The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-17
OHIO-sHERMAN.

Foster, backed as he was by the influence Of
the administration and by the active aid OF
Sherman, tho United States Treasury and the
prevail against the unaided Democratic
masses supporting Ewing No one could con-
slider the matter moment without recognize
ing the fact that the struggle In Ohio was less
the affair OF Mr.. Foster than or John Sher-
man. 1t furnished the arena for display Of
the latter's strength, and we needed no
prophet to tstf US ttIat he woufd gather him
self TO deliver splendid and significant blow
for $780, Nobody can deny that Sherman has
made the most or It, He has achieved q vic
tory Of proportions which are rarely seen In
Ohio campaigns. He has struck so hard and
with such ringing sound that there noed be
no mistake rs to the meaning OF the stroke
II ID Sherman announcing his ambitions for
next year, and warning the nation OF his
power and his purpose. The sentimentalists
and hero-worshipers In tho Republican party
have been rejoicing among themselves over
the prospect of nominating the man on horse
back, from over the sea, but they should re-
member that John Sherman Is q cold oalcu-
lating intellect who allows nothing to enthu-
siasm and who has held for two years past
the vast influence and patronage OF the Fed
eral government and who knows, better than
any man living, how to WELD 1t for his own
profit and advantage.
He has listened to the ppans and panegyrics
to the shoutings and adulations over the
oonquerorB return; and now he has dealt
this terrible conoolastic blow to shatter the
castles OF the dreamers and to tell them that
his cause Is backed by - storm MATERIAL SIN
Of power, and that against It's bleak strength
the sound and fury of theirs will valnly beat.
The Ohio fight is Sherman's and he has won
1t by one Of the most impressive exhibitions
Ia the history Of similar struggles. 1t means
Foster far less than 1t means forty-six Sher-
man delegates to the Republican nominating
convention next summer, and 1t reminds US
that the great Secretary has been improving
hts opportunity to pack the custom-houses
and Federal offices from Maine to California
and from the lakes to tho Gulf OF Mexico
with his following. II Is al advertisement to
the party that he Is tho custodian or the
pnrty's strength and means, and that he OF
all men understands how to exert the full en-
ergy Of that mighty engine. While the sen
tlmentallsts are gloryinR In their enthusl-
assn, and making sthe welkin ring with their
acclamatioDs for Grant, the henchmen OF the
crafty Sherman will send to the convention q
solid Sherman delegation over three hundred
strong from the custom houses and Federal
places Of the South, and with these, and
Ohio's now assured forty-six, there is d Sher
man nucleus which 1t would seem impossible
to overcome
Let not men blind themselves to the situa-
ton. 1t is to John Sherman that all the pres
ent indications Of the horoscope point as the
coming man who will lead the Republican
leglons In their bitter struggle to retain con-
troll Of the destinies Of the country. 1t is
with this crafty and heartless and unscrupu-
lous schemer and not with the blunt. rough
handed soldier, Grant, that we shall In all
probability have to deal next year.
And IL such be the case. as to every reason
ing man 1t must to-day appear. what are we
to expect with John Sherman In the presiden-
tial chair? We have seen that the campaign
In Ohio has been based upon the very worst
and most malignant phase Of the outrage
plan The speeches Of Sherman and OF his
friends have reeked with every lying and
venomous Islander or the South. He has de-
scribed us as community Of barbarians
with whom assassination Is habitual and to
whom violence is an every day recreation
Our soil Is drenched with blood and our
swamps glisten with the skeletons OF our vic
Tins He has dwelt upon this theme, paraded
these pictures in grisly panorama before the
affrlghted eyes OF his audiences. until honest
bau haay, ada To hot
fiends incarnate whom 1t would be an act Of
humanity and patriotism to extermlnate.
And then what does John Sherman propose
Speaking Of our alleged system Of violence
and murder and lawessness, Us directed
against Republicans. he says:
What, then is the remedy If this policy Is
continued There is none other except an ap
peal to the loyal people Of tho Northern States,
to all who were on the Union side in the WGr. In
action or In sympathy. and to the independent
manhood Of the Democratic party. to stand by
our political Organization until the rights Of all
mon are secured, enforced and respected In
every State and Territory In the Union: and
this appeal should be made now ana next year.
and ms sure rs God rules In the heavens 1t will
not be made In vain.
There is no doubt as to the dark signifl-
canoe Of this suggestion. 1t foreshadows an
era Of persecution and prejudice, beside which
the reconstruction period OF ten years ago will
seem reign Of peace and good villa oarni-
val OF hate and injury on one side and Of suf-
ferlng and desolation on the other, which will
shame the age In which we live, and annihilate
our civilization.
This Is what the Ohio affair In the light Of
all present facts and indications unquestion-
ably means. Let men consider solemnly and
prayerfully whether they can afford to neglect
one single measure Of precaution or defense
whether they can afford to Indulge even the
deepest sentiment Of enmity one against the
another Ia presence OF this common peril!
INVESTIGATING KELLOGG.