The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-10-17

GARFIELD'S TYRANNICAL SPIRIT
Hfs Biood-Thtrsty Desires Toward the
Soutb-An Advocate OF Absolute Con-
Hscntfou.

GARFIELD'S TYRANNICAL SPIRIT.
gi. Biood-Thtrsty Desires Toward the
south-An Advocate OF Absolute Con-
Hscntiou.
To tha Editor Of the sunday Herald:
slR On the ID day OF March, 1869, Gen.
GARFIELD Reconstruction Act passed by Congress-
ON the 18th day OF the month Gen GARFIELD told
900 voters assembled In Allyn Han In the city of
Hartford, Conn, how Iencntly the Republicans In
Congress were dealing with the rebels In the South
lie says;
The law of 100 reads; ANY citizen who shall take
up against the United States shall conviction
thereof, suffer death by hangng.'' SO we might
have lawfully hanged every rebel In the South. Wa
might have created 8, 600 000 gibbcts and hanged
rebel on each. Yet would not this be IawfulY Ent
Congress Is maguanimous. We could have taken
every rebel doar-confscated everything they had In
the world to pay our national debt. hut Congress
says: I'VE give your lives, You may stay on your
not again rule us Such magnanimity dSfy you to
| find In history tAppiausc.l
Now. considering that the Constitution says. "No
person shall be convicted Of treason unless the tcst
mory Of two witnesses to tho overt act confess
sion In ocn court, II was very thoughtful and kind
In Gen. Garfield not TO have the ., ooo 900 giblcts
crccc for, to say nothing about the time required TO
create great number tho time spopt In taking the
testimony of 10, 0o0 600 witnesses In these rebels
hai fair and legal trial. and the time needed to GO
through the process Of hanging these 600 GOO rebels
'"'rne' cow" no' n''e n'e '""g en""gn W "'.o
had the pleasure OF seeing tho last of them banged
| Robcspierre and Marat counted up how many heads
they could cut oil each day and declared there could
he no security for the Republic TIL eco 600 heads had
fallen, hut they had only to givs list Of names each
day Of the suspcct, and they were hurried to the
gulictne without Judge or jury. and this would have
been the mode of putting tho rc,cls to death by Gen
| Garfield
hut when ala they s,y to them. "You may stay on
YOUR farms ma Gen t;arueld asscrtsg Not until
after they ,, tried their ,,cst 10 ,,,v, them or Nm,
until after President Jincon had vetoed their Copts-
cation Act with It's bi,l OF ataucr declaring 1t con-
trary to the Constitution Of our country.
Aud how dill Gen Garfield party like this barrie,
to their fond expectations OF owning tho sunny fields
Of the South why, they stamped on the floor; the,
put their fingers In their ears and would not hear tho
| veto messare road In Tho Conyreas WAS M, Air
h'"co'' heeping MS o''n W r'c,oc. anu ue'ehu "t
Constitution OF his conntryy And did not these ,nel
| hers Of Congress who passed that Coufscativn bill
conm,, nnr,,rYY r,,, ,,v,,,o, ,,, ,,o s,,,,a ,,,,
,s ,,,o p,aa,,.., ''' WV" WV ''''' ''''
| "s "'e TreSiuch'.
James Madison helped to frame that Constitution,
ana he explained the meaning of every article theieo
| III thc fea.roHst. lie says'
As ,,ehs"n may oc comn,tteh against the unitc'
hui ne new fam" ,., an, S,,,ec,a, ,,n,son max ,,
the great engines by which violent factions have usually
wrcaked their malignliy on each other the Conven-
~, .n n'se, WI" s.o,' J"'s"en., npposeu "nrr'.r y
dcnn,,on "r ,I" ",,mc ,,"c ,,c Sr,or ncc,ssa,v S
conviction or It, and rcslra,ninE Congress- evet
In furnishing It, from extending the consequences u
gun oo.'n. '',e re's"n y, ,.S a".nor.
N"w' ""'' "'e We w '"'"h WI 'o"' ""'"e'u w"'h !"
p'"ch'.'.s '"'' MS party co"'" nave 'a~eh eve,
'eoc' "'i' '''' c"""s'''e" e'"'y."i"s t'ey "u u
"'e "oi" U" pay ""' n"''"""' "c".! i'"es "ot u''
prove that nc was w,ig !" commit p"flnry 10 wiea
"'s "''sh"y "@''hs' '''e oo"'he'" IcoP'cF iha' III
'o'sl"''o" 's II" o''''e' ""'"' WI" "s pi " "9aihs
any outrage 'hey ues'ie 10 'nhct on the'r enemies
such man NJ th's TO ne itiustc WIN the destin'e
a"u "eh'fe %, '"is "a''ons
But now steh iurther TO the savage vengeance Q
eeh."arhe'u anu MS party The New YORK Times
ed'ted ny the iafe Henry Raymond, Republican, ha
| the following edi'ofia' dateu January 70, 1861:
''lt will he remembered that the original bill con
cefnlng Sonnscation Whicn PASSED July, ls62. mad
MI, nor,n,a, t,r al, ~ ,,m ILL.,. i,rs,Sat ,,a a.
bill because OF its uucops,itutonaty The bilI WI
modified as 10 conlne the conhscaion to the life
interest Oh .ne repc's, aW III tat shape became aw
IN ia nr,v,n, sh,nn .n as l., ",aSa " th o
permanent. ~
n "we have not searched particularly on the sui
u feet saws Mr. Raymoud but we can recall no 1,
u stance of such sweepiug wholesale confscations
e this bill concentrates The old Roman empire h,
: the name OF being about as hard conaue. or as II
world has SEEM and vet Its usage was not to consca
the property of its enemy entirely but to reserve Il
tho oi,,,, nj, ,r,o,or oo mir, f,r tho s,,,,,to,c,
10 ~ .", 'o' .,o .'
" himself and family Cromweil's confscatious In ir
thew ware attended win ao,mens sur,c,ent for fan
. AZ, nnor, puss,,,o ,r.,,,,on, a, p,,,d .,,,r 4,
iy support. RUSSIA treatment OF foiahu a'ter u
nsurrection of 1870 has been considered almost Inc
~ cilcss. About ten thousand estates conscatc,
but these were only small proportion Of the Old 50
" " vi i''" ~ .'o ""''o vi '"s'"'' "'''e '''eio :"
- over hundred thousand reehods Nearly all Of til
N this cop,,sca,op measure was carried ont accora,
| -. a.. -, -, n.,, aasa..,a 80,
40 practicable would throw into the shade eyerythI,
OF the kind known to history The object of the Poll
" and IrisI, conascatons was 10 make rood subject
~ Their success may ,e read in the repcate0 insure
fiona dawn IN tho prosept dav T,,e o,ct or our ~,
~, Hscations must bc to make willing citizens, for o
Hep,,cnu syste admits of no such condition ms IN
y n, snn,.,,. =,
ne Gen. Garfield AMI his fellow radicals I'm Congrt
p are thus convicted of being greater yrants than
IL heroes or Caesars who ruled the Roman empire mo
nerciess than the Car Of Russia andof oliver Crn
well, whose curse rests on Ireland to-day The Co
s'i'ntion wasnot going t"stau ther way III ."ls co
:, isca,on scheme The Southern lands were what the
vi radicals were fighting for As early rs June 1876
,,c co,rcsnondent o1 thc yri,yuo b,ld ont in,iuc
u. 49, w ~. IT, ,,, ys,,,. a.. ,",, ,,. ,r,,
w .s and onouor the sou,,, and t,ke ,ossessop of IN,
ve | ,.n,s IIa s.,,s
9, M, ,ho ,,ycs o,,v ,s ,,e ro,.,a must ,,swor I
their wIckedpes but their properly also will be
=" the lawful spoil of conquest Their goods aud chs
IA tels TO le contscated to the State. Plantaio
shall pass from tho old prOpretOrs to new pOssesst
~ without tho written transfer and tho attestng notar
W., Tho title deeds Of fruitful roOis shall DO written by
nd swouI @ H. % w. 1o , ,o' % ;,, 'e @ o, ,m ,s wv S no
to and the single owner. viii, the baggage wagon
~ your camp furniture Is tho canvass roof OF the p
heer tiain ana ihe VIE anu cniuren VINO are
a 9,ipy; AMI omi"v in "nod Iic" ,,,e inhertance viii
nd desccds to Your yaor The gifts which are to be
rewards of exposure 10 camPand casualty are not O
tine virgin acres oht the c"'uVMcd iarhi.
ke A like promise was made by Cromwell to his s.
dies, II they would 60 with him and conquer Ireai
~, 'hau"e"s o'c'c"S W" '"" an" '''"oi vi "e"' '"
10 | field and tho Republican party, said In Congress
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