The daily gazette., 1879-08-09
NOT BAD FOR GENERAL EWING.

The opponents OF General Ewing In
Ohio are constrained ID Ad1ndt that be
was a gallant ana xBl6 solder M the
war for the Union also that NJ u man
of honor and probity and nnchihasre
than average ability. Thst AA .geed
deal; but they have been in the habit
lately of adding that he used TO be 6 ~
publican and "Why did hei yufn sde1hb-
crat ?" the suggestion bsing fhAt ~ -
came a democrat TO get once. ,lss .l,qs
Thereupon Ewings fiendp puh!iab .
letter Of his, which atpeSred 10 long ako
Is November, 1857 and Whiclf ee16 Tte-
cisely why he left the Republican .RaF1g.
1t was because he was ,Opppaed. r. TIE
extreme reconstruction laws; and what
he then forrsaw as to the enec3 " th66e
laws seems to us to show that GenbEal
Ewing had the provision Of Q statesman.
He had fought the rebels and hsd helped
beat down the rebellion and restore sllB
Union but when he saw his party ~
tablishing State governments in the
South ofthe carpet-ba and negro Kind,
of which we have all come to know
since, he was not ,willingj and In this
letter he gives very, good reason9 for his
opposition. He declared himself ready
to vote for General Grant, but he want
ed to know first how he stood on tho re-
construction laws; and in What follows
he, as it happened: foretold very HccAr
rately what resulted from these laws,
which republicans now see to have been
mistake. HewrOte ~ yt,cotu .aT
I want first to know whether Grant ap,
proves the reconstruction m6asuR04; Tor
If he does i cannot support hiln!h ItSa
regard them as mischieyOus.--be00t Ofres
venge, misdireeted philanthrophy and
lust of power. would as soon expect Q
house to stand on the crater Of iAvinS
volcano a. q State, where whites and
blacks being nearly equal in nambseS
the whites are prescribed and the blacks
made rulers. Such government cannot
long have the heartfelt sympathy 0f any
large body of white men ,anywhere.
Blood is thicker than water, and GOsth,
ern whites will ,sympathize with South
ern whites in their struggle TO shake on
the incubus of negro rule. To punish
the Southern whites for their treason the
Northern people might poesibly Tor =
time be willing to sffiict them wsth such
governments but self-interest forbids II.
It were like the tabled war OF the belly
and the members. The North always
groans under the punishment now being
inflicted on the South, and must besides
pay for the whip. The negro govern
ments, when formed. must be propped
by northern bayonets, aud the North
must pay for the bayonets; and however
costly, they can never safely be with
drawn. fl...a. ~ ID, rs,ll
General Grant did approve Of these
laws; the carpet-bag and negro govern
ments were established by him, and,
as Ewing foresaw, he had to uphold them
with bayonets for eight long years; and
when President Hayes removed the bay
onets they at once fell to pieces-but not
until after career of scandalous robbery
and maladministration which lost th6
republican party both houses of Congress
and gave it its President in 1875 only by
juggles and the exhibition Of military
force which the country still remembers
with disgust. .tA i. r.r8r..f,sl
The republicans were not fortunate In
drawing out this letter of Ewing. 1t win
raise him in the esteem of all Thought
full men, for it shows that he Ifofesaw
evils to the country and to the reppbli-
can party to which many men moro
prominent than he were blind. The let
ter will not hurt him in Ohio; andiif ho
should be elected this fall it will be heard
of next year. .. -.s rt -s,s-,..,.r.
Who knows-we may have q demo-
cratic President yet.-N. Y. Herald. -