The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-09-09
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

has invited GevernQT Hayes to make
him q visit at I4eug Branch. | am
quite sure that such an announcement
will be surprise to the thousands OF
the rank and file of that party, who
have been purposely deceived by
their party organs into the belief that
the President has assumed an attitude
of bitter hostility to the nominee of
the Cincinnati convention, because of
bis views contained in his letter of
acceptance, relative to one term for
the incumbent of the Presidential
chair. As o part of the Confederate
Copperhead programme of tho pres
ent campaign, no opportunity has
been neglected to confirm the belief
that the President cherished the most
bitter feelings of enmity, not only
against General Hayes, but against
every individual member of the Re-
publican party who has honestly diff
fercd with him upon the expediency
of the policy adopted by the admins
tration in any given matter of current
national interest The efforts made
to produce the impression is proof
that the wish was father to the
thought. But it is written that the
, |
hopes of the wicked shall perish and
the evidences of Republican unity,
reaching this point from every section
. of the country the warm espousal OF
: Governor Hayes from the first by
General Grant among them; the en-
thusiastic devotion of the intelligent
:. masses co the cause of liberty, prog
ress and equality, as they march for
ward in solid column to an over
whelming assault upon common
enemy, is welcome assurance that
It all their dark lantern plottings, with
3 their shotgun policy, will bring them
l. an ignominions defeat, and that all
+ the fears and anxieties of patriots,
since the partial restoration of the
rebel Democracy in 1874, will be
!. swallowed up in a Union victory
e that will stand in point of Importance
n beside that of Appomattox, in April,
1865. The tone of intelligence from
every quarter, all justifies such a
n conclusion. The indiscreet followers
of Tilden in the West emphasize the
significance of his candidacy by alter
j nate shouts for him and jeff Davis
Ii the late war is to be fought over in
this campaign; the House of Represen-
us tatives, lately adjourned, and the kn-
Klux leaders of the Democracy have
. themselves to thank for it.
y Another assurance, quite as start
ling and discouraging to abettors Of
at the reformor," may be as positively
given, to the effect that any assistance
= to q free, filir election that can bt
given by the War Department., will
ID not be withheld, its acceptances of the
l. $500 forfeit for every Democrat deter
red from depositiug his ballot by th'
presence of u S. Soldiers at the polls
7 have been received up to date, not
4 witllstanding the doleful bowls pro
% voked By the late order of Secretar,
- Cameron to General Sherman. TIL
revelations of the past six months, il
connection with the every day utter
do ances of the Southern Democrat
81 press, so significant and unmistakabl
~ that " all who run may read" hav
ut deprived the cry of bloody shirt
ue and outrage mill "Of all their ter
ay rors and have convinced many of til
most timid and hating Republicans
nut the absolute need of the interpositio
of the Government to preserve sem
in blance ola republican form of govern
'ep ment in many OF the late lnsurrectlon
err airy States. 1t is the old, old comics
between light and darkness, good an
gn evil, freedom and slavery, snperst
-. ton on the one hand and the emanc
res patton of mind from the malignant e
;? fects ofwitcheraft and priestcraft up0
:. the other; in short it is the life an
~, 10 death struggle that has come down
Is this Centennial year of American il
as dependence through all the ages sine
ny the Lord of Hosts laid the foundatio,
~ of the universe, and is to go on viii
for gradually decreasing violence unit
But the exhaustion of the one and Il
eo, triumph of tile other ut the drawing
m. the millennial era.