Year: 1872

the latter could not be safely trusted with
their political liberties insisting that in the
place of moro freedom, there must be more
restraint, and instead of amnesty and friend
shin. humiliation and punishment. 1t is only
necessary to allude to the loathsome mass OF
ISLANDERS and exaggerations piled up by Con-
gress Committees, drawn from the vilest
sources and by the most culpable means,
and published to the world as history; cui-
minating in statutes Of the most oppressive
and UNEQUAL character, and provisions intended
70 place the entire election machinery OF the
South in the hands Of the President. This Is
the way in which the pledges of the party
given to persuade the people to support us
candidate were redeemed. The Enforcement
bill. the Ku-Klux act, the defeat OF measures
designed to restore 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 committed was
premeditated.


At this time there is no moro talk OF am
nesty and Cancellation. The leaders OF the
party seem to have forgotten that there was
ever a time when they even professed regard
for tho 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 re-
storing and intensifying the old enmities.
The people arc virtually told that, as they
value their own liberties, they must supple
ment the war Of arms with war OF fac
tions, and tread under foot those who, only
because they are powerless, are not rising IN
armed rebellion. 1t is counted treason 10
be willing to vote for a 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, denunclatlor,
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. Grant came into Office
with brave professions of liberality toward
the South. There was nothing III his
history, character, or acts which dld
so serve to bind the people to him
as those professions. For long time
they stood to him in the stead of perform
ances. While the party leaders were piing up
their mountains of suborned venom against
the South, he was held up to the people as
miracle of magnanimity-the peculiar reprcsen-
tatiye of all that is large minded, generous, and
humane. He is made to think in his messages
whether it NAV 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 disreputable supplement
were Administration measures, to secure the
passage of which the entire influence OF the
| President, to persuade and to corrupt was
employed.
There is no denying that the President 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 a change of hands IN the Gov
ernment is no greater in the case OF the Pres
| ident than it is in the case of those by whom
he has been surrounded instructed, and ad-
vised. The fraud which has been perpe-
tratad upon the people is common
fraud; and if it is worthy act on the
part of q free people to resent and
punish deliberate deception which has been
practiced upon them by their rulers-if it is
imperative upon those who seek to be well
governed to depose the false and to elevate
the true-iustice and interest alike demand
that they should all go out together.


This is, therefore, no war against the Presl-
dent merely: 1t is 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 phenomena of the canvass thus
far bear testimony. There are more danger
GUS agents than Grant clothed with authority
and influence in the state, though, IN such
hands there could not well be a more danger
GUS implement. 1t is not to depose him alone
the people are called upon to rise, and are
rising; it is to expel horde of which he is
the nominal chief, whose members are more
than his equals in prohigacy and audacity; 1t
is to change the entire system OF governmental
practice from that which has obtained under
their auspices.


1t is simple question: Is it right or wrong
for the people of the United States to desire
the restoration of personal equality and social
harmony between the inhabitants of different
States and sectiOns2 Did the leaders of the
Republican party reflect the prevailing senti-
ment when they substantially promised a
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 insur-
mountable7 In 1868, they went before the
people placing the claims of their candidate upon
the basis of their promises now they 90 before
the people with no better claim than their
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