Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-04-07
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an Lloyd Garrisou, Charles Sumner
Ia add, u Stevens, Diver F. Morton
Abraham Lincolr, his war Seeretar
Stanton, ard . hos Of others who's
lives were spent ia defence of libsIt
and down troddsa race. Bat alas
now how prostitutsd The lives an
Oh aracters Of these noble men have al
lost their charms for him who would
now II no could bring public opinion
bound hand and foot, prostituted ant
bereft Of manhood and Lie would lay
1t at the feet, in atjSc. fulsome hattery
and praise of such men as Senators
Hampton, Lamar, Hamburg, Butcher
But or IN Randall Gibson, the latter
inst elected Senator from Louisiana bu
who has not yet taken his seat. Moth
ing more should 10 needed to bring the
whitening scorn Of every man who was
loyal to Lis country upon such shame
less prostitute, than to read the follow
ing from the columns Of his OWE
paper:
The South has cent come splendid
men into politics since the war. Wade
Hampton. Lamar. Randall Gibson,
N. C. Butler, and others are no
eold. FLOODED sehemers, pulling wires in
corners, but fine specimens of vigorous
manhcod, in the prime of life, who
illustrate the virtues of the Southern
character without mauiiesting its faults.
They are not hotheaded or romantic,
but carry level heads and noble bodies
and they inspire affection as well as
confidence among all with whom they
come in contact. They are no mum
mics whose purposes must be read il
cipher, nor spiders who spin webs to
secure power, but honest, manly men
who sey what they mean and mean
what they say, and whS have come into
public lif- because they love their own
people aod the love is enthusiastically
returned. They are the true conserva-
tives as well az the really progressive
mt n 10 the South. They do not think
jos,ice to their own states is to be won
by aswap with Grantism IN which they
consistency and self respect
for the capyicio us favor Of en- autoCrat,
nor do they think, on the other hand,
til at faithfulness to their OWE people
demands that hey rsfHse 10 recogniEs
that anything whatever has happened
since James Buchanan went ont sf the
ofice Of President.
Much as there might be 10 admire in
the chara eter and actions OF a truly re-.
pentant ex-rebel, what is there to ad-
miIe OF praise in the men named in the
above sxtrsoti Not one Of them but
has cone to the Sepate as Senator Wad-
eigh said, when Butler IVES admitted,
'witt his hands dripping wi tn human
blood" -Four men could not have
been picked ont from amongst those
who are in the Senate from the Sluth,
who were less the choice Ct the people
they misrep resent than they are.
Bach and every one Of them owes his
SUCCESS in reaching q seat in<ths Sen
ate TO the inhuman butcheries of inno-
cent and helpless men and women Of
tho South by midnight riders, Ku Klr1
Klans, rife clubs and members Of tbs
White Camelia. Hampton and But
Ter misrepresent South Carolina in
the Senate, State in which If
there was decent and anything like
\ fair expression Of opinion would send
both such pretended Senators to the
shades OF forgetfulness. Ose of them
will never lose the distinction OF Ham
burg Butcher Butler, while memory
and history bear down to succeeding
generations the recollectons Of the in
human hut heries Of Hamburg and
Ellerton. The time ia too short to for
get the promises and VOWS OF Hampton
10 protect and defend the poor helpless
oo!ored people Of South Carolina from
The dreadful prosecutions to which
they were subjected. These promises
and vows lay stranded and scattered |
AID broken all along Hampton's bloody |
rack to the United States Senate. South |
Carolina en- fair election is a Repub |
lean Stale by %, 600 majority, and yet
though violence uple Of usurpers
'scupy seats in the Senate Of the Uni
ed States, Hho & ould lover see polit-
ca daylight Ii the people wers allowed
fair expression Of opinion. Lamar
in the United States
senate another subjngated State
where Republican majority of 80, coo
vas crushed ont in violence and blood, A
title over $4,000 votes in that State
we're CTS. at tbs last election for six
congressman, while in the North or
ven in tn Snutb UhnrA fa;, ,t.o...
re held generally FROM %, 900 to 80, 600
stes are cast for single Congressman.
ut in Mississippi the average vote
asst ID about 5000. Some of them are
lee:sd by vote little over 1900 with
dozen or two Of scattering votes in CD.
osition. Where are the votes They
re there Just as numerous as in New
.oFk er Pennsylvania, but they are in
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