Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-11-08
X1CH. CHANDLER.


has passed from the walks of men -
Another great Radical light has gone
out. Zach Chandler is dead. He was
found dead in his bed la Chicago on
the night Of the 3lst. ult,, having on the
same night, delivered one of the most
intensely malignant, superlatvcly ven
cmous, cruelty severe and bascly false
speeches, against the people of the
South that was ever listened TO by NOR
tai man. Ordinarily, we accept, and
usually observe, the old Roman aphor-
ism, lie mortuiS nil aisi bonum, but in
this instance it would be an outrage
upon justice and candor not to substi-
tutc "vcritatcm for "bonum."
Senator Chandler was man of
marked ability, was honest, incorrupt-
iblc and true to his party and friends.
lie is said TO have possessed many So
cial attractions, and to have had many
personal as well as political admirers.
But hatred of the South was with him
a mania. II was the all-absorbinA o.
empowering, ruling passion of his
being. He brcathcd an atmosphere of
sectional bitterness. His richest and
most cherished thoughts were Walls of
wrath and imprecations against the
Southern people. lie turned heaven
and earth for language, arguments and
illustrations to convey to the world
the burning contempt and ccaselcss
loathing that he felt for the South. He
died almost in the very act of uttcring
base and blistcring words of defama-
ton and incxcusablc misrepresentation
of down-trodden, oppressed and al
most bankrupt people, of his own race,
blood and country.
We reproduce few specimens of
the dying words of this great apostle
of the God-and-morality party of the
North:
Mistakes we undoubtedly made
errors we committed--but, in my judg-
mcnt, the gravest error we committed
was in not hanging enough of these
rebels to make treason forever odious."
"Twenty years ago they (the rebcls)
said in Congress, do this, or fail to do
that, and we will shoot your govern
ment to death Now. find these pa
rolled rebels, who have never been re-
leased from their parole of honor. say
ing, do this, obey our will, or we will
starvc your government to death"
"Thcse rebels are Just as rebellious
now as they were twenty years ago
there is not particle of difference"
lie said again, that "wc, (thc South)
had captured both houses of Congress
that we arc solid for regulating the
National debt and paving our own
claims of $1,000 100000, out of the pub
lie Treasury-that we had rcpudiatcd
our individual and state dcbts-that
we had DISTINGUISHED the negroes &C."
But it is impossible to get correct
idea of the glaringly false declarations
bhN WI Splllt VI tiliS ItHliT htluIc
speech, without reading the whole of
it. 1t shows what miserable. living
stuff the Northern public are fed upon
by Radical speakers, and what one oc-
casionally drobs dead on.
a brain that was capable OF concciv-
ing such sentiments as these must have
been Il store-housc of poison, and una
able to perform its physical duties af-
ter such porversion of its functions.
Naturally it succumbed at once
All! but the idea of II mans soul
being filed with such unrighlcous and
unholy thoughts as these, just as il pass
cs through the chill waters of death.
and is brought face to face with that
God who has said; "lovc tn ncighbor
as thyself," and Chou shalt not bear
false Witness"
1t was astartliug thing, and a thrill
ING coincidence, to see Il man hurled
into eternity, just rs he had been gull
ty Of a gross and palpable violation of
moral and revealed law, in way cal
culatcd to mislcad multitudcs of peo-
pie, and injure the Innocent.
May this not be warning to others
that will not go unhecdcd? ii.