Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-09-27
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the iharks of tue pea.
"SCeh we're his truo cJnvic!ions Bat when
he cams 10 deal with the same subjec. IN his
r1ii,ica! capacity be surrendered everything to
/ il patty. lie voted fer military dcspotism
aoG regular SISTER, Ct kidnapping ADD murder
10 al .l.o Hiatcs c! tho South. 10 The same act
Wefo oihcr rr07i:i ous whloh be certainly under.
stood 10 be 10 direct cor fic. with every article
AID every section OF the constitution. In oil
this Ec cid not trarsercGs. ike Others 10 ienor-
| EnGc or IN ps!sicD no sInrcd against light and
kDowIcd 20 nnd Oh a cold calculation of partisan
policy it is 40 Infinite pity that such man
should net only DO iaso to his c,uulry but false
10 himself. What makes all this very much
worse is his douuDciation OF Gen. Hancock for
saying that tho military was oonslitutionslly
| subordinate to tho civil power, and that liberty
was still tic Inheritance Of the American people;
for thts, wero proportions which he himself
| had asserted and knew 10 be true. It might
! he expected that tie cjurss oil a man 50 10.
| fiaenetd WCud frequently d. 4 lot from the
straight path, AID Que great alteration VIC can
| DOT bnt rrmanber.
Mr. Tiden Sss excited 10 1876. A false
return was The only resource against hiG. l do
would commit All election fraud any more than
| Az hGuIu SlCEl u NulSO VI oUSCps bIl WHC1
the managers CT his party demanded his aid 10
great saiCdo he could not refuse. Under
that coercion no went down to Louisiana and
there found i! absolutely certain that the Tilden
clcctora had been duly appointed OF legal
and full poll, so peaceably conducted that there
was not even q squalble about it 10 the whole
State. And tho appointment 80 made vas
attestcd ty a4d recorded upon the certificates
and the ra!hs of election cfficars adverse to the
nppoinlees IN all their feelings and wishes.
There IVES 20 earthly excuse for denying this
10 contradiction OF it could be honest. TO count
| tho State Tor Hayes was thing that could be
done only BY impudent and uDmlligsted fraud.
| For time hoped that Gen. Gar6eld's share
10 that great crime had consisted 10 passive
acqlieeoeace. and am surprised by the proofs
recently brought forward of bis active assistance
10 is pcrpetre'ioD His judgment as member
of tho electoral commission was thing to be
expected, for he must long before that have
convinced himself that fraud was as good q
way as any other of eleoting President. In q
poilic, eamo he did not Thick that anybody
had morel sense cough 10 abstain from throw
Ing die which no himself had loaded 10 win
| tho stake.
"Th; liability TO be rushed into evil courses
by this party associates has brought upon him
much odium which he does not deserve in the
transactions OF the Credit Mobilier. The stock
distributed by Cakes Ames was intended to
| il aleEce the legislation Ct Congress corruptly
| He and the company who put i: into his hands
| meant business and that business was bribery.
Undoubtedly those Members who took it know
| ing the nature Of the thing were great crimi-
malls and wholly unworthy to retain their seats.
But General Garfield, though he certainly
agreed TO take the stock and did actually take
dividends upon it, had no suspicion of its con
| nection with tho Union Pacific railroad or OF
the cor !lict which its possession might create
between his private interests and his public
dutg. Ho WAS as guilt!ees az the child unborn OF
sDy dishonest meaning about the whole business.
l believe this not merely because he told me co.,
~. because IL Is probable in itself and corrobor.
! nted by many circumstances. fho bad stuck
| to it hn would have been credited by all men as
implicitly Sc lie WAS by mo. Fearing that his
! political friends might influence him to depart
from it, wrota beseeching him TO stand fast up.
on the defense he hsd made TO me. That he did
not take this advice is the bitterest regret Of his
| life. But the party would not let him take 1t.
Tho accusation struck at the highest heads in tn o
House md tho fens!n They had out one ans.
war, and that WIS u positive denial Of tho fact
| TINT any stock had over been takan by themi
and on that limo they expected Mr.. Ames to
| swear Them through. General Garfield, for the
benefit OF others and to his own great injury,
unitad in msking this tsse defense. Their wit
| i:CSS lalteu tH"n DEu lnCy Wofo hi COnVlCLeu
| after tho report OF the committee wrote to MIR.
Blaine the Letter which has been extensively
published, ana which was an effort to put Gen.
Garfield back upon tho true ground. which he
never Gueh to have ab indonod. fui il WAS too
! Sts.
II regret sincsroly that General Garfield iS q
candidate or that ho thoulG be placed in any
position which calls for criticism on his conduct
! III u public man. But have said nothing that
will bn new to him, for in many forms. at many
times. III sundry ways, publicly and privately, 1
haven giyo this same construction Of his acts
and cyh"rtGd him to como out from the evil and
corrupt icllo HBhp when drags him down while
| il prtthnds to elevate him. l hope that on all
| isaucs the friends of liberty and justice and law
end honcst go7ernment will make Themselves
| heard by tho naLIon So clearly that at the mex!
election tho popular condemnation Of the anti.
constitutional faction will be overwhelming. In
lho meantime let us watch IS we'll as pray that
! tho country be not swindled again.
Faithfully snd hopefully yours.
| j. =. BLACK.
| "Thn Hon. Augustus Schel, Chairman and
members Of tho com mlttee."