National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-06

jected, eTcept the madness which should
prompt the confScation ofdH and lis division
among the teW.
The Tribune" and Some Stalwarts.
The New York Tribune says that "the
policy of Cancellation which some Repub-
leans advocated years ago has been
greatly misunderstood and misrepre-
sented," and that "those Republicans
never intended to leave all elections at
the South to be decided by the shotgun,
the tissue ballot, and the false return"
Yet" says tho Tribune, ait has been in
dustriously represented, both by Demo-
Gratis and By some !Stdl'Cdrs, that the
change of policy and the removal Of
troops were designed to leave the minor
ity free to overcome and deiraud the
majority in any part Of the South where
an honest majority of Republicans ex-
isted." This is all contained in an edi-
torial of Friday on the Chamers-Ly
contest in which "thc bloody shirt" is
full high advanced, and a clamorous APP
peal made for prompt action in the re-
naming election cases.
The Tribune is unwilling TO have its
past forgotten, but invites contest with
"some Stalwarts" who have, it declares,
misrepresented its kind In response, as
one of the "some Stalwarts," we have to
say that from 1872 until 1876 the New
York Tribune denounced the cry it now
makes against Bourbon outrages and
frauds as low demagoguism, and a libel
upon the virtuous Democracy. During
all that period it treated the Republican
party as public enemy, and, aided by
the coterie of papers it led, made the en-
forcement of law by President Grant
odious among the weak-minded and the
uniformed. This it was that led the
party so near to defeat in 1876
AS for "the removal of troops" that
was never demanded by the Bourbons,
except as q mode of compelling Presi-
dent Hayes to degrade the national au-
thority. Troops were not removed from
the Northern States, where they had no
more reason to be stationed than at the
South. The Tribune knows that it was
not the removal of troops, but what that
removal symbolized that struck terror to
the hearts of the friends of the Govern
ment at the South. We refer to the bar
gain between high contracting parties
by which Louisiana and South Carolina
were robbed either of their lawful State
governments or of their votes for Pres;I.
dent. The Packard governmentt'in Louis.
lana refused to fall when deserted by
President Hayes. Its life was taken by
violence, under the orders of the Federal
administration, executed by men who
held no office known to our laws. Ifthe
Republicans carried Louisiana and South
Carolina in 1876, then State treason was
successful in overthrowing Packard and
Chamberlain, and the Republicans who
advocated their overthrow must have
"intended to leave all elections at the
South to be decided by the shotgun, &C., u
as charged by "some Stalwarts."
The good that may have resulted from
giving the Bourbons an uncontested field
and the rule in States lost by them at the
election, is no more to be credited to
those who committed that monstrous
outrage than the establishment of the
Christian religion is to be credited to
Judas Iscarot, whose treacherous kiss
was an important step toward that result
The Generalization of the Republican
party by the Greeley revolt and the
Hayes surrender resulted in divisions
among the opposition which no longer
feared being beaten at elections. The
moro progressive elements of the Demo-
cratic party are taking leave Of the Bour-
bons, and the latter, who basked in the
sunshine of Federal power during the
Hayes administration, are now panic
stricken and dreading defeat. A Presi.
dent has been found who will not trade
with Bourbons The political solid South
dental patronage on which it had -four
ished from the spring of 1877
We are glad the Tribune returned to
the Republican fold. Its exhortations to
the House for speedy action on the con.
tested election cases are strong and well
timed, But the less said about its old
Ku-Klux wanderings, or the graveyard
peace at the South during the Hayes adj
ministration, the better If it shall in
any future perverse mood take from its
hiding-place the mask it used to wear or
its midnight raids, or shall revive the
recollection of the dark days of 1877, 10
it not provoke retort by charging thai
"some Stalwarts" have misrepresenteC
the treason which then ilourished over us
A Touching Appeal.
We find in the Florence (Ala.) News o
April 20 q very earnest appeal to william
Robertson, colored barber, who resides
in that town and there plies his trade
Robertson has been juror in the United
States District Court at Huntsville, anC
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