Year: 1872

the way in which the pledges of the
party given to persuade the people to
support its candidate were redeemed.
The enforcement bill, the Ku-Klux act,
the defeat Of measures designed to re-
store and to conciliate, all go to show
that the leaders of the party never in
tended to meet their engagements, and
that the fraud which they have COM
mitted was premeditated.


At this time there is no more talk of
amnesty and conciliation. The leaders
of the party seem to have forgotten
that there was ever time when they
even professed regard for the rights of
men or for the restoration of harmony
in the State. The gospel of eternal hate
and perpetual punishment is boldly
proclaimed. The efforts of the orators
and organs of the party are devoted to
restoring and intensifying the old enmi-
ties. The people are virtually told that,
as they value their old liberties, they
must supplement the war OF arms with
a war of factions, and tread under foot
those who, only because they are power
less, are, not rising in armed rebellion.
It is counted treason to be willing to
vote for Presidential candidate who is
acceptable to the Southern people; and,
no matter how pure he may be, the man
who becomes such candidate is only
saved from being annihilated by the
abuse, denunciation, and ribaldry that
is poured upon him by the fact that
abuse, denunciation, and ribaldry do
not annihilate.


Here is a count in the indictment
against the President and his party
from which there is no evasion. Gen.
n - I,
fessions of liberality toward the South.
There was nothing in his history, char
acter, or acts which did SO Ferve to bind
the people to him as those professions.
For long time they stood to him in
the stead of performances. While the
party leaders were piling up their
mountains of suborned venom against
the South, he was held up to the people
as a miracle of magnapimity-the Pc
culiar representative of all that is large
minded, generous, and humane. He is
made to think in his messages whether
it may not be time to consider about the
removal of disabilities. His sincerity in
this respect may be estimated by the
fact that the force bill and its disrepu-
table supplement were Administration
measures, to secure the passage of which
the entire influence of the President,
to persuade and to corrupt, was en-
ployed. iE .>-


There is no denying that the Presi-
dent and the leaders of his party are
well mated, and that, in respect to the
common policy, they have been agreed.
The one Is no more in favor of amnesty
than the other; and the necessity for
change of hands in the Government is
no greater in the case of the President
than it is in the case of those by whom
he las been surrounded. instructed,
and advised. The fraud which has been
perpetrated upon the people is a COM
mon fraud; and if it Is worthy act on
the part of free people to resent and
punish deliberate deception, which
has been practiced upon them by their
rulers-if it is imperative upon those
the false and to elevate the true-justice
and interest alike demand that they
should all go out together. 20


This is, therefore, no war against the
President merely: it it war against
Gen. Grant and every one of his aiders
and abettors. The country could better
afford to continue Gen. Grant in the
Presidency than to continue them in
the places they occupy as his advisers,
prompters, and confederates. That this
is the sentiment which pervades the
masses of the people, all the phenom-
ena of the canvass thus far bear testi-
mony. There are more dangerous agents
than Grant clio. he'd with authority and
influence in the State, though, in such
hands, there could not well be more
dangerous implement. 1t is not to de-
pose him alone the people are called
upon to rise, and are rising; it is to
expel horde of which he is the nomi-
nal chief, whose members are more
than his equals in profigacy and au-
dacity it is to change the entire system
of go yernmental practice from that
which has obtained under their auspices.


1t is sim pie question Is it right or
wrong for the people of the United
States to desire the restoration of per
sonal equality and social harmony be-
tween the inhabitants of different States
and sections? Did the leaders of the
Republican party reflect the prevailing
sentiment when they substantially
promised clasping of hands across the
chasm opened by the war or have they
reflected it since in laboring, by the use
of dishonest means, to make that chasm
wider and more insurmountable In
1868, they went before the people pla-
cling the claims of their candidate upon
the basis of their promises; now they go
before the people with no better claim
than their broken promises, and false
pretenses more wicked than their faith
lessness to justify their perfdy. Here
is the issue which they have made be-
tween themselves and the people; and
unless it is to be assumed that the people
have retroceded from their own posi-
tions, have ceased to love peace, have
become bloodthirsty, hateful, and in
tolerant, and are aspiring for fresh con-
f1icts, there will be no failure in the ret
ribution.


Dolly Vardens.


Notwithstanding the assertion to the