The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-08-25
AN ECHO OF BLOODY FLAG DAYS.

just when the North aud the South I
are beginning 20 feel that after all
they are a part and parcel of the
same country; that the Americanism
OF the one is neither better nor worse
than the Americanism OF the other;
that human nature is the same in
both sections, so far as concerns
quick punishment for unnamable
outrages, some fanatical mischief
maker comes along, puts one section
against the other and stirs up flames
which every patriotic man would
gladly see die out. At this partlcu-
lar time ex-senator Chandler, the
man who helped TO steal away the
Presidency from Tilden in order to
give his party political supremacy,
is the offender and coming as does
the offense from a man OF his stand
ing in the North, it is all the more
aggravated. This man, who was
once a party to the dirtiest, blacklist
and most dishonest political theft
ever perpetrated in this country,
found his opportunity toiling insults
at the South on the occasion OF the
unwilling OF a monument to Chester
A Arthur. Chandler having been
Secretary of the Nayyunder Arthur
administration. The occasion being
As it was SO closely linked with the
memory of a man who was Presi-
dent of the whole United States.
North. South, East and West. and
not Of those sections except the
South was must unauspicious for a
sectional address and a display of
sectional feeling and raucour, and
vet Chandler, with puritanical ny
pocrisv. takes no note OF time or
place. but only sees in the occasion
an opportunity to pit the North
against the South Mr.. Chandler
condemned what he termed the new
Southern American principles LIST
No suffrage for thecolored men 2nd
Trials by mobs and lynchings Tor
the eolored men. 3rd Peonage Tor
the colored men.
Now. Wehaveu' the slightes. doubt
that thi, valiant political robber
carried his hearers, not one of whom
probably understand the negro or
the negro question, TO the highest
point OF enthusiasm from which they
viii later fall with "a dull thud when
the realization comes that the North
is treating the negro with far more
severity than is the South. We do
not read that Mr.. Chandler, in refer
ring 60 mob treatment for the color
ed men. referred even in passing TO
the hatred OF the black man as re-
Gently evinced by the people OF lndi-
ana and Illinois. nor do we read
that he commented even in whisper
ed words of the Delaware barbarism
nor Of the many Northern lynchings
inwhich thepoor, down-trOddenn negro
PLAYED the most dramatic part All
of this Mr.. Chandler cheeriully hop
ped over 10 order to cry out against
the South. The prosperity, the
progress and the happiness OF the
Southern people is gall and worm
wood to his contracted, New England
mind and be is anxious for inter-
necine strife in which the North and .
South shall once more grasp each .
at the Others throat. 1t is not nee
essary To take up in detail the
charges made by Mr. Chandler, since
each OF them has been worn thread
bare in the mills OF discussion. The
only thing worth noticing in relation
to the charges is their hypocrisy
when hurled by the one section
against the other. The South is the
nome Of the negro: he is better treat
ID, better understood and better look
ID after here than in any part OF the
country, as he has discovered by en-
grafton North and West, aud to
this fact and the Justice OF his treat
nent in the South, the Northern pub
c. with the exception OF such can't
ng puritans as Chandler, is fast
Chandler cannot pit the
North against the South, because his
lay has come and gone. lie speaks,
Dut his voice only comes as the echo
IF the days of the bloody flag. The