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Tt# X itfc«n Lave riddled
Aurxwc Bfcu»un »Lout Lb early Lab
| S a . j fact that Grant jacked
b ar ; s jk» the Sa{ ierne Bench for
parjLesc reversing the lejral-teuder
dev bi >«. A correspondent of the Sche
aev tady (X. Y.) R>jl*tor refers to Re
t B.>ard Job as follows:
1 must Kite you a t nef review or the an
tecedents es the one man who b to deckle
the probable deetiay of this country for
weal »*r we. 1 mean Lu J. BMWiP, oae
«and the Justices of the Supreme Court of
the United Stales. ami the fifteenth, or its
casting vote* in its partisan sense, in the
CUaumsstoa. We kuow him here. He was
bora in tierne. Albany county. He was in
the mescant.ie busine-s at OallupviUe,
Schoharie county, for several years, auti as ■
such merchant is yet fresh in the memory 1
of the older residents of Hurt locality. He
wasauaotskoWYslged sharper. Me finally
closed up ha business for lack of custom
*.s; »ert town for a more congenial clime,
ami left many bill* unpaid, which remain
so until this day. Among others, he was
indebted largely to Viuuu A Cos., of this
psa.v. Ku bov*ts and shvws. fhb firm still
h **d his promise to pay. This Is uow the j
mar the coming ilveis —to lend aud di
rect by his deciding ode the destinies of .
this grvat country ‘ into the paths of pleas-1
natness and pewee.“
The reader will observe that the|
present Jeasitt P. Bradley is referred
to as Fj.a J. BntMJtr. lVrhaps he re
versed his signature like Hu'Fle-
Knouu, the Oregon Senator, and re
raettiberwlithe Arkansiau’s greeting to
a stranger thus: “I say, old fel, vrhat
nrout yer name be?'’ “Jtrwtijw, ’ b
the reply, "Good enough, pard; but
what niout have ben yer uatne before
jer earn to Arkansan, heh Y*
Is There "Treason In the Tainted j
Buell, the Washington correspond
ent of the Sew Orleans IVmomif, tele
graphs as follows:
Weaixs'luit. February :t-I picked up
thb "iouiitig the following note from au
emtneut B**ulheru ldemocrat to one of the .
tewduig m imagers of the* Mayes pro
gramme; inasmuch as it is a succinct and i
accurate survey of the situation 1 transmit
it«ntir-; ......
“Confidential
WU.WVKOS Hotel.
v; v nhtutwi. February 25,15 TANARUS?.
i*v Ct vK - . ! h**reb only one way to
* these*- : ptishrueuit of the Demo
yratre programme. Vou set* they are play
ing as if their hand was weak, whereas
they know exactly what the*y are about.
There is not so much teal discord in their
counsels as the outside world Is glveu to
understand; they will pursue a programme
which wilt have all the practical effect or
filibustering but will avoid the appearance
u! it.
The Senate will probably prevent the
consumption of time* iu reading th** pri»-
iixebiiectikms from South Carolina, but it
urill be necessary to defeat their ithe lh*m
ocratal linn of objections in the* House, one
by one as they bring them up. or the count
cannot m*ssibiy be concluded before mid
night sSturday. They have the hours
counted and the thing cooked td a nicety,
so that while appearing to goon with the
count they wiU still be able to obstruct it
enough to suit th tr purposes. They even
have* arrangement' made for dilatory mo
tions at different stages of the proceedings
which will be voted down by preconcert
aud with much show of indignation, but iu
reality with a perfect understanding be
tween the 1 mee t's and the opponents of the
dehry.
“The programme Is to produce such a
state of thwgs by Saturday tttat it will be
seen to be* impossible to finish. Then it is
understood that Cosuuixo aud sevou other
Itepub tcau- will bolt the* Senate Kepubil
can caucus and co-operate with the twenty
nine iViuvcrats to prevent Fkjkky from
counting the remaining cedes, pass Field's
bid her anew election, aud elect COKKLINO
Tteaidentcd the Senate pro Inn., aud this
scheme meet-, the approval of Grant, who
wtlt sign the FTELD bill
“Now. the only way to defeat this pro
gramme is by gettiug H—n aud hts thirty
followers iu the House to stand squarely
with the Republicans. w>te against every
one of t e five vdqectiona which have been
arranged Tu. aud vote against recess iu
the South tVotbn oas**. A word to the
wise, Flease destroy us soon as read.
Tours truly .“
Os course this letter was written for the
private information of a Republican luan
ager by a tVrtL*oratte g*'ntleuie.u who
Wish *s to make himself solid with the new
deal. 1. -a wry interesting letter, aud l
may eventually make it more interesting
om* v*r two wore geulieuo'u at least
than it is t ew.
The b- uth appears to have eotue out
better than .uty other section iu conse
quence of the tergiversations of the
High tVI Joint. The Albany Argus
Swttn the fellows iu this wise: “In its
desperation to steal the Presidency,
the Republican party gives its sanction
to the vety heresy upou which seces
sion was founded. In it* frenzy it re
vives and gives irresistible potency
to the very heresy it declared a few
months sieve had been stamped out
forever, under the heels of an artny of
atcidionof tuee. Hmbs and the toe’s
he used to transgress the laws of Flor
ida isl destroy the ballot-boxes of
L.spsiaaa. Lave bee a sufficiently pow
erful to estabiisfc. a "heresy which not
a£ tfee a:sue- of the Confederacy could
wtiatain 1 HvißswUibec'metheeecond
FT*-*-. lent of the C -f. Inate State* of
Amenta ; th* law I-- - - - r fJ* * -
-
D» 1 * ; Z/3T ,f*-.f 11 *«*"',»!.'* the
B*a* j* _ . e .
llaye ' Cabinet.
T. ■ N . i .r. fli .-t • :■■-
«>?•**: it Hayes’ Cabinet will be full,
alls : “If there was any anxiety iu
any quarter i-st there woul l uoi be
, found in the c uutry men capable of
' filling and '.Tilling to till all the places
} that anxiety is now happily dispelled,
j for a targe number of the distinguished
men who ‘made’ Haves are coming to
the rescue. Naturally they cannot per
jjnit that their handiwork shall prove a
’ failure for want of a little more per-
I sonal devotion on their part. The dis
tinguished Mr. Bliskismught will be
‘ Secretary of State. He was present ut ;
; the Cincinnati Convention, where he
! perceived at a critical moment that
i Mr. Hayfs was about to be nominated,
i He immediately went over to Haves
with his whole delegation, and thus
1 determined the result. Mr. Bothek
! box, who has hitherto occupied several
important offices, will accept the Treas
ury as a small recognition of his serv
ices iu having carried the news to Co- (
iumbus that the nomination was actu- ;
ally made. Mr. Latherem will be the ;
Secretary of War. Ho secured the ;
nomination of Hayes at Cincinnati by
defeating the nomination of Blaine. !
Blaine would have beeu nominated on
the night of the first day that ballots !
were taken, but Latuekem had the gas |
cut off aud bought up all the candles
iu Ohio, so that they had to adjourn.
All the other places will be given to
uitn equally famous for the fact that
each oue was the real author of the
nomination of Hayes.”
There is one marked difference be
tween this campaign and all others
since the war, and that is the silence
of Sam Bard; but wo do not despair of
hearing from him before long.
Miss Dancer’s Bequest.
Miss Dancer, the daughter of a no
ted gambler, left several hundred
thousand dollars to charities iu various
Churches. They all received the mon
ey, as was no doubt very proper, as
Miss Dancer was a good woman.
Some of the reasons giveu for not re
jecting what some people consider ill
gotten gains were as follows :
The President of the Bible Society
said ;
The money would be used to supply Bi
bles free of cost to the poor, and these Bi
bles tuijjht even reach Ramblers, and thus
that very eltss >f persons might bo bene
fitted by this good uso of the property
which a gambler was said to have amassed.
The pastor of the Church attended
by Miss Dancer said :
Half the money we get, you know, may
have come through liquor stores and gam
bling dens. Besides, what is considered
gambling by some persons is regarded
otherwise by a different class. Some per
sons think stock gambling is not wrong,
aud so some stock gamblers rank In the
highest society. If we didn’t take this
; money, what would become of it? By us
ing it for good purposes, wo come as near
as wo ouu to making reparation.
'lihe President of the Children’s Aid
Society was more outspoken, and phil
osophically said :
■She was a good woman. Her father, 1
am informed, before lie died became a
good man, and her mother was a good wo
man. If all the gamblers iu the city should
become good meu, and their wives and
aud daughters good women, aud should
give their money for charitable purposes,
I think it would be a. v< ry good thing for
the city. No, I don’t think the money
should b« refused.
The New York Express thinks that
the precedent has been established, if
it did not always exist, that pious folks
will be considerate of the faults of
! others, aud that a gambler’s money is
quite as good as anybody else’s, whou
itTI devoted to charity.
Judge Black must have been put
forward by the Democrats to “stir up
the animate.” A correspondent says:
“His remarks often savored so
strongly of direct insult to the Tri
bunal it was expected every moment
the presiding officer would cheek him;
but they all sat silent, vainly endeav
oring to conceal their anger at the
bold charges aud severe sarcasm of
the speaker. Morton relieved himself
jby pretending to write, but i noticed
jhe did not pen u dozen iiues. Hoar
sat pale and uetvous, bis lips moving
las if muUeriug to himself. Bradley
: looked away over the heads of tLe
i people, while Mu.lki; and Strong
jed the speaker square iu the face.”
I The same correspondent adds: “Some
| difficulty was experienced in conccct
■ iug a report which would fit
I even the elastic consciences of
the subservient eight, but at last
I Miller began to read an elaborate
| argument which purported to be such
report. Payne blandly suggested that
Justice Miller was arguing the case
ather than giviug considerations for
the vote. replied that he did
not know that it made much difference
to Payne whether it was long or short,
;ts he wouldn’t prooablv vote for it any
way. Payne quietly retorted that he
most certainly would not, for he pro
posod to wash his hands of all the vil
-1 taiuy and infamy which the majority
were affirming. Mili kk flushed, but
continued reading to the end; when
IV, put in a parting -h ■! by remark
tt.g t > Klm; >i>* that as Milleii had
ma l** •h** only arguin' lT In the care,
th.* Ha**- managers, if they had set
a*;d*» any arL*unt f r c 'it.etl fe*s,
ought to janue to (ay the fee in thl*
a**- ' Mii.Li.fc rather th..u t • ai.*-!.”
The Ele. 'u.u iu llie Ninth
lbe Democratic Congressional
vention f r the Ninth District of this
State, yesterday nominated the Hon.
H. P. Bell, of Forsyth county, as a
candidate to fill the unexpired term
occasioned by the election of Benjamin
H. Hill to the United States Senate.
Mr. Bell was a valuable member of
the Forty-third Congress, but not a
candidate Tor the Forty-fourth. We
are confident that the Democrats of
Northeastern Georgia will turn out
upon the day of election, and give Mr.
Bell a rousing majority.
A Late Remorse.
The New York Times, of the 25th of
February, contained the following edi
torial confession : “If the country is
not menaced with the perils of a fresh
coutest for the Presidency, the circum
stance is attributable to the honorable
interpretation of an implied pledge,
, and the patriotic superiority to the
: base arts of partisanship which have
; distinguished many of the Southern
; Democrats.” To whicli the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican, an independent and
honest paper, which supported Hayes,
vigorously retorts : “Exactly so. But
what havoc it would have wrought in
tlio editorials of the Times and in the
conduct of the whole campaign to have
recognized the fact of a possible patri
otic Southern Democracy, a few months
ago! Little, indeed, would have been
est of the chief war cries of the Re
publican stump orators and editors,
liad the fact now so tardily acknowl
edged been recognized. We should
have been saved all Mr. Blaine’s in
cendiary speeches last winter, and all
his fiery harangues of last summer.
Mr. Wheeler would not have been
obliged to telHlie people of Northern
Vermont that the battle of Gettysburg
was still in progress ; nor would the
general screech of peril at the awful
villainy of those Southern Democrats
have rung all over the North. Pecu
liarly deprivatory of material for many
a long editorial in the Times, descrip
tive of the disiistrous consequences of
any tru.-m in the South, would have
been the least glimmer of the truth
that such a possible creature as a
patriotic Democrat could there exist.
“Yet the existence of such a crea
ture, and of multitudes of them, is not
one whit more evident, to-day, than it
has been for years. For years the
South has been petitioning to be trust
ed. For years the Democratic and in
dependent press lias been asserting
that it was worthy to be trusted. But
fir years, also, the main enterprise of
Northern politics has been ‘keeping
down the South.’
“And now, when the South has been
juggled out of its fair voice in our
Presidential contest by a Government
run in the interest of Northern sec
tionalism and prejudice; now, when one
State certainly and two probably have
been 'counted out’ of their electoral
T.ites, what is it we are invited by the
Tones to see Aud what is it that the
country will see, invited or not? Why
precisely this fact so persistently de
nied, that many of the best and most
conspicuous leaders of the South are
loyal, conservative and patriotic.
“Nothing could better demonstrate
the untruthfulness of the whole method
of the Republican campaign than the
acknowledgment the Times makes. It
stultifies itself aud its whole course for
years. Conspicuous beyond auythiog
But absolute political blindness is the
evidence given iu the course of the
leading Southern Democrats towaid
the partisan action of the Electoral
Commission, that they are wise and pa
triotic men, and ought to have their
place aud voice in our public counsels.
But what a saving of type and paper,
of voice aud lungs, of vituperation and
lying would have been the recognition
of this fact, ouly a little while ago !”
We have preferred to give conspicu
ously and at length the Republican's
answer to the Times, in lieu of any
thing we might more passionately
write from an extreme Southern staud
p ini. it may however bo added that
a Pie.-ident \vh > has secured his tide
by lies and frauds need not so confi
de,uly call upon Almighty Go to blot ■
him and his career. Solely indeed dots
Mr. Hayes need divine aid, but we have
uever yet heard of the forgiveness of a
chief sinner who Pharisaically claims
purity himself and yet refuses to restore
ill-gotten goods, it is rank blasphemy
for a man to appeal to Heaven for en
dorsement aud help under such circum
stances, and the shock to public mor
als Is all the more terrible iu the mouth
of a politician who is held up as the
incarnation of all the virtues. What
doth it profit him that he uses no
tobacco or wiue; that he frequents not
the haunts of infamy; that vulgar pro
fanity soils not his lips; if, at the same
time, he is the principal partaker in an
unholy spoil begotten of knavery, for
the profit of knaves, and urged to a
successful issue by an admittedly uien
dacious press ?
It may he that Mr. Hails, even at
the tipcuie of :.elf-st(iltifl tition, sill
sti!v< t * and i much ,*f the injury that
has Uen « v utpiteh'd. It may be
Ihut S 'Uth LV liiou au I LouUiuna will
be permitted to tight Th'-Uiselves, now
that he has received i is bb>od-tnoney
1 and bis attainted position. It may be |
, that all arts of venality will be put in
requi-i ion to corrupt or placate needy
or unscrupulous Southern men. All of
I these things may be done, and yet the ]
; waters of the salt sea and the perfumes ’
| of Arabia will uever cleanse aud sweet- j
j ea the record of the first of Presidents j
who reached the White House by rank
• usurpation.
: Immense efforts may be made to
i break down the Democratic party, here
| and elsewhere; men who have been
| faithful in all the tremendous past may
j become faithless; the very foundations
j of the great deep of political and so
; cial existence may be disquieted. But
! the grand party of Constitutional Lib
; erty will not be destroyed. It will rally
| all the more gallantly and resolutely,
j It will not want for incorruptible lead
i ers aud pure oracles, and its day of full
| triumph, though postponed, will
surely come. We commend and
adopt the words of Judge Black,
flung into the very teeth of ii ■■
] Commission: “At present yc.u have ;
lus down and under your feet. Never |
! had you a better right to rejoice. Well i
I in ay you say, ‘We have made a cove- |
| nant with death, and with hell are we :
at. agreement; when the overflowing!
scourge shall pass through, it shall not j
come unto us: for we have made lies I
our refuge, and under falsehood have j
we hid ourselves.’ But nevertheless
wait a little while. The waters of truth
will rise gradually, and slowly but
surely, and then look out for the over
flowing scourge. ‘The refuge of lies
! shall be swept away and the hiding
I place of falsehood shall be uncovered.’
j This mighty and puissant nation will
| yet raise herself up like a strong man
| after sleep and shake her invincible
I locks in a fashion you little think of
now. Wait; retribution will come in
due time. Justice travels with a leaden
heel, but strikes with an iron hand.
God’s mill gtinds slow, but dreadfully
line. Wait till the flood-gate is lifted
and a full head of water comes rush
ing on. Wait, and you will see fine
grinding then.”
Hayes’ foolish speech at Fremont ex
cites the laughter and derision of Dent
ocrats aud the sullen mortification of
Radicals.
The Herald notes the rapid growth
of Free Love in New England aud the
Middle States. Well, how can you ex
pect anything else when the Supreme
Behch has become prostituted ?
——
The new attitude of the Republican
press towards tbe South is compared
by the New York IForltZ to the prom
ises of eternai friendship made by a
drunken sailor to a lamp-post or a
Vassar graduate to her weeping class
matee.
■ * m ——
Hon. Ben Hill was selected as one
of the Democratic objectors in the
South Carolina case, but refused to
serve. Probably he thought the game
was not worth the candle, aud that it
is the supreme of folly to sing psalms
over a dead mule.
Donn Piatt is the luckiest editor in
the world. He got a first-class pull from
Grant, aud now Hayes has doubled the
circulation of tne Capital by exhibiting
the knife its editor had stowed in the
seat of liis pantaloons for the sth of
March assassination. Lucky Donn !
The trouble with the Democratic
submissionibts at Washington seems
to be that they must deliver the goods
now and wait until after March 4th for
their money. Will they get it ? Cer
tainly they will. The Radicals, like
George Washington, may cut us with
their little hatchet, but they never told
a lie. Oh no, not for Joseph.
In his little speech at Fremont, Ohio
Gcveru' T H ayes “realized bis lack of
J special fitness for the duties for the i
i performance of which he might be
called upon; ami placed his trust in
Almighty God, who rules the destinies
of nations.” Just think of a receiver
of stolen goods calling on God Al
mighty to bless him and his theft I It
; is like old Scwarhow's coupling the
names of the Saviour of Mankind and
the Russian Messalina.
The Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun says: “The friends
of Governor Hayes heie are rather ir
ritated ami annoyed at tbe tone of the
speech made by him at Fremont, Ohio,
on Saturday night. They admit that
it was a trifle undignified, but they ex
cuse it by saying that the Governor
had got out iu the backwoods and did
not know that there were any newspa
per men about. This may be, but the
speech does not the less show the cali
bre of the man.” Wait till he gets iu
the seat of Washington and Grant.
Then Donn Piatt will, every Sumlay
m ruing, make him wish he had uever
been born.
■•»-*-
The New Y ik Sun says Grant built
up u ivpiitution for profouud wisdom
wifi n he lid not wholly destroy until
th** very last days “f Id*term, when he
tiegsu to babtite nonsense. Ilvvra be
gins while (ifcAfcr lull's if.
A Little Rill.
The New York Express sums up the
little bills that have been accumulating
fi*r presentation to Mr. Hayes when he
gets into the White House, the biggest
of them being from Grant, the particu
lars of which are as follows:
It. B. Hayea, President.
To the heirs and assigns of Ulysses S.
Grant, Dr., November and December,
before and since eleciion.
Items.
Ist. Loan of the United States Array, sent
South in your interest during six
weeks to intimidate and defeat the
Democratic party,
2d. Loan by Gen. Grant to you or 11.615
marshals and election supervisors, all
acting In your interest on election
day, at $5 per day pay out of the Uni
ted States Treasury.
3J, Loan of Secretary Chandler and the
Treasury to rua the election.
4th. Loan of 100,000 United States Govern
ment place men holdirg their offices
under the President, and detailed for
special duty to secure your election to
the Presidency.
sth. Su> dries to be found in the secret ser-
Vl*.: •
ihe amount in figures is not speci
; lied, but it has assumed gigantic pro
| portions, covering the life interest of
i one of the largest family connections
jon the continent. Eliza Pinkston’s
1 bill will be first audited. She will no
doubt insist upon a snug sum in cash
and the privilege of presiding over the
Kitchen Cabinet.
Hayes’ Policy.
It seems that Mr. Hayes will not
commit himself to any Southern policy
other than may be indicated by his
letter of acceptance, upon which the
Republican campaign was not fought.
We append a notable extract from
his letter:
The moral and material prosperity of
the Southern States can be most effectual
ly advanced bv a hearty and generous
recognition of the rights of all—a recog
nition without reserve or exception. With
such a recognition fully accorded it will be
practicable to promote by the influence of
all legitimate agencies of the general gov
ernment the effort of the people of there
States to obtain for themselvts the bless
ings of honest and capable local govern
ment. If elected, I shall consider it not
only my duty, but it will be my ardent de
sire to labor for the attainment of this
end. Let me assure my countrymen of the
SouUtem States that if 1 shall be charged with
the duty of organizing an administration it
will be one that will regard and cherish the
interests of the while and of the colored peo
ple bath and equally, and which will put forth
its best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which
will wipe out forever the distinction between
North and South in our common country.
We will not comment upon this ex
tract at present. Even to Mr. Hayes
we shall accord the opportunity of
proving how far his performances will
square with his promises.
Well, Mr. Tilden has reason to feel
happier than Hayes. “Cheating luck
never thrives,” they say.
—>i ■
“One Who Knows” says ex-Governor
Brown would accept no office under
Mr. Hayes, and he will make no recom
mendation to him for the appointment
of any one to office under him.
The Atlanta Constitution epitomises,
like a book-keeper, legislative retrench
ment and reform in Georgia:
savings— ,
Funding railroad bonds $25,000
Printing and compiler.. 1,000
fiupt. Public Works 2,0:10
Legislative clerk hire— 3,00 )
Members’ pay 0,000
Insurance perquisites— 1,500
Bui ding fund S,OOO
$40,500
Increased expenses—
M. and N.G. It. K $15,000
Drainage Savannah 35,000
$50,000—550,000
Balance against retrenchment $9,500
The Submissists’ Victory.
We publish elsewhere the final and
decisive vote in the House of Repre
sentatives, last Thursday, which re
sulted in the defeat of the obstruction
! ists by 148 to 116, Democrats to the
number of 45 voting with the Republi
cans. As these proceedings are now
i matters of history, it is as well that the
; actors therein should be placed prorni
-1 ueiitly bes
A Washington correspondent tells the
following good story : Henry Watter
son promised Fernando Wood to sup
port his resolution for impeaching
President Grant, but when the caucus
; uiet and Wood introduced his resolu
' tion, Watterson spoke against it. Wood
j amazed, said : “ Why, Mr. Watterson,
i what does this mean ? You assured me
you would sustain this measure.”
“ Why,” blandly replied the impertur
bable Henry, “ Mr. Wood, that was
twenty-four hours ago!” with which re
-1 ply he seemed to consider the matter
! fully explained. Watterson began his '
Congressional term with 100,000 volun-1
. teers, and ended with a baby which has I
made a good deal more noise than his j
100,000 men.
Paxton, Mass., recently bad a wed
ding at which the bride was 76, aud the 1
btidegrooiu 72.
You may sometimes put a sauce into
i eup, but you should always put a cup 1
iu' ' a saucer. <
* iNi lsnin, M m li:!. The Southern
Hallway y> sti-rday aw mb-! .; eontruct
for the construction of the Tcnie *Hce
river budge i. a Philadelphia party. I
To Subscribers.
Now that the Presidential question
is settled, and we know who Is to be
the President, it by no means follows
that ail interest in Federal, State and
Foreign affairs will cease; but rather
the importance of future legislation
and the course to be pursued by the
new administration at Washington,
will be of more interest to the people
at large than even the late campaign
itself. And at its very beginning we
wish to say to the large number of
readers of the Constitutionalist that
no pains or expense will be spared to
keep its columns up to tne high stand
ard it has heretofore enjoyed as a
first-class newspaper in every respec l
Our terms are within the reach of ail
—six dollars a year for the daily; four
for the tri-weekly and two dollars for
the weekly.
We shall relax nothing in energy and
enterprise, and promise our old friends
and new subscribers that we shall give
them a paper for the year 1877 equal,
in all respects, to any newspaper in
the South Atlantic States.
The encouragement we nre daily re
ceiving from renewals of old subscrib
ers and advances from new friends
warrants us in making the above state
ments, and we take this opportunity of
thanking our friends everywhere for
the support given us in the past and
the promises of the future.
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CURRENT TOPICS.
The Republican party, painted and pow
dered, is easting sheep’s eyes at the South.
“ Aroint thee, witch.”— Baltimore Gazette.
“ I would rather be right than be Presi
dent,” is a sentiment with which Henry
Clay used to be credited. Probably Hayes
has often mouthed it in his boyhood’s days.
— Ni ■ York Sun.
The Democratic party is now in the con
dition of the frog—
“ Who tied himself to a hickory stump,
Aud he cussed and he swore, but ho could
not jump.”
Sam. Bard telegraphs to Washington that
he ask -no favor of Hayes. Sam. is afraid
he will he violently perforated with a post
office, and, if he fails in resisting proposi
tions fiom the new* administration, he
stands erect upon the record.
The South has been so often deceived that
we can hardly venture to say that we may
not be again, even in the promises now held
out to us. But Gen. Grant, the most ob
stinate and persistent man in the land, has
thoroughly tested the despotic system arid
tho rule of the South through ignorance
and dishonesty. He has at last confessed
that it is a failure, and we can hardly sup
pose the new % President will attempt to con
tinue a policy w hich has failed under the
direction of Grant.— Richmond Dispatch.
The old administration lies a-dying and
the new is on the threshold. The Wash
ington Bepublicsn has been the mouth
piece of the old; it seems to have been en
gaged to perform that function for the
new. In a double-leaded leading article it
collects the strong points of the arguments
against federal usurpation in Louisiana
and South Carolina, and makes a stirring
appeal for home rule in those States. This
is the ground that tho Democratic and In
dependent journals have tiken from the
dav that the carpet-baggers, backed by the
whole power of the federal government,
began their unholy rule. The sudden con
version of the Republican is remarkable.
It means something. It is not a sudden
outburst of virtue. It is part of the in
trigue to capture Southern men and deliver
them over to Hayes. -Baltimore Gazette.
What was said of old about “Greeks bear
ing gifts” will probably be said again to
the Southern people by way of admonition
and warning. But if their own experience
has not taught them caution, they will
scarcely be disposed to profit by the advice
of others. Their most trusted leaders
already scout the idea of building up a
Republican party at the South to aid in
perpetuating the power of the Mortons.
Chandlers and Shermans. But purely
visionary as the Hayes “Southern policy,”
as his friends have foreshadowed it, may
turn out to be, it would have at least the
merit of being less law-defying than that
of Grant, and by so much tho country
would hare reason to bo glad of the
change. It would be a great mistake,
nevertheless, for Mr. Hayes to have uny
“Southern policy” aj; all, as contra-distin
guished from an Eastern, Northern or
Western policy’. If"he will leave all the
States free to manage their own affairs
and shape their own destiny, favoring no
one section at the expense of another, he
be will hat e done all that can reasonably
expected of him. The country is getting
heartily tired of so much “policy” and so
little real statesmanship.— Baltimore Sun.
Business stagnation continues and grows
more hopelessly chronic, in view of the
helplessness to which Congress is seem
ingly reduced by the astounding decision
of the Commission. Not all the a surances
of the Republican press that the South
would acquiesce in the destruction of con
stitutional liberty has inspired business
men with confidence. There are no premo
nitions of violence and anarchy. Vet every
man feels that the paralysis of death has
attacked the Republic, and been pro
nounced an incurable disease by the Com
mission. There is no nerve for physical
contest. There is no nerve, either, for busi
ness enterprise. If such things c u be
done as have been consummated in Florida
and Louisiana, and Congress be powerless,
the future of the Republic is dark, and
business despairs. There would be more
hope If there was sufficient vitality to
grapple with the law breakers, and make
them feel tins' the American Republic is
too young to die. But white men sink lan*
guidly back, and do not resist a decision
that Congnss cannot save the Republic
from the huuds of men who violate the
laws ol ntates in their unholy greed f. r
power, i«ow can there be ounUdcnct in Ui<*
future ‘ Albany Argus,