The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-24
A STRANGE OMISSION.


The Ensanguined Garment Since Sher-
mans Assumption of the Role OF ''is-
ItinS Statesman"
Mr.. John Sherman delivered speech
at Mount Gilead. O., and as it had been
= long time since he had had that
pleasure, so he said, he used printed
copy in order that there might be no
mistake hereafter by either party vi
course, the Senator raised the ''bioody
SKIRT" That enSanguined garment has
been part of his wearing apparel or
baggage since long before he was
Visiting Statesman" in LOUISIANA.
Mere is an extract from that portion OF
his remarks:
The rebels are on top. Some of the very
.nen who boaStfully threatened TO break up
the Union, and. with the oath of office IN sup
port of the Constitution fresh upon their HpS,
co1spired aud confederated to overthrow II:
Naged war against II and were the cause OF
the loss OF half million of lives and tnou-
sands of millions Of treasure have been
placed in hIgn Office again. in the very SeItS
OF power which they abandoned with scorn
and defiance Two members of the Conted-
crate CONGRESS and one man who - ynpathiZeo
with them are at the head or great Depart
mentS of the Government
No Cabinet members exactly tit this
description; but it Is supposed that
Bavard, Lamar anI Garland are re-
ferrcd to- 1t is cheerfilly admitted
that the two latter were in III Confed-
erata service, though not both in the
Confederate Congress, and though Mr..
Bayard did not Sympathze with them,
it is as cheerfullv granted that the
charge that he did has been repeated
fully rs often as Presidential elections
occur. The Democratic President and
the Democratic party have no apologies
to offer for the presence OF these men
in the Cabinet. There is no State in
the Union from which Il Democratic
President will not take Cabinet Otli-
cer. if ne see fit. If there lie anything
in this point John Sherman may have
it, but the Ohio Senator went further
and said:
This strange turn in events has but one ex-
ample in history. and that was the restorat ON
OF Charles H. after the brilliant but brlei Pro
tectorate OF Cromwell. and ike that reStor;l-
age.
1t has been several years since
Charles H. was seated on his throne. so
tnat Mr. Sherman's hearers AMI the
readers of the Post may not be able to
trace the similarity between the two
cases; but. coming down to modern
times, there is 4 case tolerably fresh in
mind which is worth citing.
Mr.. John Sherman. after performing
in the role of Visiting Statesman" be-
came. on account thereof y Cabinet oili
Ger under Hayes, being Secretary of the
IL a . hCn n,.l
wa, one d. NJ. Key. of Tennessee, who
WAS not only u rebel who had CON
spired and confederated. against the
Union. but he was even Democrat after
tre war. This same Administration. of
which John Sherman was the actlvepart,
sent General James Langstreet. the
ranking officer of the Army of North
ern Virginia under Lee. and a West
Point graduate. as the Minister of this
country to Turkey. This identical set
of men retained as Consul to Hong
Kong Colonel John S. Mosby. the most
active Confederate partisan at the close
of the war. And, to crown all, just
before the Hayes Administration eX
pred by limitation it made Postmaster
General Key United States Judge for
lfe, in order that this eN-COnfederate
might never be out of Office:
John Sherman as. a. Senator was
equally considerate of those whom he
scores with so many epithets. He
at the bottom of the alliance with Ma
hone, which was no more disgraceful
because the Yirginian was an eH-Con-
federate and had been Democrat. Is
not. this Ohio Republican 4 pretty fel-
low to talk of ''rebels being placed in
high office" and put at the '-head of
great departments What need togo
back a couple of centuries or so to
Cromweirs day, when eight years is
only necessary to show John Sherman
not only approving but advising and
aiding as a Republican what he abuses
other people for doing as Democrats.
THERE'S however, this difference. Both
parties appointed rebels to Office. while
Republicans only rewarded Democratic
traitors.
Is it not about time for a party to- 60
on .ong vacation when this is as good
an argument rs it can put forward for
continued existence and prolonged con-
tentiCn?
By the way. why did not Mr.. Sher--
man abuse the dead Grant for putting
in, his Cabinet not only an, x-Confed
crate soldier, but a Northern man by
birth? This was a strange OMISSION
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