The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-10-31
william Lloyd Garrison, IlIs An.
Client AbOliti0nIst, Comes Down
On the lIrCSi(lent'A Policy.

william LIoyu GhrrtAOn, the An
cIent AbOliiiOnIst, Comes Down
ON the PreSident'S Foley.
NEw YoRK, October 2O.-William
Lloyd Garrison has written aletter to
the New York Tunes, in which he goes
for President Hayes and his Southern
policy in the most energetic fashion. The
letter is over two columns In length. He
says
During my recent visit to great Britain
l was frequently asked, in different parts
OF the Kingdom, what was my opinion.
first, Of the character Of President
H4yes; and secondly, Of his Southern
policy. To these inquiries my answers
we're, that had never met Mr.. Hayes,
and, consequently, had no personal &c.
quaintance with him; but in regard to
the purity and uprightness Of his charac.
ter entertained not doubt; that | was
led to regard his elevation to the Presi.
dency, as against his Democratic com.
pelilOr, as an event OF transcendant i'm.
portance, insured no less by the popular
vote, legitimstely cast, than by the sleclo.
raj Commission; for in accepting his
nomination by the National Republican
Convention, In his inaugural address at
Washington, and when privately inter.
viewed BY colored deputations aud others
after his election, he emPhatic4lIy recog.
nizsd the duty Of the Government 10
guard the righta and interests Of both
races, carefully and equally.
AZ TO his Southern pohcy, | was con-
strained to regard it as totally at vari-
ance With all his iair.spoken words and
pledges "a deplorable betrayal OF a most
sacred trust, discount upon inae1ible
loyalty, and bounty upon rebellious
usurpStion; giving the sheep into the
custody OF the wolves on the insane as
sumption that the latter would lose all
their taste for blood, provided all shep-
herdiy wAtchiulness was Withdrawn;
making a consolidated South wherein the
virtual disiraDchisement Of every colored
citizen would be ruthlessly enforced, and
every white Republican be driven to the
wall, and at the next Presidential election
surrendering the National Government
into the hands Of those who still ostenta-
tiously glory in their rebeIlious uprising
10 destroy it. | further added that I
considered President Hayes to have "lost
his head" being the victim Of au amiable
credulity and hallucination whereby
all power OF moral vision and patriotic
discrimination appeared to have been
lost; and though by no means intending
it. that he wAA sowing dragons teeth in
the supposed interest Of peace and good
will, TO spring up in due time in armed
resistance unto blood.
Since my return home, so far from see.
ing any cause to alter my Judgment as to
what has been or ia likely TO be done un.
der this Administration as pertaining to
the South, l am more deeply convinced
than ever, ii possible, that We are "be-
trayed into the hands OF the Philistiues;"
that the President, however aniable and
well.intentioned, has not those qualities
essential to meeting a crisis like the
present; and that when he talks Of his
"policy" it means this, and only this: :
Absolute surrender to the unrepentant,
merciless, and kaughtily defiant spirit Of
rebeldom, to the exclusion Of the General
Government from any chance Of Consti-
lutional interference in any part Of the
South for the protection Of those whose
rights Of citizenship arc cloven down by
bloody process, and who may venture
to approach the polls only at the peritol
their lives.
See how he stands condemned out OF his
own mouth, This is what he declar
before the country and the world in his
inaugural address: "That moral obIi.
CATION rests upon the National Govern.
ment to employ its Constitutional power
and influence to establish the rights OF the
people it has emancipated, and to protect
them in the enjoyment Of those rights
when they are infringed or assailed, 10
also genersIly admitted" President
Hayes neither doubted, nor had any
cause for doubt, that Chamberlain and
not Wade Hampton, was the rightful
Governor OF South Carolina; that Pack.
ard and not Nichols, was the rightful
Governor Of Louisiana. In Withdrawing
the troops as he did, he knew with abso.
lutte certainty that both Nichols and
Hampton would instantly, by the assist.
ance OF q murderous minority, armed to
the teeth, leap into the high places of
trust and dominate the States. lie knew,
or was iuexcuSabls for not knowing, that
his act would be followed by frantic yells
OF rebel jubilatiOn on the one hand, and
on the other by groaninss unutterable of
the defenseless colored and white loyal.
lists abandoned to their miserable fate.
He knew, or ought to have ioreseen, that
he was closing and bolting the door 10
the admission TO the troops thus with
drawn, in any emergency, seeing that he
had rendered 1t impossible for loyalty
again 10 come to the front, whether in an
executive or legislative form.
Nevertheless, when, soon after his in
auguration. leading colored Republicans
Of South Carolina called upon him 10
have frank interchange Of views, be
assured Them he did not propose to aban-
don the Southern Republicans, for he re.
cogni9sd the necessity Of protection At
present until feeling Of respect for the
rights Of political opponents should be
entertained by the Democrats Of the
South. Suddenly he discovered patent
process to insure this protection. twas
TO withdraw from the loyal population
all moral and physical support, and 10
give absolute supremacy TO their irpla.
cable enemies, who in view Of such ex-
traordinary maguauimlty would certain.
| ly behave themselves, be governed BY the
principles OF justice aud equity toward
those whom they had hitherto brutally
prescribed, cease all intimidation at the
polls and inaugurate political millen.
Mum.
The climax o! President Hayes iucon.
sistency and moral obliquity was reached
in his almostiucrcdibls speech at Atlanta,
Georgia, which ELECTED the widest out.
bursts Oi applause BY a large coucourse
OF the "uureeonstrucied and unserri6ed." !"
Here iswhat he said respecting the trea.
sonable efforts Of the South 10 destroy
the Union ahi establish Southern Con.
tederacy Tor the extension and perpetu.
alton of negro slavery;
"You here mainly Joined the Coufeder.
ate side, and fought brayely-risked your
lives heroically-in behalf Of your con.
vietipns; and can any true man anywhere
fail to respect the man who risks his lie
IfoE bis sonvicsions' Prolonged ap-