The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-23
WASHINGTON LErrER.
The Omce Seekers-The South
erR Question white HAG use
Reception.


The Omce Seekers-The South
erR Question white HAG use
Reception.
WASHINGTON, ID. C(
Mar. 10Th, 1877.
The crow ds of hungry Office seek
ers throng the Executive Mansion
daily and have become such a nui-
sance as to compel restrictions up
on their admission. Numbers fore
ed themselves into the presence of
Mrs. Hayes and endeaVored to Sc
cure her ear to their solicitations for
Office. But of course without avail,
and the result has been the issuing
of strict orders of prohibition from
every room but that of the Presi-
dent and his secretaries, and here
every card is rigidly scrutinized to
prevent admission of the mere beg
gar for pitiful Office whose bestow-
al devolves upon some Executive
department.
Messrs. Lamar, Gordon and sew
eral other southern Senators, called
yesterday upon the President to Sc
cure withdrawal of the federal
troops from support of Chamberlain
in South Caroliaa and Packard in
Louisiana, and assured him with
strongest guarantees that no vio-
lence would follow, as the people
would let these authorities die from
lack OF financial support without
necessity of resort to arms to dis
possess them. They deprecated q
new election becauseit would mere
ly continue their financial and po-
litical troubles, while they only
wanted peace aud absolute relief.
Mr.. Hayes did not directly accept
their pledge but every movement
Indicates that he will follow their
suggestions and will allow these
Governors to fall, in so far as up
held by Federal bayOnets. He is
undoubtedly right in this. AS a re-
suit of four years experience after
the war as q Freedman's Bureau
officer in charge of q large district
in southern state, and extensive
travel and observation since in all
the southern states, l am led to say
there is no mode of solving our re-
construction problem save that of
giving the reins Of state govern
ment into the hands of the tax pay
ers who are the whites. Brains on
ly rule in a free country, and as
these preponderate with the whites,
the negro, unless supported by
troops, must necessarily take an in :
ferior position. But as it is i'm
practicable, as well as inexpedient,
to keep him in power by federal
arms he should bs left to rise or
fall by his own inherent forces.
There IS not the slightest cause for
apprehension of wholesale murder,
should he be left TO their own re-
sources. Of tEis 1 am perfectly sat
isfied, hence l can but commend
that action of the President which
looks to withdrawal of federal in
reference in southern state affairs.
Every lSenator, without regard to
party, has called upon the Presi-
dent to pay his respects or to inter-
cede for some Office seeker and the
300 vacant offices, which require
executive action prior to the Sen
ate adjournment, have occupied his
attention to the exclusion, nearly,
of every other matter. Beyond in
terViews with Senators and Con-
gressmen he has little time for the
public and will not tackle directly
with the reconstruction muddle till
after the adjournment of the Senate,
which under the desire to leave
southern matters alone till next
winter, will doubtless adjourn early
next week.
Mrs. Hayes continues her recep-
ton, though the one given to the
ladies on Saturday last was stten-
ded so universally that the jam and
crowd induced thereby seemed to
have satisfied for the present many
thousands who now remain at home
leaving the White House compare
lively free from the usual tbrong of
pleasure seekers. JUEIUs.