Reform

lt eau not bo deniöd tllat sóon af ter the last .nauguration civil hojVíco beoamo a moro glarnip; political mockery than ever before. The onforcoinout of tho rulos framed by tho Comnüssiou was only au occasional ovont, whilö thoir hu. pension was the ardor of tho day. Gov. Holden, of North Caroline, mowMimpMohea, convigtcd and rondered incapablo of holding ar.y oïuee, was made Postmaster at tlie capital of tbat State. Sharpe, a brotheriu-law of tho President, was appointod Survoyor of tho port of New York, just as if no civil service rnloa had ever boen heard of. Cramer, another brother-in-law, who had disgraeod our diplomatic service during the previons aijpiinistration, was ap'ioinleil by Iho 'resident, and ConBrmed by the Sonate, as Naval Ofticer At New Orloans. Brother-iu-ïaw Caftpy, wiio had laken on board a. govorument voasel tho Grant mombera of tlie Louistana Logisiaturo to protoct them from arrest and prevent a majority of the body from proccoding to business, because tho political intorests of the President demanded this lawlossness, and who stood beforo the country thatched with poHtical corruptiou, was re-appointed and confirmed as Collector of the port of Now Orieaüs. Even Goorgo William Curtió. sQ lónjí hoping agaiust hope, alxd so faithfully clinging to the Prct-ident throttgh thick and thin, was at last obliged to reaign hm poeition in disgust, and to declaro that tho appointmente of tho President showed "an utter abandonment of Boib tho letter and spirit of ci'vLl service regulations." Abont the same time Poter Cooper wroto a most earnost and friondly letter to the President, begging him to reseñe tho city and State of New York from the Custom Houko rogues who had so long disgraoed the civil service and defied tho poople. But tho l'rosident seemed entirely unconscions that anything was going amieü. At the bidding öf Senator Morton bo removed Capt. Blouse from the Pension Ageucy of Indiana, a wonnded soldier and a faithful officer, and appointed in hia place Gen. Terroll, wkosB moral nnfltness for the place is too well known to bs characterized. When Congross abolisued the Government of the District of Cohunbia in order to get rid of Boss Shepherd, who stood revealod as a disgracod public swindler, the President immediatoly appointed him ono of tho Conitnissionera of the new District Government. When the aafo-burglary crimináis were on trial the macbinery of tho District Attoruey's ofllce was cmployed to cheat public j ua tice, and the President, pending tho trial, made a most romarkable demonstraron on the j ary by hl viting one of the defendants to join a company of distingnishod guosts in a toast at the White House. Grantism, ;ouro and simple, finds no better illustration than in the case of Orville Grant. Ho asked his brothor to let him know when anything nnder bis control shonld transpire by wbich he (Orville) could mako somo monoy. The President thonght it right to gratify him, andproc:edcd to desiguatejjertain posMrader-' ehips whioh he might control, liot bocause the incambonts of tho places were incompetent or unwoithy, but that Orville should have the prolits, either by levying blackmail upon them as the prioe of tluiir retention, or by their removal, if they should refuso to be bied. The Department of Justioe was dingraced by oontinning in oflioe Attorney General Williams a year and a half aftor it had been provod that he had appropriated tno public revenue to tho private use of himself and his family; and this same Attoruoy General was af terward appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The real working of ' ' the bost civil service on tho plauot," and "thepureat and best adminiatration this country has ever had, " is made beautifully manifest in the conviction of tüe Secretarv of War on his own conf easion, of making merchandise of the posttraderships nnder bis control, whilo tho President, who had the knowledgo of bis crimina! acta four years ago, accopts his resiguation wita "regret" and with such surprising proroptueüs as to prevent his iegal couviction of high crióles and misdemoanors by the Sonate. The President stood by Secretarv Delano in hie disgracoful performances involviug tho management of Xndian affairs till forcee by public opinión tó givo him up, and then "viudicated him by his customary farewel letter of approval. By ono of those accidenta that have now and thon checkered his admiuistration, ho appointed Bristow as his Secretarv of tho Treasury ; and after tho workof huntinf, down and bringing to justice tho whisky thioves had boen resolved upon by the now Secretary and wfiile the brave worda, "Lot no guilty niai escape," wore winning the plaudits of tho people and fiuding thoir way into tho party platforms as the watchworjs 'of reform, tho President himself was drawing from the Secretary and his subordinates whatever Information his high and trusted position coulc cotnmand relativo to the prosecutiou of his friend Babcock, and placing it in the hands of his attorneys, for no other apparent purpose than that of eeouring bis acjuittal and defeating tlie execution of tho laws ho was sworn to snpport. According to the sworn testimony of msn of high character, he had no sooncr áiscovered that Bristow waa the enemy of thieves tban he resolved upon his removal ; and although bis porpose waí temporarily delayed, it wai not defeated. He sooms to have demanded the hcAi of Blufort' Wileon for kindi'ed reasons. The decapitaron of Yaryan waa another sacrilice to men wliu deserved to ba ciad in prison stripos. Pratt had to walk tho planl; becauso he spoke a íriendly word iu bohalf of Yaiyau, aiid wan bolicvod to ba au honest man. Dyer was obliged to bilo tbc dust for no roaao'u known to tlie public, whicli %ill natiu'ally iufcr that his sole offerise was his refusal to prostituto his office to the ute of tho guilty. Henderson was stricken down for no other dincovorabie r_asou thau that tho coui'ageous performance of his ollicialduty threatencd toinvolve tho WhitaHou.so, or such idolized f rienda of tho President as Gon. Babcock. If Jowell waa not dismissed from tue Cabinet becauso he was the friend of Bristow and his co-worker in reform, thcu tho causo of his dismissal i iuscrutablo. The appoiutment of Tyner as Jewell's successor naturally enters iüto the warp and woof of the same civil sorvicu fabrie, he being the facile instrument of Senator Morton, the leader of the Indiana del - egation to tho Cincinnati Convention in opposition to Biistow, and claiming alno tlio glory of having secivred the nomination of Gon. Uayes. When tho nation was groaning uuder an euormouri burden of debt and taxation, and tho rcireaentatives of tho people voting thomaelvos salaries they had never earned, and doubleii tho pay of tho President, he personally lobbied for the nicaaure in both Houses of Congresa, and promptly legalized tho theft by his signatura. lie appoiuttd a famoua polterplaycr a Minister to Englana, ftnd kopt Lim thero until publio opinión on both sidos cf the Atlantic compollcd liis wiilidrawal, on account of his disgracef ui coimectiou with the Etnma Mino fraud. Ho withdrow tho custody of Govornment funds from the house of Baring, who, I beliove, had held it for geueratious, auc intrusted them to Clews and Haicb, who huve aince bocome bankrupt, a a rowaid for their partisan ervicos, and in spito of warnings thal tliis house was untrustworthy. Ho defended tho moiety system, by which the rovenues 'of the country were farmed out to nolilical scullions for the purposo of aecuring the fortunes of somo of his favoritos, while Gen. Bibcock, who lias been jnstly branded by tho prees as a snoakthief iu tho mothods employed by him in securing bis acquittal of a high crime, is still holding his position of Chief of Enginoers and Commissionor of Public Buildings and Grounds. But suroly I neod not oxtend thin itomizod arraignmentof Grantism auy farthor. Let me say, howevor, that bv the term Grantism, I mean lïepubücanism uuder Graut, and in full co-operation with him. Tho party ununimouely indorsed him four years ago, when all intelligent men know him and lus svil tendencies almost as well as they know them to-day. In all tho Stato Convoutions of tho party, North and South, Eaêt and West, through all those seveu years and a half of miarulo and profligaov, nis adminitration ha been uncoasingly indoraod and lauded. Our State Convention of last Pebruary declared that " the adminislration of President Grant commands our fullcst couiidence and approbation, aud that wo espeoially couimond bim for tho example he will loave to his succesBors, of removing from ofliee lioso of his own appointoiout, whonevor ho bas fonnd thom to bo unfailhful ; and of caiming thoso who aro provod to bo dishoncst to be "o prosecuted that no guilty man Hhould oscapo." Aa if to omphasize this, and muko its moral Bignificauce i)erfectly clonr, tlio couveniion fulsomoly tulogized Senator Morton, and I beliovo unanimously recomniended his nominatiou for tho Presidency. The Cincinnati Convention brought down tho rocord still later, and deolarod that 'President Graut deseivos tuo continued and lioarty gratitudo of the American poople for Li! patriotitini and Iiíh iiumoiisc services iu war and in pnace. And Oon. Hayos a month later saya, " tho resolutioiiH aro in accord with my views." Tlio manifest truth is tbat the Presidout and his party are inseparay'e. Thíir unión is unmiHtakably SinmcBO. Tlio party clings to liim as a dyiug man clings o lira. J'ho Cmciunati indorsement of (Iraní was aftor tho exXsuro of the whisky ringa and ho acceplauce of Bolkuap's resiguatiou ; after !io tria) of Babeock. and the su&meful inlorfovcnoft in iiisbiikslf i after the difgrwef ui OÓD-. ■ . ■ ment. .ü nmUm. fb fouud notliing to condemn in t.ljo lattcr misdeoda of the adnúuistration, ana romembored iiothiug amiss in ite earlier rocorrt. It had no fault to flnd with tin otrscism of Stfmnor nnd the appointmont of Cfamer and Casey and Packard ; with upsetting the Government of Louisiana through a dranken and corrupt Fodoral Judgo, and dispersing tho Legislatvlro of the State wilh thé bayQuet ; with backing up Kellogg and Spencer, aud putting BiÜings in tlJb plfteo .of "''- rell ; with. O!if.o'.iragi"p, tiio oQrati'jno,. bf .!;. . nu and B&DfOtd, and ollowing Orvillo Grapt to niake a living by tho traftic in appointmonts, and with greedily taking tho increaso of 100 por cent. on the Presidout's slary, and his lobbying for tho bill allowing him to do so, whiie tuaking his adminislraticn au asylum for his numerous and uusavory kindrod. All thia was mookly shouldered by the party at Cincinuatí, wlüch crouchod Uke a spaniel at tho f eet oí the master it liad obaciuiimly served for BoVen years. ihe melaucholy tritth is, as so admirably fltatdd l;y the New ïoi-k Trtmine, that " l'resident Grant has dropped bv easy atagfïfl to iheae deptha of ahame. rio has paronthesizcd in history eight years, which will be marked üereafter as tho era of personal government and the poriod of greod ; cight yeara of gch official oorruptiou and dishonesty, such bp' flflhneBK and iüianiolccsnei:':, B'.'ch low aims and base purposes, such grasping avarico and eagor over-reaching, such speculation in oflicial information, uuch bribery and sueh barter and sale of oflieo, and anch degradation of all things which tho nation has held to be high and holy and worthy au honest pride, that to-day the aountry hanpp its heacl and holds its noae and waito for tuis admiuistration to pasfl." tt lies iyalloin5,in , the Jtt0'1; the. irectede of nátio!:ó, While Eeiiator Morton, from liie serene monnt of visión, pronounces it the " bost and purest the country has ever had." QOV. HAYES- WILL HIS NOMINATION WORK MIItACLES? But uow, gentlomen, having shown by irrebitiblo proofs that the Llboral movoaieut of 1872 waa justi&ed.by faHts. í.nd "aMBd for fc'y ÍHq 'uu-u. i,iid that the Kepublican party, instead of retracing its Steps and recovering its lest estáte, haa Bteadily gravitatel farthor and far(her frora its primal integrity, it raay still be argued th&t tho nomination of Gov. Hayos ill out the ugly thread of history 'rom bolilnd it, and laiiuch it oii a new and bleased departure. Believinf;, as I do, that tho age of mirados has passed, I find myself compelled to reject this view. I am acqnainted with Gov. Hayos, and believo him to bo honest and patriotic, and most gladly and cordially would I support l'im if any Republican could eJiplain lo ivo hovi hirt accidental seloctioil at CinCinnati cali nntko saiutfl out of the distingnishod sinuera whd are the recognized leaders and managers of tho party now, as thoy wero föur yeirs ago. If yöu place the hat of an hoHeec man on thB head of a rogue, will the rogriery inatantly depart ? Every one has heard the story of Fortunatus. He had a wishing hat, which relieved him of the expense and labor of traveling. By placing this hat on his head and wishing himself at a given place, ho straightway found hinisell there. Who would not join in building a ment to luo soieiy nenuea gmus wiio couiu manufacture a Presidontial bat that would enabie Qov. Hayes, by a sirbple wish, tochaiige tho nature of Morton, ari,d Camerón, and Butler, and Clayton, and Bos Shepherd. and Babcock, and brother-in-law Casoy, and tho reHt of the uubaptized crew wlio are taxinp their wits anc ponring out tbeir monoy to aoourO his eloction, and will darken the air about tlie Kxecutive Mansiou on the 4tb of Maroh, if he ahould suceeed ? Snch a bat, I am froo to confesa, woulc make Gov. Hayes a pretty respectable President, and he would be able to take up the question of reform and dispose of it with tolerable succeaa. Unfortuuatcly, no sucli head gear lían be fonhd, whiie the great leader o the party in Indiana, and the riglit hand man of tho adminiatration, teil us the party haa no need of it, and that the men who aak for reform are worse crimináis than the thievea thoy wish to exposé and puuiah. Here ia the ugli knot whioh. Liberal Republicana and a goot many other Bepübliöans deairo to eeo nntiéd Can you obtaiu the command of a piratical eraf by simply ohanging the figuro-head of a #eseel ? You must expel tho piratea and put an honeat crew in poasession. Thia ia the truth in a nutshell, and George William Curtía himsel f admita it. Hia cry is "reform within tho party, " which he is abouting along the linea as he did fotlr yB&rfl ago, as if uftorly unmindfn of the fact that under thia battlo cry our civi sorvice has become as foul and foculcnt a sya tem of ofiicial huckateiing and political proatitutnn ai our thoroughly debauched party politics could make it. But he is not blind, like Senator Morton, to tlie ueed of reform, and he tells us in ITarper's Weckly that the only hope of the party liea in the power to persuade tlio pooplo that it is not bopelessly corrupt. He fraukly confesses that reform ia only poaaible by throwing overboard the Grant leaders am trained corruptionista who have brought the party into diagrace. In all sobernoas, I aak, is tuis posible ? Have the Republican maasea after their long and patiënt service undor the party yoke, the courage and virtuo to take thoir old leadera by the throat ? Will tl e party chiefs I have named meekly and pen itentially take tho back seats, while honest auc etainleas men come to tlie front ? The mai who believea all this must havo allowec his comnion aenao to pack ita baggago. Tlie Grant leadera would reign in any conceivable political heil rather than aerve in the boaven of bonost goverument. Iu the manpulation of caucusea and conventions they have long been masten. They are journeymen and experts in the work of politics as a trade. They have reduced plunder and pelf to a scionce and the greed of oluth to a üne art. Notliinii' ■ u be more certaln than that sucU a reform ai would completely dislodgo these leaders auc put such men as Briatow aud Adama in their places, would be, in fact, the creation of a non party. It would have to be preceded by a general disintegration, and it would be quite as absurd to coneider it the camc party which haa niled tho country since Grant camo into power aa it would havo boen to treat the Republican party of 1876 as identical witli tho old Whifi party, which had gone down to its dishonorec gravo. The idea, theroforo, of making the Kepublican party tho inötrumont of self-purificatiou ia not ouly morally, but logically, absurd. A party once thorougbly corrupt haa lost tho power to reform it-ielf. Dovila aro not iaclined to cast out devils, and could ecarcely be trustcd with the business if tliey shoukl offer their services ; and it is because I entertain these views and eau not escapo their force, that I siucerely desire to seo the macbinery of t'ie Republicau party battered iuto fragmenta, aud tlio way thus oponed for a rt)-forinat:on of purties ou tho living questions of the hour, unembarrassed by tho memories of the past. TUK POWEB OF ONE MAN - THE CHABACTEB AND TKAITS OF GOV. 1IAYES. But let mo not ba misunderatood. I dewiro to meet the quebtioa I am conaidering in its complete lepgtn and breadth. I do not deny the exceptional power of one airong man, thoroughly in earnest. and thoroughly armed with tho courage of his opioioiia. Aaiugle, groat-lieaited, strong-willcd character may control a mob or quell a mutiny. With a í'ertile brain, perfect OOOTBge, Etbsolate devotion to duty, aud a geuins for the work of reform, he may cattor renovating ideas, redeem a Stato from misrule, and radically cliauge the faco of society. The couutry bas aeow what one man cuu do in tho stamping out of the Tamniany and canal ringa of Now York. If a man ni) larger thau Gen. (Iriuit eau, in a few yeara, diag down iuto disgrace a gritnd aud power rul party, a really groat man, with rare forco of cliaractor, passionateiy wedded to hia work, and dosperately resolved to submit to no dofeat, might so inspire the people with his own spirit of courage aud faith that a revolution in the admiuiatration of public aif&ira would be tho reaulfc. It is folly and nonseuso to protend that Gov. Hayes ia aiich a man. NBtthêr in Congress, )ior as Goveruor of Ohio, nor in hie military service, lias ho given tho least ovidouce of such remarkable traite of character. In 1872, whon the ferment of reform was tliroatening to rcud the old partios, and so many Republicana were turning away from Grantiam in disgust, Gov. Uayea kept tho ju.otnd oven tonor ot liia ways, uttering no robuke and givinff no rtigu of diacontout with the reiguing orilcr of things. Duiing tlie paat four yoai-s of maladinimstration and j)arty cormption no word haa escaped his lips co show that he symp.ithizcd witli the mou who havo demandad reform. If at any timo he has discovered tho demoralizing and downward teudencies of the administration, and feit tho neceasity of bravely withstanding them, he has never told the public of the fact. He haa given the country no guarantoe, save his lotter of accoptanco, either by word or dood, that he will manfully wroatlo with the political rings that aro laboring for bis election, The country ia without any proof at all that he possesses ' ' the moral oourago and sturdy rosolution to grapplo witli abuses which have acqnirod tho atrongth of ostablished custom, and to this end lirmly reeist the pressure of his party frienda." He has not in any way oarncd the " fear and hatredof thieves." The Bonton AilnrliH.i-, ono of the leading organs of Republicanism in Now England, and now bis warm supporter, said of him isHt yoar that "ho is a man of fair ability, correct iu bis personal habita, bonoat, aound in the Ropublican faith. but without much forco or indopondenco." Thia ia tho exact truth. ParkeGodwiu is porfoctly right in aaying that ho was nominatod bocauHO it was boiioved ' ' hia noutrality of tint would harmonizo the most pronounoM colors." Ho was nomiuated by a contention contuiniug a majority bo favored Blaino, notwitli.itanding hia remarkable record aa a reformor, and who was only defeatod by a blunder of his frieuds. tiia total strengdi in tho convontion, n the absence of combiuatious, was only sixty-eight votes. Bristow, tho only candidato who hart au unmistakablo record as a reformer, roceivod ouly 126 "votea out of tho 756, while üov. Hayes was nonünated at tho instance of a political trndcr from l'omisyivaiiia, who BeJdom bhiudera in his party movomentg. Goutlfmeo, I ijo not nttor a eOBjeOtru, bnt exroH8apeifft ut Lot, wbeo I wy thit. vo and ufliiential friouds, aud the servaiitof that miachivous party inacbinery againBt which he ha uever yot made any public proflat; Tlint I a"1 riyht in foial Mand ready to wove by the mitocrat of the liapnblica!) 11 Indiana, whoso teatimony will be accepted as conclusivo, "ïho adminiatration of any preBident, " saya our distiuguished Senator, ■' 111 bO In Ih9 m&in wliat tho party which electod hiiri mititoA it; If ho breafca away trónl . Jii,.. party, thb eLiluc.eá aré tiiat io will lie Ijrokón doVj). fü a Ooveïnftt.ejit ,qt larties lilte oilirs, the President iíHist cave hia Triendg. The men to whom he owes his elec;ion, who havo defended him froai atisaults, lo whom he muat look for support in the future, will ordinarily control his actions, and he will do nothing offensive to them." This is the naked truth, from tho highest Republican authority ; and if it doos not per f ectly apply to Gov. Hayes it can havo no application whatever to any inan who ever bas boen or ever will be Presidont. Let me aak yon---iliid 1 now addreSa invelf t+Vre eapeHstlly to iuy ola fiepitblidiin friends- let me ask you iL iu yortr hët-rta. yo" really bolieve Qov. Hayes, if elected, wiii e;iforce the priuciples announced in his lotter of accoptanco ? Do yon believe he will turn Secretary Ohamller adrift, tlie cominanderin-chief of tho Ilepublican army iu thia canvas, bqaatttè '(o 's nv sponding hia inouey, levying contributiouH upon úín i'uboritiuaies, ?n3,p'ostitutïng the whole power of hU ofiico in tlie lïterest of a Ropnbhcan victory ? Do you believe ho wil! dismisa Secretary Cameron, who lod tho way in his nomination at Cincinnati, and whodo' activo partiaau service of Qov. ITayc n ia a groas violation of bis declared principies as to the uBe of t'ie ciril service. Wi)l ho do so. docent And comely a thing fis to dismiss Jamc.'j H. Tvner fiom tb' Postoftce Depaftr ment, placod there at the biddinj; of Ëoimio. Horton, for the purposo of securing kis .official help iu this canvaas, which he ia giviug freoly ? Will he put back In the treaaury Briatow, and Bluford Wileon, and l'ratt and Yaryan, and thus invite the boatility of Gen. Graut and his powerful body of frionds, and iníur tho tvrath öf th". whol) armr of his!ty thieves' Will he 8weep out the leglons of piacemon %vho are now abuaing tho public service, and ñll their places with men aelocted solely on the grouud of thoir fitness, and with no foforence whatever to politica? Will he nial'o it perf?ct!y miderntoq'l that Renators and Itepresentativos shall no longer bo consulted iu the diapehsatiou of Federal patronage ? To every one of these questions thö Senator gives the answer, No, and you all undoratand as well as I do that the orthodox Republicans of Indiana are not tho men to diffcr with. him iu opinión i i II 1 BüffdBTÖÏ lILÍJüij - ÏEtÉ IlAS, And hof e, at length, I roach my final question iuvoling the proprioty and honeaty of a Vóte for Tilden aud llendricks. It muat bo cjuite app'arent that whát I have said hfts considerably smoothed the way tü the anewer j for if the Repnblican party is sq hopelessly demoralized that ita reform is impoaeible, ita destruction becomes a public duty; and whoever so regarda it has a rigut to lay hold of the ouly woapon which can now bo cmployed for the puipose with any hope of sneeess. But I do not rest the cnae upon thia point. 1 p'ropose to deal with tiio (uestidu aa iln indtpen!ent topic, and iu approaching it I already imagine some of my Uepublican friends mentally aákliig tlie (Jueation rrhich bas already been proponudct to me several tifües in roída: IIow can an old auti-slavery man, who fought the Demoerats ao zealously in the early days of Abolitionism, and poured out npon them your deuunciations so remorsely during the war - how can you reconcilo it to yourrelf to support such men as Tilden and Uoudiicks? Wcll, geutlemon, I have understooá iu different ways, and have for yoara belioved it to b3 a fact, that tho war íb ovor. According to my almanae, tho iat gun was flred üboiit elefenand A half j"ears ago. so thRt we are uow well along in the twolfth year of peace. Senator Morton, in common with a number of his brethron, loos not know thia. I presnme ho will go down to bis grave in the full belief that the " boys in blue and the boys in gray " are still fighting. At all events ho will luig the fond thought to his bosom that tlie peoplé of thö Korth and the psople of the South ought to feol toward each otlior, now and hereafter, exacUy as they did during the bloody conflict. Witli such men I have no controversy. They are given over to their njadness, and it dehss all remedies. But I aek all men wüo love their coi'ntry and re ab'e to perform the operation of thinking, why the sublect of oar late war should be dragged into this canvass : It was a bloody and devaatating conflict botween citizena and States that had lived together in peace under a common flag, and whose union heroafter is their manife3t deatiny. Why should auy patriotic man seek to keep alive its memorie3 ? Let tliom fade away into tho reoeding paat, and the old bond of union be renowed and cemonted by the rivalrios of a common brotherhood for tho commoii weal. Our civil war has taken ita place in tho paat. It bas gone before the judgment eat of history, like the lloxican war, tho war of 1812, or tho war of independence ; and there ia no more proprioty in discussing it in the pending campaign than there would be in overhauling the antediluvians. Tliere is even less propriety, for we could talk about those ancient wars without tho least danger of reküidling oíd auimosities. Wheu onr civil war waa upon ua, and the questions wliich have since been so grandly settled on the slde of the Uuion. hung inperilona dispnte, I gave utterance to som e strong words which I have no desire to recall. If you can set back the olock of our politica and re-enact the circumstauces in which I was placed, I will reitérate them. I tried to breathe into tho he&rta of the people the spirit of war, and ao to iufiuencG public opinión aa to promote the triumph of our arma and the juat aettlement of the great issue then on trial. But why shoald I repoat my oia war speeobea in thia canvasa ? Why should Seuater Morton repeat hia? How loug are the political waters to bo troubled by gracoless domagogues who so love tho honors aud emoluiuonts of office that they are willing to clutch at them at the expense of the nation's peace ? TUE SOUTH IN THIS CANVASS. But will the South be safe under the administration of Tilden ? Can the freedmon safely bo committed to the guardianohip of the old alave maaiers. I auswer this questiou in the languago of the ableat political journal in the United otates, and a supporter of Gov. Hayos : "Our qwu solemn belief i thattlic lees said on this poiut on tho Kepublicau sido the botter ; that the outrago argument serves and can serve the purpose of nobody in this canvasa but the Iiopublican knaves, and that the probabilitioa aro that the South will be more peacoful under Tilden than under Hayes, and tbis for reasons which he on tho surface. Tilden ia not a woak or fooiish man. He will havo no motive for tolerating disorders at the South, nor will his leading followers. Oa the contrary, thoy will percoivo clearly the importance of tranquility ín that región, to tho stability of their hold on power in tho North, while these disorders will actnally conatituto noarly the Fhole political capital of the Republicana - Conklings, Hortons, Chandlers and Cornell, with wlioso Hup]ort Hayea is, it sooms, to bo saddled." Tho trnth of tliis ia patent to every man'a unbiaaed commou aenae. The great need of tho South to-day is deliveranco from tho horde of thieves and demagogues who have been faatened liko leechea upon the welfare of the peoplo, and bftckod in I heir miadeeds by the wholo power of the tulminist ration. The Hamburg massacre and kindrod displays of rapiñe and lawlessneaa admit of no defenae, whatever the provocations may havo boon ; hut it is neodlesa to deny that thoro havo been provccations, and that thero aro two' sides to the outrage controveray. Tako tho case of Alabama. Tho wholo Federal patronags of tho State and the ubo of tho United Statea army were turnod over to George E. Spencer, a thorouguly corrupt and unpriucipled political adveuturer, to enable him to rétiiiti hia seat in the Unitod StaUa Senate. Tima cquipped for his work, ho aud his friends bonght legislatura and Federal appoinN ments ; sent Marshals and revenuo oüiceis, accompamed by rogular tioops, to run off votors from the countiea where tlie opposition to him waa atrongest ; prostituted tho courta by arresting Democratie meinbera of the Legislatnre in order to prevent a quorum ; used the machinory of tlio Cmtom House and reveuue oflicos in breiking up the General Assembly aud gettiag up two rival bodieB, while the money to ))ay for these extraordinary performances was obtained by embezzlemont from tho poatoflico at Mobile. In the light of these faots it ia not aurpriaing tbat tho State is now overwhelmingly Democratie, while tho gratifyiug fact greote us that oidor has gradually asaerted itaelf throughout the State as tiio power of the plunderers ha decliued. Look at tue State of Missisaippi. In Vicksburg tho whites ]aid 9!) per cent. of the taxes, and tho nogroes asaessed aud haudlod the monoy. As a conaequence tho dbt of the city, which in 1869 was 813,000, roBe in five years to $1. 400,000, whüe the population was ouly 11,000, and mere than half the inhabitants were coloree!. A ling, compoaud of carpot-ba advonturera and ignorant black men of tho most corrupt character, controllod tho execudve offices and oonrts, aud grow rich by forgery and fraud. These ringH woro BHstaiued by tho whole power of tho Iiopublican admiuistraüon at Washington. Tho State of South Carolina auppliea ua with facts equally startling, I cauiiot go into tho dotailH, but they are knonn to tlio couutry. It is ouly ueecssary to ay that after tho 'State had boen pluudered and devastatecl y tho black aud whito scoundrels who so long controllcd her fortunes, and Gov. Chamberlain had auccecded in inauguratiug tho work of reform, the ropreaontatives of the Federal adminintration domonatrated their friendflbip for organized rascality and ruftianism by accn'iiiiï Gov. Cliamberlaiy of leaniug toward Uemoeraoy, and condemniug him for rofuaing commissions to auch political reprobatcs as Wliipple and lloae. Can any man foei mirprised that outrages should spring ont of fuch asojlP Can men oxpoct to how the wind and not reap the whirlwind ? No Chrisüan or even pmlinea man will defend the deodi of ae thtdiigrc8ïoniai ■ ihcBonth, I nor oan ba defend tlie' politiza) san moral ; ontne tiist '(ve beiii nw ffpiw tion. What is the remody ? Shall wo madly seok it in a continuation of Gr&ntiBm, and the rule of siich men as Casey, Packard, Durell, Kellogg, Amc, Whipplo and Moses ? Can thï elefltion of auother RepubHcan president briüg oMöi an1 poae and holieatgovornment to the aorelj trieú pooide of Ui Suutu, black or wliite ? Wo havn had a Keputilicau ''resident and a Kepublican Congreaa for nearly eight years, and yet the chiefs of the party, who represent the South as in a perfectly deplorable Sonditiolii teil us tbat the coutinuance o' tfie SaStptiStt in p'ower is abaolutely neoesHary for tiio welfare of thëpSopUj and eapeciuíly the colorod race. Prttudént öritot lji'isolf tells us that " Mississippi is governeü to; day bv officials chosen throuiih rraud and violeneo, such as would scarcely be accreditod to savages, much laa"! to civilized and Chrietiau peoplo f and Senator JÍoftor's Patease Committoo, with Senator Boutwell at il n I.orrd, 'loclares in ita late Congressional report that tho State, whioh last year was in a condition of peaUe, ia ño so given over to incurable anarchy, after it teil years' trinl of llopublioau reconstrúcíion, 'liat w,e tnai be obliged to retaand it to Territorial go v eminent' font lemen, could there posaibly be a etronger argument rt aror of a change of adminiatration ? Could any fact stand out more palpably on the background of the pafit than the absolute necd of f, ne an'l wiser polioy, and new andwiaermen tb í"driníStet it t The retwlt of Republicau rule, in f.ioi, hüi been' to„arr.ray the twprsee et the South in deadly hoitl'ity; nsteap of Jnakj ing thom friends and brothren. IÜ thó Sta"} containirjg the largest negro element, and under Republicau rule, violence and disorder havo largely prevailed aince the close of the wal ; pililo hl the conservativo anJ Demcfcratife Stttteffij order and peaOo ha been tho normal Sondltiottof the. people. What wo now want ;s & new dispenaatión, &hich hall b'ot out the color lino in politics, softoüaild sooauS the antagonisme ao long f oatered by white domagogues, divido the colored vote botween the partiea of tho South aa the white vote ia already divided. and thus make the peoplc of the States latelt in revolt in deed and in heart one pbofi'i. A'l this, of cHurse, must be thework of time ; but tho ajcorioíeí an bé1 wïboIJ; set to work which will accomphsh it, and thri.H ';or fectly solve tho problom of arentored Union by removin? all the cauaee of trife. TlIiBKN AS A BEFORJIEB. Citt th1 q"esMon ia iutked. "Is Gov. Tilden a genuino reformer Woiild he prpv himaelf morally traatworthy in the high oilioo tq Iii'li he aspires ?" The ïlepublicau leadera inawür the question with a very indignant negativo. Tbev mako tho gravoat of chargea, both against liia foyalty and bis integrity, and they attempt to avtsWüi thom by very remarkable proofs. l'crcxi'mplc. '.hoy introduce the tcstimony of tho New York TinUñ and öthei." .louriiils, which flitly give the lie to their current calriaujiec by tlioir statements four or iiyo yeara ago, whon Gov. Tildón was making his magnifioent flght agairist Tsmmany. Do the Republican leaüers beheve they can cciívi'H: him.pí the frightful Crimea with whieh they charge iúiE t'n tbB.evidence of impoached witneeses? ïney alao attempt to mako out their case on the teatimony of Democratie newapapera which abuaea Gov. Tilden before his nomination, when he Was llkoly to be in the way of their favorito fandidate, whilo these same newspapèrs are nott ïiealoiisly supporting llim, aod tlius practically confessing Ülat tho? did riot speak the tnith in the fierce diatribes they had tittered prpvious to the St. Louis Convenüon. Giv. IJaii-iaon. the other day, in Mis Danvillo speech; show cd lúe nWpreciíttion of tho popular intelligenco by parading thiS atftt of evidenoe and expectiug it to be believed by hia audience. But let On refer vory briefly to aomo of these charges. We are told by the Kepublican authoiitios that Gov. Tilden ia a seceesioniat. Gen. Harriaon mal:ea this charge as he made it four yeara ago against Horace Greeley) and it is s fivlae now as it was then. II is not only untrue, bitt I am sorry to believe that Geil. Harrison ktiowe it to be oo, T!iíto ÍS a dlfferenbe of opinión amoíig Amerioall stateamen now aa there was Et the beginning of the Government, on the qüeatio'n Of State righta and Federal supremacy. GoY. Tilden, I believe, belongs to the Democratie or Jeffersonian school of statesmen, and of courae rejects the cojistitutional theories M HamUton and the Federalists ; but that he is a aeceasióniat ín tle.8ne of disloyalty to tho national flag, or tliat j(o ÍScwnizosthe right of a State to go out of the Union at ite own swect will, with no power in the natiou to hold it in ita placo, is a pure invention. This is not a matter of opinión but of fact } for when the civil war carne. Gov. Tilden was activoly ön tlie aide of the Uaion, doiug au honorablo part by hia Inínenf a and money in sonding men into the field, aitd èierting himself in holding in check tho disloyal element in his own party, when it tliroateued an organized opposition to the prosecutiou of the wal'. He was alao the friend and adviser of Lincoln. This ia my commentary upon the beautiful mosaic of mingled metaphysics and pottifogging which Gen. Harrieon ao artfully weaves together in the hope of showing the disloyalty of the Democratie candidate in" this campaigu. Another charge is that Gov. Tilden was tho leadiug counsel for the Credit Mobiher, and gave hia opinión in favor of the legality of the scheme. Gov. Tilden is an eminent lawyer, and has had groat experience in the management of railroad cases. It was not atrauge that the Union Pacific Railroad Company should take his counsel as to ita legal right to creato a fiscal agency composcd of a portion of the membors of the company, for the purposo of taking charge of the construction of tho road. As a naked legal question I think it ia agreed amoug lawyera that the compaay had the right. I have not examined the evideuco hi tho case recently, but if Gov. Tilden gavo that opinión as a lawyer, I do not see that it convicts him of any high crime. If he advised the compauy that it had the right, through the machinory called the Credit Mobilior, to rob the treasury of milliona, let the charge bo squarely made, and let the proof be produced. The curious fact is that Republican politicians should allude to this quostion at all. With a single excoption the repreaentative men and eminent Christian statesmen who auctibned off their conscionces to this great Corporation were members of the liepublican party. They gave no opinión as to the legality of the soheme, bnt they prestituted thoir politica! and ollicial influence to tho base greod of gain by personally joining in a gigsutic fraud upon tho national treaaury. Of this fraud Gov. Tilden is not guilty ; aud it seema to me that if tho Kepublican leaders in thia cauvass had taken couueel of their prudenco they would havo etudiously avoided any allusion to a transactiou with whieh thoir party relations are so exceedingly delicate and tender.