broad
land as one of the most bitter of par
tisans and dire enemies of Democracy,
as well as hater of the South. A man
full of strong prejudiccs sordid in
politics selfish in his actions; con-
sidering only his side right, and ever
ready, without, apparently, knowing
it, to be made the pack horse of his
party and the instrument to carry
out its infamous designs. Il was
upon this man that inexorablQ
death made requisitioD, and he
has suddenly disappeared from the
stage of life after playing a part dur
ing the last fourteen years. that will
cause few flowers to be strcwD upon
his grave or tears to be shed by trua
lovers of liberty. This call came
suddenly upon him after he had given
birth to a blatant partisan speech in
Mccormack hall, before a radical Re-
publican audience, and in which he
committed grevious wrong by charg-
ing that the Democrats were the enc
mics of the country, and that the
South was ready to enact agAia the
role of 1861. He made assertions to
tickle Republican ribs hat he must
have known and believed to be false.
But the case being desperate he re-
sorted to desperate measures, and ia
his blind zeal of party forgot what was
due to truth and the intelligence Of
his auditors; for it cannot be denied
that most Republieaa audiences are,
in the main, intelligent. This last
speech was fully up to the programme
marked out for Republican orators
aud speakers such as he; but the hol-
lOwness of the subject, insnch uncouth
hands. was made childish "a the ex-
IRENE By lack Of logic, disregard Of
rhetoric, and want Of facts to support
the feeble fabric Of argument put
forth to demonstrate the virtues Of the
Republican party. This speech will
live, like bis many unpatriotic acts,
when his virtues shall have been for
gotten. 1t will be the capstone Of the
great partisan ediice Of prejudice and
hate that he has helped to erect, 0
structure that will forever be pointed
at as a Swing monument Of
Republican misrule and tyranny.
1t will be claimed by his friends
that the departed Gealot was %conseien-
tious and honest ia al of his actions.
Well, this can be claimed for tie
hordes of Republican thieves who
made him their tool. But it will be
hard to make an unparalleled mind
consider as honest aad yirtuous the
part played by him in the stupendous
election frauds, whereby Louisiana wa,
robbed Of her rights and by such re.
suit X. d. Hayes, the Republican
candidate, was made President of the
United States. The part acted in thi,
infamous play alone was enough Il
hand the mans name down 10 poster.
ity as an enemy to constitutional lib.
erty and "a staunch friend Of the
basest fraud and foul corruption
Deaths sudden summons seems
prophetic. 1t would appear
as a dreadful warning to all following
in the dead senator's path to bowarl
and flee from their wicked course
and cease to heap evil on others tina.
good may resultto themselves. Thii
was the last role enacted by Sliebi
gan's departed light. His %crownin,
effort for his party was base malignin,
of those who honestly differed from
him in politics; and as he passo,
from the rostrum to the grave Il is +,
be hoped that reason was virtuou
enough to exclaim Lord, torgiy.
me, for l knew not what / did, l
is to be hoped he will be forgiven
To err is human to forgive divine.
As he is dead let him rest, for Will
living he had little Of il. Wit
enemies many and friends few, his Jill