The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

The President would have au inter
view with the two Governors of Louis
lana and South Carolina. Hampton
suffers Chamberlain to go. first and he
will follow, though silent as yet, after
q time. There can be but one solution
Of troubles in South Carolina, and the
policy of the President is to temporize.
He says, in his letter to Chamberlain,
that he does not propose to use the
army and this is equivalent to saying
he will not depose Hampton; and poor
Chamberlain, in his journey to Wash
ington, is on his last legs. Hayes, it
seems, is an eminently good-natured
man. He was talking kindly and
laughIngly wifi Morton and listening
to Morton's advice only two hours be-
fore he sent to the Senate his list of
nominees for places in his mixed Cabi-
net. Morton was almost bull dozed by
the shock, and poor Blaine went off
into a blazing pyrotechnical speech,
but the sky-rocket came down q stick,
Morton fell like Lucifer to rise no more,
and now Chamberlain comes Jogging
along across the sandy, barren plains
and across the red, naked hills of the
Carolinas and presents himself before
the kindly, amiable President only to
have himself uncrowned. 1t will be
most gently and annually, but
none the less surely done, and Hayes
will be President for four years, and
Packard and Chamberlain and Morton
and Blaine see no help for it and they
must accept and defend his policy.
Submit they will, and Blaine and
Morton, rather than have the President
lapse into the embraces and control of
conservative Democracy, will become
the opponents and partisans of the
President. They are not fools and, as
Bob Toombs said, Democracy in the
Senate was only wanting In brains
when it did not seize the opportunity,
when Morton and Blaine revolted, to
capture the President. But Blaine and
the rest recovered their senses when
recovering from their amazement
and terror and rage, and now
we read Of the President and Morton
airing themselves and ideas together in
an open carriage about the capital and
the Democratic Senators stand aloof,
helpless, idle, impotent. Radicalism
resolves itself into conservatism, as
Hayes would have it, and Democracy
is only the helpless and unrewarded
Opposition" But what signifies it?
We only ask that the freedom of all
the States alike be restored; that the
knaves be expelled from South Caro-
lima and Louisiana; that the army be
used, as the theory and history Of the
country intended, in assuring the re,
publlcanism of the continent, and not
in upholding local despots that honest
men, Identified In interest with the
people who feed and enrich them, be
invested with Federal local offices, and
then, when the Federal system is thus
administered, the great mass of the
people will be content. Meanwhile,
illustrations of the courage and self
will and sense Of justice of the Presi
dent will be surely discovered in hi:
patient, resolute line of policy en-
ployed in dealing with hapless State:
desolated by knaves and smitten with
intolerable despotism. Hayes mus
have peace and order and good gov
= eminent in the South, and these end
are only compatible with the suprem
acy of Hampton and Nichols.