Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-12-02
PATTERSON AT BAY.

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Patterson, driven to bay, pits his indict
ment against the Presidents Wormley Treaty
He protests that his surrender to the Butler
ties is no worse than Hayes's abandonment
of the Republicans of the South to the tender
mercies of the Ku Klux Klans He takes his
stand, desperately, and asks that it be com
pared with that assumed by Stanley Mat
thews, by Hoar of Massachusetts, and by
other Republicans in and out of the Senate
who support Hayes. Patterson is bull in a
china-shop; an enfant terrible; merciless
State witness a counter plotter of amazing
vigor and forcefulness. He is terrible re-
sstant to the Presidents Policy. The sting
of his reproach is in its truth. We quote
from the dispatches: Reverting to the South
ern policy he said Gas | understand that
policy in its final analysis and its sure conse-
quences, it means the abandonment of politi-
cal friends to conciliate political foes 1t
makes the further mistake of assuming that it
is the Democratic South that must be concili-
ted whereas it is the mighty Republican North
that should be conciliated This scheme or
policy of Cancellation involves, am informed
the rehabilitation or revival of the old Wing
party as a necessary agent to secure its per-
manent success. If the President can effect
this-if he can go down into the political val
ley of dry bones and infuse life and motion
once more into the scattered life of the Wing
party-he will stand confessed as the cham
pion resurrectionist of the age No, sir, it
cannot be done AS well might some deluded
architect attempt to erect the thousand pala-
ces of great city out of the broken and mold
erlng tombstones of an ancient village grave
yard. But it is now an open secret that the
President says that he intends to reinforce, or
supplement, the resurrected Wing party with
the merchant and religious element in the
South, and then incorporate this trinity thus
formed into the National Republican party
am not aware that there are any live mer-
chants in the South with present party ties or
political identity. If there are any such, then
they are not properly represented by the New
Orleans, Mobile, Charleston and Savannah
Chambers of Commerce and as for the relig-
ious element of the South, they worship God
and the Democracy, and will not bow down to
this craven image called Hayes Southern
policy But whatever this policy is in theory
we know what it is not in practice. 1t Ger
talnly is not the protection of Republicans in
the Southern States in the free exercise of all |
their rights as American citizens, and the just |
of their great and timely political |
services We know it is built on broken |
political trust, and it's corner stone is laid in |
black ingratitude and cemented by the blood |
Of betrayed political friends. Sir, the Repub-
leans of the South are not dead, nor are they
leeping The Athenians reared monument
% Time, and inscribed it TO him who aven-
res Time Time, sir, will avenge this great
wrong, and that in no far distant future.
The now down-trodden Republicans of the
south will remember both those who be-
riended them and those who betrayed
hem in the day of their need. Doubt
ess the Republicans of the South have been
utility of many errors and are responsible for
luch of the maladministration of Southern
tate governments during the past eight years;
ut whatever their previous faults, betraying
heir friends was not one of them. have said
hat whatever protection Republicans enjoy in
ne South, so far as their persons and prop .
rty were guarded against violence, they owe t
} the clemency of the victor. This is en- !
hatically true in South Carolina, 80 far as the {
lfuence of Governor Hampton extends. l i
elieve he is a just and honorable man aud f
ltends to inforce a just and impartial admin a
tration of the laws without regard to race or
arty. But, benign as are his purposes, there f
power behind the throne stronger than r
lie throne itself, and he sits silent and mac t
We while the State is terrorized and Repubi- il
ms are crowded into the Jail of Columbia Il
trough fragrant political conspiracy prosecu- y
d by Democratic officials against them un. n
II the forms of laws" II