The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-06

and who writes a column. or two q day in larga
type, and then says: Thank God | am not a.
bad as yonder public mang' Let us remember
that we belong to a nation of nearly sixty mill
ions of people, and that the man at the head Of
the state is the greatest invalid in the country.
The President of the United States has hardly
any of the reliefs afforded by older systems &c
government; he is an exposed man. The last
President was murdered. Two former Presi-
dents were in danger. The President who
passed through the war victorious and went as 4
war correspondent to the James river was finally
killed in a theater. All these are heroic men.
taking their lives into their hands. What dan
ger does the pessimist reformer take in his hands
when he sits down every day to incite the peo-
pie to violence against their magistratel
/ stood in Garfields room and sawt to the south
two windows, and to the east, facing the ocean,
one window, aud then thought how little / had
done, or any one of the scribes who published
the newspapers, compared to the awful suffer
lngs OF that man, who did not solicit the presi-
aency, who received it with hesitation and dis
tress, and who, in receiving it, had to suffer
pains and miseries such as no slave fogged on
the plantation ever knew. He suffered all that
for US. His Secretary, now taking the risks Of
a. presidential candidate, s,as experienced no
viler attacks than Garfield knew. Can we expect
joy and prosperity in our Nation when we are so
harsh to our public menu Arise, and give at
least as much faith to your great stewards as
You give to your morning editor.
| was in Washington City when Mr.. Blaine
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In the gallery one day, Jim Young, another corr
respondent, pointed him out to me on the floor
below. My disposition was rather with Dawes,
of Massachusetts, who was Blaine's only com
petitor. don't know why | was for Dawes any
more than these snoisiesn know why they are
against Blaine. Some of them, as / am person
ally informed by sight, only hate Blaine because
he gave them a dinner. 1t is dangerous bust
ness to give a cheap3jack a dinner in your own
house. Only twenty-four years ago the Demo-
cratic party called every man who believed in
freedom to the individual a black Republican
They could not understand why a Re-
publican should be republican for the
blacks as well as the whites. Good luck,
however, has happened TO their preiudices.
They do not count the black Republicans vote,
and they rule their States just the same without
In fact, they are the black Republicans
now. They come to these Democratic eonven-
lions, and cast all the votes of their States, as if
there were no black Republicans there. The Re-
pubhcans came to their convention and showed
the manhood and the logic of their career. They
put IN the presiding chair a Eegro. They submit
ted to some of the defeats of black Republican
ism in taking the vote. On the other hand, the
Republicans have RENAMED the Southern States
to their white population, the former slave-own-
ers. It is a terrible injustice to the Northern
States to have this solid South confronting them
all the time. But we have hopes that their own
sense of justice will at last come to our rescue,
and that in the North they will find their truest
alliances with the men here who had to carry
the burden of that great war just as the poor
white men in the South had to carry the burden
of the rebellion.