The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15
HAYES AND TRB soUTH-wHO
WILL DARE APPLAUD!

Hayes, too, has ''put his foot down"
1t may not be that of Big Foot Wal
lace, but it will stick, we are told.
Meanwhile, we would have that portion
Of the Southern people and press that
loves the South and the country more
than it loves party to stand by the
president. II he have the courage to
serve the South and do us justice, we
are pitiful towards who dare not com
mend wise and rightful tcts because
done by a man who was not nominated
at st. Louis by the simon pure De-
mocracy. Parties and party leaders
signify nothing if, when States are fet-
tered and people enslaved, statesman
and patriot appear who rises above
party and popular and sectional pas
sIons and proposes to observe and ex-
ecute his oath of Office and the coun-
try's organic law rather than his party
platform. We modest, humble citI-
zens of a great republic can surely af-
ford, in case like this, to sacrifice our
little vanities and selfshness and parti-
sanship and approve the deeds and
words Of true greatness and patriotism.
Blaine and Morton have begun again
the process employed to overthrow
Andrew johnson, and in Hayes these
violent and dangerous revolutionary
leaders of the Senate will encounter as
sturdy foeman as once in the hurly
East Tennesseean, whose unmarked,
unhonored grave contains the ashes of
as devout patriot as ever expounded
q country's laws or sought to reproduce
the perfect purity Of republican gov
ernment. Andrew Johnson was beaten
and his purposes thwarted, but
Hayes will triumph. Time has soothed
and concealed with the turf that car
pets Johnson's unhonored grave, pas
sions that enabled Butler, Blaine and
Morton to strike down and entoa b the
rude, passionate, earnest Tennesseean
and Hayes will triumph because John
son fell.
1t is not expected, of course, that
the "whoop-de-dOodle" chivalry of the
South or the purely rhetorical politi-
clans and party leaders would assert
approval of Hayes's conduct. These
people are accustomed to lead the un-
thinking mob and use them and vote
them and win office through them. To
applaud Hayes, these good patriots
think, would be to disband the party,
and the people might absolutely learn
to think and act for themselves, and
infinite mischief would result to place
seekers. None of this class can afford
to commend the conduct of the Presi-
dent, and therefore he will have two
classes of enemies, the one led by
Blaine and the poxed Mirabeau of the
Senate, and the other by the violent
Southern party leaders of 1S60-61.
The two classes of extremists cooper
ated then and still concur and serve
one another with infinite zeal and ear
nestness and tireless fidelity. Blaine
and Morton would be impotent if their
ceunterparts did not exist in the South,
and we have infinite admiration for the
two blessed classes that defy and de-
nounce and fail to applaud the Presi-
dent.
Blaine is of great ability and force of
character and persistency of purpose,
Morton is endowed by nature with
great intellectual vigor, and Chandler
has money. These men now control q
majority of the Senate. Will they
yield to the dictates of wisdom and pa
triotism and of the President9 Will
the President stand like mountain of
stone in the pathway of these selfish,
am bilious party leaderss They made
the fight for Hayes on their platform
and not upon his, and made him Presi-
dent. Must they be thwarted of their
purpose to perpetuate the reign of car
pet .baggers and of violence and disor-
der in the Southa Everything depends
upon the firmness and courage of Mr..
Hayes, and while he resists and defes
these enemies of the South and of the
whole country, VIC propose to stand by
him who stands between the South and
her direst enemies.