New-York tribune., 1880-01-11
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
THE SITUATION IN MAINE.


LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR OF 4 FOOLS ERRAND }"
A SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN EXPLAINS HOW MEN
OF HIS CLASS REGARD The MAINE FRAUD-rHE
NORTHERN METHOD OF DEFEATING THE WILL
OF THE PEOPLE VASTLY MORE CLEVER AND LESS
BRUTAL THAN THE SOUTHERN.
TO TIE Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: The events which have lately taken
place In Maine of very peculiar interest 10 that
rapidly disappearing class OF our feow-citizeHs VINO
are known as Southern Republicans. The Democratic
role OF stealing state by fraud violence has so often
been carried effect in the reconstructed section that
they look upon such result with peculiar compaceucy
Like dying they count nothing at ALL when one gets
used to it.
In this case however. they cannot help regarding 1t
with especial feeling Of resignation When they were
the they not little surprised at the cool
with which such transactions were regarded by
their brethren of the North who did not exactly say
that they were glad Of IT, petted and ieed the men
who accomplished the theft, and regarded only with
sort OF conemptuous pity the representations OF wrong
and outrage which were made by the sufferers.
Compared with the outrage upon free government and
personal liberty which perpctrated IN South caro-
Ina IN louisiana in Mississippl-in every Southern
State where the power Of the lawful mai Dr;ty neu-
tralzed by fraud and blood and terror-what Is this
little embrngo in Mauel People clamcr about ITS beng
unlawful violent nd revolutionary. why, not drop OF
blood has shed, Not mans back has been striped
with the LASH MOI Rin Club has paraded nor hukluN
Kan made he night hdcous, from the seaside 10 the
springs Of tine AndrOscoggn. All u peace. Law ana
order prevail. The Courts are in session. Justice "a
administered without let hiudrance. There Is no
revolution there-ihere be. There Is not even
bloody shirt 10 wave. But the VIII OF the people has
been thwarted the power Of the majority suppressed
and dcfcd; the sovereignty II the peop'e sub
vertcd %cl, suppose II has-what thon' Hamp-
/ ton and Nicho's and Chalmers ANA Butler
and a host of otler-, cal honorable men -
rode INTO place and power over bleeding and butohered
and budozed maiortcs, and the North was rs silent as
the grave. Nav, more; IT welcomed these men as IN
come SORT dcsciviue eculi rly dr>ervinr-patfots !!
Npt only Legal gntou, hut individual dcvotodness
and indorscment v,ro recorded 70 one OF tacm IN a
marx "a degree.
The aw-abIlng citizens of thn North disturbed
bv the news from Maine" Why should they bc The
! Governor of Maine Is only dong, In q much more
gcutccl. Christian AID civilized manner, what
| Nichols aud Hampton were invited TO do aud
app.uded for dong. What others dd with huuging
and barbaTous show OF force he has accomplished
by % trick a. keen rzoi's edge. Hampton had tAc
advlutare OF bc longing 20 lofty Southern family, and
having good Confederate record but bis follower eX-
hnt,d even courage when be looked into the faces
Of the sturdy and cu sntoncl Maine R-pub cans and
! stole away the franchises they had conferred upon
thcir fellows. with such unmatched adrO ness that no
! remedy ROMANS. aud bill OF Indictment Will lie
I
superior 90 the booted swashbucler OF South Caro-
| lima. as Hampton is ahead OF Niger" who only
steals n specified pullat and gets caught AZ that In
view OF thls " Hampton has been hOnured, what suf
or 70 and appropr afc honor could be conferred upOn
the accomY executive larccnst OF Miiucl Rrvo-
uOn by fraud or force be the east pathway
To- honor aud pref Imont IN The American Nation Rebel
ION uoblef leaders and degraded those no fought
acansti. Witness the OF Confederate gene
-as iu Congress ana the ldfscure Of lcras witness
The uuhludercd o orchle statestealing bloody
aud muidcrous revolution 80 the South since tie war,
ard then give me reason, II You can, Why party
which la, acquired control OF solid south by hiCC-
way robbery, as IL were, aud been ap-
| plauded ana petcd For II, should not
adop the policy n the North. The Republicans
~ Maine ani the people OF the United States are only
! beginning 10 reap now the harvest OF whirwlnd
| which comes from the wind which they sOwcd
when th- Nation md behind qlhhlcs and subicrfrg's
while bloody treason nourished us In the South
The Republicans Of the South regret the trouble IN
iine and dcporc the results likely 10 cnsuc thcr from
but thcv are entirely inconO!abe since they believe
that drop from the chalicc so cooly commended TO
their own lip. may prove proper corrective 10 the
| minds and hearts Of their Northern brethren.
| SOUTHFES EEPUBIICAv.
| otherwise "ONE OF The Fools