Randall, thinking this pretty extraordinary doctrine, attempted to reply, when a man in the crowd yelled out : "We don't want no d-n Yankee to come here and talk to us; we had better shut him up." Then a brass band from Shubuta, Mississippi, struck up to prevent his being heard! The hour at last has come to take the Presidency "and resume the record of glory, &c., where in 1860 it unhappily closed." The regular Democratic committee of Virginia in its address says: "For fifteen years the Democracy of the Union have longed for this hour, when, their internal discords healed, Federal interference with elections measurably prohibited, and a Congress, Democratic in both houses, securing an honest count, they might take up the burden of executive administration, and resume the record of glory, peace, prosperity, and fraternity, where in 1860 it was unhappily closed." Colored Republicans dare not take the stump in the South. They would be shot down like dogs! A delegation of colored Republicans, appointed by a convention of colored men, called July 30 upon the Republican National Committee to urge the sending of our most prominent white men to canvass and try and break up the "Solid South," and in their address said: "Not a hair on the heads of these men would be touched for fear of awakening the ire of the loyal men of the North; but if this committee should send (for we believe it is your province so to do) canvassers of our race South they would be shot down like dogs, and nothing more heard or said about it. We cannot sit idly down and see our speakers and our race decimated by the rebel rifle or the knife, or see them taken in the still hours of the night and scourged and hung from the nearest sapling, simply for advocating the principles of that party which claims our support, without uttering to you our solemn protest." Says the New Orleans Picayune (Democratic): The negro is passing out of politics. He can never figure again in that arena as a Republican, for the simple reason that the Republican party has no longer any uso Cor him-or rather, any opportunity to use him. The Southe States are all hopelessly Democratic, and it would bo waste of money sorely needed in more promising quarters, to canvass this section in the interest of the ChiWe understand that it is not the incago nominees. tention of the Republican party managers to attempt to organize a campaign in this State, and they have equally good reasons to abandon the struggle in all the other Southern State. If the negro is wise he must begin to see that he has now as little to hope from the Republican party, as that party has to expect from him. He will see that in his own section he must side with the dominant party or, politically speaking, go to the wall altogether. A Dialogue between North and South-The South's declared purpose “to revive the memories of the war" and chant the glorious achievements of the rebels ! The New Orleans Democrat prints this: "Southerner (to Northerner)-Why do you shake at us the bloody shirt? Why do you aim continually to revive the hateful memories of inglorious war?. Shall byegones ne'er be byegones?" "Northerner (to Southerner)-Why do you, by ever making your rebellious deeds the glorious apotheosis of treason, provoke us to do it?" "The New Orleans Organist-The superb heroism of such men deserve to be perpetuated in song and story, and their bright examples of patriotism and duty to be held up before our young men, to whom the memories of the war are as vague as the images of a dream. ** *It is the purpose of the Democrat to revive those memories * ** with the design of teaching the growing generation of young Louisianians what an imperishable heritage of glory they have in the achievements of their fathers." mies White Republican candidates "should be saturated with stench!”—1000 Democratic votes equal to 5000 Republican votes !-"We have the count!" Governor Wiltz of Louisiana says the White Republicans to be branded as ene"South is Solid" for Hancock-" There is no occasion now for Bulldozing.” Governor Wiltz of Louisiana was recently in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A Milwaukee Sentinel reporter "interviewed" him, with this result: "In your opinion, General Hancock may figure on a Solid South?" A letter signed "Southern Democrat," in the Memphis Avalanche, says: Yes, sir; and from what I have seen during my trav-licans should be promptly branded as the bitter and malig els I believe there is not a doubt of his election.' "No, sir"-(excitedly). "In the dispatches this morning, General Weaver, the Greenback candidate for President, is credited with saying that the stories of bulldozing and frauds in elections in the South have not half been told?"} "That is false" (again excitedly.) "As regards our State," the Governor added. "Is it true as regards any State in the South?" "I do not think there has been intimidation in any part of the South. I think the colored people have opened their eyes, and it would be difficult for the Republican party to re-organize them, and without their aid the Republicans cannot hope to carry any Southern State." "But these reports of Southern outrages are specific as to places, dates, and all that would seem to give the character of reliability." "White men who dare to avow themselves here as Repubnant enemies of the South. The name of every Northern man who presumes in this community to aspire to office through Republican votes should be saturated with stench. As for the negroes, let them amuse themselves, We have the if they will, by voting the Radical ticket. count.. We have a thousand good and true men whose brave ballots will be found equal to those of five thousand vile Radicals." The Democrats control South Carolina, and they intend to retain it at every hazard! Says the Barnwell (S. C.) People: "The Democrats have obtained control of the State of South Carolina, and they intend to retain it at every hazard, and in spite of the utmost efforts of local enemies and their Northern allies." "Heroic deeds" of rebellious sires to be held up for the “emulation and admiration" of the sons. Speaking of the " dreadful strife which made the South a ruin, but which has, at least, left her a legacy of glorious memories," and of the men who have since grown to control the destinies of the South, the New Orleans Democrat says: "For our young men, therefore, citizens of Louisiana and of the Republic, we propose to hold up for their emulation and admiration the heroic deeds of their fathers," &c. "We have no excuses to make for being a solid South." At a Hancock ratification meeting, July 17, at Floyd, Ga., as quoted from New Orleans Democrat, July 24, 1880, among the extracts which that paper gives "from the fine address delivered by that elegant orator, David Todd, Esq., of Norehouse," is this: "Mr. Todd, in speaking of a solid South, said, We have no excuse or apologies to make to bloody-shirt politicians for being a solid South.'" "Many accounts from Alabama come to us filled election. The most shameless and open discrepancies with evidence of the frauds practiced in the late exist between the ballots cast and those counted. At Huntsville an amount of suppression and intimidation equal to that used in the worst days of reconstruction. was openly carried on. Comment upon these things. without more positive action, does little good. The party who condemn these outrageous abuses, be they committed by whom they may, has a hard work be fore it, but it must be accomplished. The execution of the law, and the laws themselves, must be such as to prevent similar action by any party. That party which parades a platform sonorously quoted by the man who voted to protect brute force in Congress, which declares for a 'free ballot, and leads its forces to such a victory as that gained in Alabama, is a party of hate, of malice, and the protector of the worst crime known to nations, the treacherous subversion of the people's will. Work against it; vote against it; refuse its alliance. Let the honest men come out of it."-Wash. National View (Greenback), Aug. 14, 1880. CHAPTER III. Revolutionary Acts and Purposes of the Democratic Leaders. "The great fraud of 1876-"77, by which, upon a false count of the electoral votes of two States, the candidate defeated at the polls was declared to be President, and, for the first time in American history, the will of the people was set aside under a threat of military violence, struck a deadly blow at our system of representative government; the Democratic party, to preserve the country from a civil war, submitted for a time in firm and patriotic faith that the people would punish this crime in 1880; this issue precedes and dwarfs every other; it imposes a more sacred duty upon the people of the Union than ever addressed the conscience of a nation of free men."-Declaration of Democratic Platform, 1880. PART I. Introduction to the evidences of Tilden's contemplated high crime against the Republic-Brief review of the Revolutionary Proceedings-Their remarkable growth-How a Minority can Overthrow a Government-Forcible illustration of the Dangers that Potter sought to Precipitate upon us--Plausible Pretexts for Revolution always on hand. Revolutionists always have a plausible excuse for what they intend to do, whether the scene of operations be France, Mexico, or any other country, and that excuse is always to right some alleged wrong, and restore to the dear people something which it is alleged they have lost; and hence the importance of furnishing no similar pretext at this election. Most of the modern revolutions in republics have been brought about by the ambition of partizans on pretexts of falsehood to promote the selfishness of reckless and designing men. They have methods which bear a strong likeness to each other, and show that they all come of one family. The dear people have been robbed or cheated, and the disinterested patriot proposes to rally a force and set things right. Louis Napoleon as the “People's Cham pion" and the "Imitator of Washington." It is almost impossible to detect the real reason of the revolutionist at first. Louis Napoleon achieved his designs by pretending to be the champion of the people, and as president of the Republic made himself their master. He announced himself an imitator of Washington; whom he imitated with a vengeance. Santa Anna's pretext in 1828 a pretended | Tilden's return from Europe and the study presidential election fraud. of revolutionary plans in France-His first gun. Santa Anna took the field in the first instance, 1828, on the pretext that the two votes by which Pedraza was declared elected president of Mexico over Guerrero were fraudulently obtained, and the subsequent innumerable revolutions, which have made a hell of that devoted country, have been the legitimate offspring of the attempt by that scoundrel to avenge that pretended fraud. War, confusion, debt, anarchy, and despair have for fifty years been the annual product of the efforts of the Mexican-Tilden to set things right. Then Tilden returned from Europe. He went away ill-too ill to rally and conduct a revolution. But rest and a sea voyage restored his vigor, and time to lay plans had been so improved that he was ready for the first step in imitation of Santa Anna. A serenade was instituted, and Tilden came out with a speech ostensibly to thank his friends for coming to greet him, but in reality to "fire the popular heart" and discharge the first gun in his campaign of revolution. oath! The Mexican-Tilden's "stock in trade."— Samuel J. Tilden swears a tremendous To annul the election of Pedraza because of a pretended fraud was the stock in trade of Santa Anna. All the horrors of Mexico have come from that, and revolution has become the chronic condition of Mexican society. The evil all grew out of a determination not to abide by a duly declared settlement of an election, by the constituted and legal authorities, in the mode and at the time and place fixed by the constitution and laws of the land. Similar conditions, mode of action, and revolutionary designs as to the American Presidency. The designs of the conspirators against our own President can be read by the similarity of the conditions and the mode of action. Hayes had but one majority, while Pedraza had two; but the closeness of the vote furnished the pretext. Hayes was not accused of tyranny or tyrannical acts; he was not accused of seeking to injure or oppress any class of people; he was not charged with seeking to promote sectionalism, or strife, or party spirit, or discord. He was not charged with violating the laws or performing any arbitrary or indecent acts. The public mind had settled into the belief that he was duly declared elected, and as President he was fairly and honestly performing his duty in a legal and constitutional way. In this speech he announced that "the people had been robbed;" that "robbery was a crime:" that it "must be avenged;" that, so help him God, "I swear in the presence of you all--and I call upon you to bear witness of my life over the rights of the citizens of to the oath-to watch during the remainder the same import, too tedious to quote. our country with jealous care;" and much of Nobody stirs at the sound-Sammy plays 66 possum." The popular heart did not fire, notwithstanding this tremendous oath. There was no response, and "order reigned in Warsaw." It became necessary to try some other plan, make believe dead. and Tilden was forced to play "possum" and Tilden's grievance and the Mexican business-Maryland.eats terrapin, and sees spots in the sun. The month of January came and the various Democratic legislatures met, looked at the grievance of Tilden, and wisely concluded not the Legislature of Maryland. The Legislature to go into Mexican business that year-all but of Maryland had two distinctions not enjoyed by any other. It was once bodily imprisoned one George B. McClellan-and had for a memfor disloyalty by a National Union generalcould invent a grievance, if one could be inber Montgomery Blair. Such a Legislature vented, and they did. Blair, by a free use of champagne and terrapin, put through a resolution that the State had been cheated in the electoral count the same language that Tilden had used-and the wrong must be redressed. This looked harmless and almost laughable. So does a cat sometimes when mice are near. A review of the revolutionary movements since President Hayes' accession. There being no wrongful acts of the President, no oppression, no agitation of the public mind, and no discontent or apprehension of trouble, it would seem at first thought that there could be no chance for the success of a conspiracy. Here and there, once in a while, Mysterious conferences of Tildenites at perhaps, a bubble might come to the surface Washington and New York-Speaker -only to burst. Three months after the inRandall captured-King caucus at work. auguration there were mutterings and grum- It looked as though legal proceedings were blings, and even significant threatenings. by to be instituted in the courts. But wait a Tilden and Dorsheimer at the Manhattan little. Some pork doesn't boil that way. Club reception-a sort of ground swell, as it Blair leaves Annapolis and comes to Washingwere-but with that exception it might be ton. There are many mysterious conferences said that eight months passed away without a and consultations, dodgings in and out by ripple. a brother of David Dudley Field, who is Tilden's engineer, and Clarkson N. Potter runs back and forth between Washington and Gramercy Park, and Speaker Randall is dragooned into promising to rule in a motion of inquiry as a question of high privilege, the caucus is invoked, and all the party machinery is brought to bear to get passed a resolution of investigation. Falseness and duplicity of the Democratic pretext for the Potter Investigation— Contradictory House action as to meddling with Hayes' title-How fright will disguise itself. 2. That the real aims of the conspirators were carefully sought to be concealed. 3. That the conspirators sought by illegitimate and riotous means to carry their points. 4. That the usual pretexts and concomitants which mark the courses and methods of revolutionists were manifest in the movements of the Blair and Tilden conspirators. Can a Democratic 'Minority overthrow a All this is done on the Mexican pretext that preciated by the people. The people imagine The conspirators know some things not apnothing is intended but the unearthing of a that the Government can be overthrown only fraud; but see the falseness and duplicity. A by the majority, but the Democratic leaders motion is sought to be made to declare that it know that a few bad, cunning, and desperate is not intended to question the title of Hayes, men can so wield the masses that a revolution and it is squelched with yells, and the most once started takes on a momentum entirely out talented, most distinguished, and one of the of proportion to numbers or the merits of the most venerable sages of the House is inde- case which they present. Virginia, Tennessee, cently hooted down, because the conspirators and North Carolina were strong Union States dared not trust their scheme to the test which from conviction in 1861; but the storm of is always applied to honest proceedings. The revolution, once started, became a whirlwind conspirators knew their scheme could not and the beggarly and contemptible minority succeed if put to such a test, and so they swept the majority out of the Union in a choked the test and the mover by riot and twinkling, and thousands upon thousands of Bedlamite howls. A few weeks later, however, honest Union men carried rebel muskets the House got frightened into passing the resolution that the title of Hayes could not be which they cordially hated and despised. through the war, or died fighting in a cause meddled with, but if they were really of this Even Robert E. Lee was a Union man, but deopinion their howling it down at the start can-luded with a notion that he must follow his not be accounted for. Their intentions had not changed, evidently, but they found it necessary to endeavor to conceal them awhile longer, and hence the resolution was allowed to pass; but neither Potter, McMahon, S. S. Cox, Knott, Blackburn, Southard, Springer, nor A. S. Hewitt voted for it. It did not commit the next House; and nothing pre-end no man can see. vented the next Democratic House from carrying out Democratic revolutionary designs, but Nip it in the bud-Three Revolutionary the voice of the People, expressed in a greatly decreased Democratic majority in that Body. State. Now the delusion will be that they must follow their party, and must have vengeance for an imaginary "fraud," and so one and another have already been whipped in, and others will continue to be till the torch of revolution is lighted, and then the Mexican methods will be fairly inaugurated, and the Constituents. The only way to stop revolution is to nip The Hale Amendment and Potter's Jesuit-it in the bud. At the commencement there ical offer. are in revolutions three parties-those who are in the movement, those who oppose it, Mr. Hale made an offer to investigate Til- and those who think nothing will come of it. den's attempted frauds, and the conspirators The first are usually a small minority; but pretending to desire the evidence of fraud, the vicious classes in our cities, the fanatics, voted it down. Mr. Potter pretended that he the soldiers of fortune, all instinctively rally was willing to do this if Mr. Hale would say to the support of any deviltry; the timid are he had new evidence, but he well knew Mr. scared in or into neutrality, and the desperaHale and the Republicans had regarded the does soon have their own way, and confusion, case as finally settled and had not been look-desolation, and destruction abound on every ing for new evidence, and had no occasion to connive with liars and perjurers to get a show of new evidence on which to hang a pretext of revolution, and knew they wouldn't had there been occasion. hand. How France was strangled in one night by one weak, shallow man !—Our greater danger from the crafty, “still-hunting" Tilden-Tilden's Democratic bonbons. hey laughed at the idea of a coup d'etat down avowed this, and so did others. The scheme o the very night it was accomplished. Then, was growing, and moderate men would lose o their intense disgust, they found their control of it. When the torch of revolution hroats grasped by the hand of the insignifi- in a country like this is once lighted, hell ant villain, and there was no help. The itself follows. The stormy passions of men iation was strangled in a night, and, to the are unchained and rage with bloodthirsty.viosurprise of everybody, the assassin was sup-lence, and the scenes become indescribable. ported and sustained by men of more ability Victor Hugo, in trying to describe the French han Montgomery Blair, and more character revolution, says: The gloomy armed men, han Sam Randall and Clarkson Potter. Such massed together, felt an appalling spirit enter coundrels are always supported by better into them they ceased to be themselves and men than themselves, and Tilden had secured became demons. There was no longer a his coterie already. Some had been allured single French soldier, but a host of indefinby promises of being made cabinet ministers; able phantoms, carrying out a horrible task, others fooled with the notion that there was as though in the glimmering light of a vision. to be some fun, but not to amount to a revo- There was no longer a flag; there was no lution, while the natural cussedness of a good- longer law; there was no longer humanity; ly number, which circumstances had hitherto there was no longer a country; there was no kept suppressed, would improve the occasion longer France they began to assassinate." Even for a little antic; and so, altogether, there this language fails to depict the horror and were no lack of allies. The rank and file came misery which a revolution brings. Men turn from the million of Democratic place-hunters, into brigands and women become fiends. who pretended to feel that the counting in of Homes and hearthstones are abolished. All Hayes cheated them of an office which they that is held sacred is violated. and where would get without fail if Hayes were bounced. peace and plenty and security reigned, want, Montgomery Blair admitted that there were famine, and terror come in and take their many members wholly opposed to the revolu- places. tion; but they were to be forced in by this mighty pressure of a million ravenous officeseekers, who could not wait two years for a regular election. The only way to avoid all this is to crush the Democrats right out of Congress by electing Republicans. It was to avoid this terrible condition of “Revolutions_never go backward "-To things that the people reduced the Democratic what magnitude this had swollen in a few short months! majority in the House. To avoid this condition of things in the near future, the solid Revolutions grow in these days by a natural South—the conspirators who through Hancock law. and they cannot be controlled when would work revolution-must be dealt a stagunder full headway, nor stopped except in gering blow. But this can only be done by their earlier stages. See how Tilden's had electing Garfield to the Presidency by an elecaugmented. When the Manhattan Club ga- toral vote so large that none will dare dispute thering was held it passed away like a smoke- it, and by electing a Republican House that whiff. When Tilden made his revolutionary will set the seal of condemnation upon the speech in October there was no response. Itvolutionary proceedings of the last two Confell flat. When Blair introduced his resolu- gresses. tion in the Maryland Legislature it was almost unanimously condemned by the members; and yet it went through. It came to Congress and had but few friends; but a few weeks of cunning manipulation by Blair, Field, and Potter, under direction of Tilden, and a great investigation is inaugurated. Men are put on the stand to blacken the character of eminent statesmen-that on the stand confess them selves liars, owning that they could be and were bribed, and confessing that they are without moral character, and the respectability of Clarkson Potter is obliged to associate with them, and he and McMahon are compelled to defend as manifest a set of rascals as ever came to the surface. And this was but the work of a few months. What as many more months would bring forth no man could imagine. PART II. The Potter Letter-He would have thrown the Election into the House to make Tilden's chances sure-The House the sole judge of Presidential Elections and can act alone on its own information! It is “supreme "The Democratic House having followed his advice, Tilden must have been elected if Potter is to be believed-Tilden as Commanderin-Chief of the Federal Army! The horrors to which the pallid, halfpalsied old man of Gramercy Park The fact that Clarkson N. Potter, of New would have doomed the American people. York, the next door neighbor, at Gramercy The conspirators meant mischief. The Park, of Samuel J. Tilden, was at the head of investigation had no significance in it if not the House Committee striving, by a one-sided aimed at the title of the President. Blair investigation of alleged electoral frauds t |
