National Republican., 1881-09-19

soldiers to avoid actions or expressions
which tended in any way TO continue the
feelings which the war engcndercd"
And again he says: "The maintenance
of distrust, discord, and estrangement is
inconsistent with the best civilization
and the purest Christianity, and will re-
tard progress and prosperity" &c.
These words would convince any one of
the entire soundness of the writer's anti
Bourbon disposition if they were left to
stand by themselves. But he is bitterly
nrraigned by the Alabama editor, as fol-
lows
His whole canvass for Congress last year was
made upon bitter, virulent and sectional basis.
He was the Bourbon of Bourb0ns winding up the
election with an open and shameless fraud in the
" "count-out by which he got his certificate, and
upon which a contest is now pending for his eX-
posuro and expulsion. Shall he, under these cir.
cuinstanccs, he allowed to make political capital
and evidence for himself out of the Chattanooga
meeting? No. 1t would be highly improper
We can never make friends with the
honest men. of the North while we
allow the Bourbon element TO msrcprcscnt us in
the South. Nor can we condemn false and cor
rupt methods in politics without condemning the
men who employ them and profit by them We
cannot cover mp fraud at the bollOt.boX by n
parade Of sentiment or show Of holiday hos
pitality. The crime of crimes cannot be excused
by such tafIy and trcaclel In vain Is the Bourbon
snare set in the sight of the Northern bird Of or
dinary common sense.
Thenappcars the following extract from
q public letter. addressed by General
Wheeler to Colonel Lowe during the last
campaign, in which they were opposing
candidates:
You lLowel chose your scat in Congress on the
Radical side ofthc House, where your forty near
o,t associates thirty-ninc Radicals mostly If
not all hard money, high-tarT Radicals, and two
Southern scalawags, men dcspised by the South
e-n people who live in their districts, &c.
The two distinct characters in which
General Wheeler appears by the two let
ters quoted from place him in much the
position which Jacob occupied when steal
ing the blessing Of his father which be-
longed TO his elder brother. "The hand
is the hand of Esau, but the voice is the
voice of Jacob"
The particular device by which General
Wheeler was made to appear as having
been elected is thus stated:
But General Wheeler, having failed by this sort
OF canvass to elect himself to Congress- undertook
to reject enough of the votes cast for colonel Lowe
(himselfa brave, battlo.scarred confcderne) to re-
verse his popular majority. To this result
certain notorious yellow circular" was secretly
issued by Wheeler and his agents, ordering the
election officers to reject certain votes cast for Coll
onel Lowe upon an absurd and fraudulent tcchni-
callty, Upon this circular was written, perhaps
In Wheelers handwriting. the following signin-
cant sentence: To be sho,gn only 10 rery discreet
friends" 1t accomplished its purpose; several
hundred of loves votes were thus rejected and
Wheeler, by forty-threo majority, got his alleged
certificate. These, in brief. are some of the facts
proven in the peuding contest and known to the
public generally.
We have seen the "yellow circular"
referred to, and, as the facts are repre-
sented the seat clearly belongs to Colonel
Lowe.