National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-03
"YoU LIE, YoU VILLAIN"

most tender and generous impulses, was
not without the infrmities of an irasci-
bilty of temper. He would get vexed and
occasionally his vexation would find solace
in mild type of profanity, which was not
always marked by its grace of expression
and happy blending of epithets; but it
must have vent, aud usually found it in
that direction At one time, however, Mr..
| GREELEY became too much angered at
RAYMOND of the Times, to be solaced with
the geutleness of his accustomed profanity,
and he exploded in this emphatic out
burst, You lie, you villainw We are led
to refer to this incident TO eXempliiy the
present policy of the Democratic South
toward the Republican party and its
present attitude on questions of National
concernment. The South has made its own
history, and that stands of record. 1t re-
belled and attempted to destroy the Gov
ernment by protracted war, which traced
its history in blood for years; and yet,
when the North reminds the South that
they are responsible for that war and all its
fearful consequences to themselves and the
common country, their reply is substantially
that of Mr.. GREELEY to RAYMOND, You
I" lie, you villain" When we inform them
that they surrendered ut Appomattox, aud
in that surrender that they logically yielded
all the issues that led to the war-incuding
slavery, State sovereignty and home rule
their reply is substantially, You lie, you
| "villain!" When their attention is called
to the fact that slavery has become extinct
and the former slave has become u free man
and citzen-clothed with all the attrib-
utes, privileges and rights of citizenship
equal to those enjoyed by themselves,
they again rebel and declare angrily " You
"lie, you villain" They contend that
State supremacy is undisturbed; they have
surrendered none of the issues which led
them into war, and, for that matter, " this
lis n white mans Government, and they
will never submit to be ruled by niggers."
When we point to the amended Constitu-
ton and to the laws of reconstruction
under which the former slave has been
made citizen, entitled under the laws TO
equal rights of opinion and of suffrage
with other citizens-and that to deprive
him of that right is an infraction of
the Constitution and laws of the
country, and an invasion of right as sacred
to the American citizen of African descent
as to the white Southron-Mr. GREELEY Is
reply to RAYMOND is flaunted in the face OF
the North
When we protest against the methods
and practices of the South for carrying
elections, in which the shotgun, the rifle,
the revolver, tissue ballots and false counts,
as subversive of law and Tight-and when
all these agencies have passed into history
that cannot be effaced or discredited-the
reply is "You lie, you villain!"
When the freedman of the South-frOm
whose muscle and snew the wealth and
prosperity of that section have been drawn
are robbed not only of their citizenship, but
of the honest fruits of their toll, and are
oppressed more severely than when held in
the chains of slavery, and show signs Of
unrest and dissatisfaction, even to prac.
tical emigration for relief; and when the
North protests against these wrongs, re.
minding the South that they are insuffer-
: able and cannot be tamely submitted TO-
|
} North is to all intents and purposes
denounced as an intermeddler and liar
2 When Mr.. BLACKBURN declares that the
t Confederates will not stop until they have
wiped all the war measures from the re-
5 cord, including, of course, the amendments
10 the Constitution and the laws of recon-
structon, no voice in the South protests
, | 10 70 Ill rffF1nt Rnt tyla ftn I,
protests with warning that it will never
submit to reversion of the issues of the
war as settled in the surrender of rebellion
it is taun ted with injustice and denounced
= bitterly for adhering to the opinion that all
c these things were settled when the South
affected TO surrender its armed hostility to
= the Government and ostensibly yielded all
= its hates, its heresies and its hostilites tC
!. to the Federal power.
f When the Republicans, in the light of re-
2 corded history assert that the late extr;
? session of Congress was in tue interest of the
rebels and shaped and nodded its measures
TO give a decided advantage to that class OF
Democrats, they turn upon us angrily ant
substantially apply the language of Mr.
bhEElEh W bho lNepubliNbhS lOu lie
"you villain"
In view of all these strongly corToborate(
: facts, the Republican party-yea, the loya
: North-have exhibited and now evince
spirit of forbearance seldom found in thu
midst of human infrnity. But the day o
patience is we'll worn. The spirit of tn,
, people is being aroused and is rapidly crys
tallizing into formidable determination
that these wrongs and insults shall be re-
dressed at the ballot-box. In this behal
the North is being rapidly solidifed, anC
will confront these difficulties and danger
with peaceful agencies until the popula
> voice shall consign the embers of secession
aud rebellion TO utter oblivion. Then tn
= Nation will be peaceful and happy.
: THE New York Graphic gives currency Il
the rumor that TILDEN has sent his check
to the ROBINSON Committee for half mil
! lion Of dollars TO be used in the pending
% campaipn in the State of New York II