The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-03-22
The Doctrine OF Political Equality for
the Negro Practically Abandoned.

-~'9 The selection and confirmation of the
membeg of Mr.. Hayes Cabinet are
events of the greatest political siguifi.
canoe. 1t is the first time in the history
Of the country that President, accedinn
to power, after an embittered partisan
contest, has at once deserted his suppor.
ters, and gone squareiy and boldly into
the ranks of the opposition for one of the
heads OF the departments. Yet from all
sides MIR. Hayes receives assurances that
this unexampled proceeding is approved
and that it chimes In with the popular
sentiment of the hour.
Why? What produces such an anon.
alous condition OF affairs7
Il all grows out Of the contest of races
in the South. Sixteen years ago, when
abraham Lincoln entered upon the duties
OF President, che way to the capital was
always so enyironed with danger that he
did not deem it prudent to travel openly
through the city of Baltimore. Swiftly
followed the terrible war of the rebellion,
though slowly and long it dragged out its
sanguinary length. The Shareholders nj
hmately surrendered, and nominal peace
ensued. The blacks were not only made
free, but amendments were added to the
constitution, and a series of laws were
enacted by Congress, for their especisl
protection and benefit. With only par.
tial and embarrassed exception under
Andrew. Johnson, the national Guvefn-
.ment has since then been ateadily ad.
ministered, in the Southern States, in
harmony with the desires of the emanci.
pated race. If Mr. Hayes ia President
to-day. he is President by the use of
black votes and by the support of those
whose only political strength has arisen
fiom their alliance and Identification with
the colored race.
Yet; notwithstanding all these fact, Mr..
Hayes, at the very beginning of his ad-
intimidation. doe3 idree things which
write the word White all over his policy,
and Indicate that he intends TO erase the
word Black, forever, as o potent influence
in our national politics, e
1. He does not appoint any black man,
or mulatto, to his Cabinet. he, prefers
Carl Schurg, o foreigner, to Frederick
Douglass, an abler and more eloquent
man, end native l:s2r:..z 4s.he oiii7 advasi-
tage of Schurz consisting in his COM
plexion.i 2 kH,'s2-s..3HT
!, II. He,refiises to appoint any, Repub-
lN<tn tSlO OlU k1teeltS /
and for this there can be no other sufi.
cient reason than that the Republicans
in those States.ar3 all at one with the
negroes.
III. He no. css!y cnldiy turna his back
on tho negroes and their white allies in
the former slayeholding States, but he
goes into 6ne Of those States and takes to
his embrace man we'll known for bis
opposition to the colored party.
s Mr.. Hayes has plenty of soft words
about the equality of the races. IT. the
face of this formation Of his Cabinet, they
become meaningless. To the colored peo.
plo and their alliesihe gives honeyed phra-
sea: iiuss he sivaA them no REPRESENTATION in
his Cabinet. He may send one colored
man to ,Hayti, and employ another to
black bid fSbs6tss but he viii NOT be found
taking sweet counsel together on public
,sfTairs with any Of them, or with theiI
white worshippers. From the inaugura'
ton of Mr.. Hayes as President will date
the decline and fall OF all practical equal
itys political or social, in this country. fol
the tolored race. It is an epoch in oul
..nliieai hjstnrv. the Significance Of which
Is plain TO oil who Wal open their eyes. -
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