Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-15

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A day OF two ago there appeared In
the Washington Post q letter bitterly de-
nounciatory of the late President Gar
field. and which was a most scurrilous
attack on the name and memory Of that
gentleman, whose recent tragic murder
excited the sympathy Of the world
This letter was acknowledged to have
been written by a stalwart Republican
and its authorship is attributed to
Chauncey L Filley, of St. Louis. 1t de-
nounces Garfield as "a treacherous,
cowardly, a hypocritical man, selfish TO
the extreme, and not caring what happen
ed so it did not happen to himself, " and
then goes on to speak of him at
the Chicago convention as "whimpering
like a spanked baby" when he received
the Presidential nomination; and declares
that he was "a professional Office seeker
and professional politician, and that
though ga failure as a preacher and a
lawyer, ne learned to string words to-
gether as a child often does beads, and
that was his stock in trade" Continued
abuse, Of like nature, makes up the
entire Communication. and its general
character may be readily discerned from
the above quotations.
Asmight only have been expected, this
mean attack upon a man who was bru-
tally as assinated by vain and disap
pointed politician because of the faith
full discharge Of what he conscientiously
believed to be his duty to the whole
country, has excited the utmost indigna-
ton, and its author is justly character
lied as even more worthy of the con-
tempt of all honorable men than is Gui-
teau himself. The assassin murdered
the President because being ga stalwart
Of the stalwarts" he felt offended at the
course Of the administration, and mag
ined that if he killed Garfield, he would
be the means of restoring the stalwarts
to power, and would receive the com
mendation of his party. The author IF
this letter, also a stalwart of the stall
warts, deliberately, to crafty partisan
malice, takes advantage Of the occasion
offered by the late publication of the
alleged Garfield Chase letter, TO break
open the coffin of the deceased Presi-
dent and give his lifeless remains a
stab-an attack all the more cowardly,
because the dead statesman is powerless
to defend himself. 1t is well said that
the meanest act the meanest Democrat
ever committed pales in comparison
before this deadly, cowardly attack
made on a murdered man by a con-
spicuous, prominent member Of Gar
fields own party.
ChaunceY L Filley, the reputed au-
thor of the scurrilous communication,
is, we believe, the Postmaster of St.
Louis, and is one of the champion stall
warts of Missouri. He is an ardent
Conklingite, and may be regarded, to a
certain extent, as the spokesman of the
late nominee to the Supreme Bench Of
the United States. Whether he is the
guilty man or not, the fact that it was
written by Republican of his stripe,
and that it is by common consent attri-
buted to him, is evidence that it is ex-
the entire stalwart wing of the Radical
party. 1t will, therefore, be productive
of good to the country at large, for the
Indignation which it must excite among
the conservative Republicans, as we'll as
among all right thinking men in the
world, must have q tendency to widen
the breach in the Radical ranks and
hasten the disintegration of that party