Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-09-25
THE woRNOUT BLOODY SHIRT,

what Senator Butler, OF South
Carolina. Has TO Say of Sherman's
Recent Speeches.
While in New York some eight days ago
Senator Butler was asked by q Herald re-
porter what effect Senator Shermanis
bloody shirt speeches had on the South.
He said:
"As much as q fly speck on Q mirror.
But don't ask me abous that. There is too
much ~demagogism in those speeches to
warrant serious discussion. Mr.. Sherman
reminds me OF the man who robbed the
~storehouse, and, 10 distract attention from
his robbery, attempted to set fire to o
sedge field and raised the cry Of fire.
Some Investigations are going on in Wash.
ington and elsewhere, and are likely to
continue during the incumbency OF this
Administration, not agreeable to Mr..
Sherman's political palate, perhaps, and
possibly he may be anxious TO divert the
public attention from the storehouse that
has been robbed by trying to build q fire
in the charred Southern sedge field; but
the same sedge will not burn itwice. any
more than the same powder. / take ii for
granted when this Administration has dis
posed of the more serious offense Of the
storehouse robbery-an offense committed
| during the incumbency of Mr.. Sherman
and his party in the administration Of the
National Governmental will turn its at
tention to the Southern sedge field. and,
as far as i. can cons.itutionally, correct
whatever is wrong there. u if it finds
anything / wish it better success than Mr..
Sherman achieved for the twenty years be
and his friends had their own way"
care we to understand you to admit
as true what Mr.. Sherman says OF the
South 2"
"Not at all. I am prepared to admit
we have faults and irregularities in out
elections in the South. but these are nor
more glsring or fagran. thsn in other
parts of the country, and / have known
nothing in the South In the last five years
half so bad as the election outrages COM
mitted in Ohio during her last State eec-
ton by Mr.. Sherman's own political
friends and allies. The statement that
the blacks are disfranchised in the South
is false, and nobody knows 1t is false better
than Mr.. Sherman"
"Is there any feeling or desire any
where in the South to reverse the results
of the war or unsettle what has been set
| tied ?"
"Another of Mr.. Sherman's romances.
There is no such feeling that / am aware
Of. The Supreme Court Of the United
States has settled q good many things at
tempted by Mr.. Sherman and his party in
his plans Of reconstruction, but he seems
to have let this court severely alone in his
criticisms and revamped the stale ISLANDERS
about the people of the South. Surely
there is intelligence enough at the North
to see through Mr.. Sherman's motives.
Instead of helping us to solve what he ad-
mits to be a difficult problem he would or
ganiZe another crusade TO rob and plum
der us. The history and experience OF
the past twenty years have proven one
thing beyond peradventure-that Mr..
Sherman is unfit TO deal with this South
ern problem. His failure on that line has
been most lamentable, and he had better
practice for awhile that much neglected
virtue Of minding his W business, and
if it should make him unhappy, bring on
commissions or prove otherwise hurtful.
he might find profitable employment for
that restless, active talent for reform that
has hitherto SO distinguished his public
career on objects nearer home"
Tnoeak e. n.-foa-Io noao- 1Acnn an~Sar