Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-11-28
Short Horns of the MischieyOus Ok.

We PRINT elsewhere the remarkGble har-
anguc of James G.. Blaine to hi, political
friends in Augusta, which has called tor h
so much comment from The press of the
country. The intensity of his malicious
venom toward the South there expressed
is only equa'led by the glaring inconsis-
tency of the bold and bad old demagogue
from Maine. 1t was only few months
ago, when Mr.. B 'aine penned his letter OF
acceptance of the Republican nomination,
that he congratulated the country upon
the restored fraternal relations between
the Northern and Southern sections of the
union and the peaceful and law abiding
condition of the Sou hern communities
1t was not until afier the October cleo
tions, when the result In two States and
the progress of the canvass in other agri
cultural States revealed the great mistake
of the "magne'ic" man in stepping so far
in advance of his party upon the protec
ton heresy, that-h threw down the banner
of "prot ection to American industry" and
regardless of his previous declarations.
madly waved the bloody shirt to the end
of the campaign. The result of his last
departure in the States of Indiana and
New York, in which he resorted to it,
must have proved to him that the latter
ensign is as great an eyesore to FthStalm
judging and discriminating peyptssf tie
country as the former. This last post NOR
TEN declaration of he late Mr. Blaine, so
inconsistent with his recent past opinion
now upon record, must be regarded as the
desperate rawlings of deceitful demago-
kxue, foiled in his bad designs.
@fhe fact that five fifths of the colored
population of the South is now accredited
to that section in the Electoral College
and in Congress, instead of two fifhs as
under the original constitution, is the
work of the Republican party, and the
leaders of that party ought to be the last
men heard TO complain of il. 1t is not
right to assume without any proof that
all the black men of the South are inclined
to vote in direct antagonism to the inter
es's and the convictions of the men from
whom they obtain their means of support.
and for the party that places an onerous
tax upon every article they consume. there
by greatly increasing their cost of living,
while at the same time diminishing their
wages, for the pretended purpose of pro
tecting" a couple of million factory labor
les in the Northeastern States. No one
but a bold, bad and desperate demagogue
would make such an assumption. Nor
does any fair minded man of the North
believe that the emancipated slaves ought
to cast the electoral vote of any Southern
State.
II the Republican party made mistake
in prematurely enfranchising the cnlored
men of the South and giving them ful re-
presenta' ion in the electoral col eye, it is a
mistake for which neither he Democratic
parry nor the ''confederate soldier" is re
sponsibe An eminent Republican author
ity has said that this was not only mis-
take, but a "moaster. born Of p4rty nsces
sity aud political iasinceritY. which commit
ed parricide in tie hour nt its birth All
will admit tina ii was not surprising that
the offspring Of such det"stnhle parent ge
should commit the unnatura crime with
which it is charged But why this wild
grief and unprovoked venom at this late
day. long after The parrieide is cnmmi ell
The New York Herald says of B line's
mad utterances that if anything further
were needed to prove what happy de iv
erance it Was to the country tn escape the
rule of such bad man as Blaine. it is
found in his last venemous trade. Bn'
Mr.. Blaine is power ess to do harm The
northern press and the northern people for
the most part dislpprove of his u terances
1t is an ordination of nature shat the IN Is
chievous OK hath short horns