, 1877-03-04

| to teach lessons of wisdom. But it some
times requires an outward occasion to fur
niEh human pride with seeming reason tor
a new departure. The accession OF Mr
HAYES to the Presidency offers both the
| South and the North that occasion. He
pledged himself, in his letter accepting the
nomination, to a conservative and generous
| course. He will be true to his word. and,
in SO doing, to the interests OF the country.
He should be met in the same spirit, South
and North, and recognized as ahigh-n,inded
mediator. The opportunity is one which the
Southern whites should be prompt to seize.
The policy of representation, Of opposi-
ton to the education Of the freedmen, OF ln-
timidation ct the polls, and Of discourtesy
and even violence towards immigrants from
the North, has been failure. Its continu-
ance will simply make hostile and implaca-
BILE national political party, and will drive
the negro to meet the rifle with the torch.
In a change Of programme by the whites,
plainly A1r. HAYES will be able to do m
speaknbly more for them than would have been
possible to 1lr. TmDES, SO far as just and
permanent settlement of difficulties is con-
cerned; for Mr.. HAYES has the confidence Of
the Republican party in every section, md
OF the freedmen at the South. He has had
no connection with carpet-bnggers, and is
committed to no policy Of armed Federal
interference in State politics. The way is
thus open for q new departure.
Equally is it for the interest of the negro
and his friends to recognize existing facts,
and to welcome an arrangement by which
the color line shall cease to be drawn on
both sides, and the responsible management
of local affairs shall come into the hands of
the Intelligence and property Of the resident
community. That this feeling will soon
prevail, many things argue. The March
number of the American Aissiona7y-the
organ of the oldest, ab1est, and most
influential Of the societies for the
benefit of the freedmen, and whose
editor has just returned from a South.
ern trip-makes this significant editorial ut
terance, which speaks the minds Of the for |
mer "Abolihonists
The ciyil-rlshts agitation is over, quiet future
is anticipated; negroes are buying land; FREQ |
schools are extending; things gradually adjust
Ing themselves to the inevitable; and better pub
lie sentiment Is forming. A large and growing !
class OF farmers and business men, and increas-
fns number OF colored men are tired Of poll |
tics, and care more more for prosperity |
and the comforts Of life than for who Is lin or
*'out." One who reads Southern political news
papers, and one who drives through the country,
meeting people ut random, would come to very
lifferent conclusions in respect to the temper Of
he South An ''eye-to-eye" :" experience Is rcas-
uring.
Patriotism and good sense will soon e1-
ricate us from past complications if I'LL par
les are wise. The whites shall have fair
'lay if they will give fair play to the
legroes. The Republicans want no artif-
ial returns manufactured by Returning
}oard"; but as little will they submit to
bulldozng" in politics. They invite
heir fellow citizens Of both races and Of both
arties to unite in inaugurating new era
$ wei: rs g. new President,-an era Of law,
rder, liberty, education, industry, and
aace