The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-03-26
THE PROGRESS OF ia YEsISM.
Surrender to Carpet Boggcrs-vioiation OF
Promises.


WASHINGTON March 2i-The thieving
carpet-baggers in this city are in great glec.
KELLOGG, SPENCER. PATTERSON, DORSEY,
CONOvER, and that crew, rejoice with exceed
ing Joy. They have triumphed, and they
have the right to be proud Of their victory,
such as it is and resting as it does upon
broken pledges, violated honor, and faithless
performance of sacred promises. Tho his
tory of the Electoral Commission has been
repeated i'm the person of the Fraudulent
President, who took the Office knowing its
tainted title was derived from perjured
Judges, and was purchased by q corrupt
bargain.
Whoever gave trust TO HAYES In the face
of this record, deserves no sympathy for be-
ing deceived, and little respect for tralllcking
with beneficiary of fraud. 1t is not the
habit in private life to welcome to confidence
the man who has just betrayed it, or col
ludcd with professional burglars to rob a
vault. Why should the rule differ in public
life, whore the greatest interests are at
stalker
Ever since HAYES entered the White House,
his whole course has been one of precon-
certed trickery intended to deceive the
country, and especially TO mislead the
South, by assurances that he never intended
to fulfil. The inaugural address, siltcd Of
its willy professions and cheap cant, means
.nothing substantial But 1t was accepted
.by the too coniiding as peace offering, and
in that spirit they sought TO secure relief
for Louisiana and South Carolina from the
vassalage TO which they have been subjected
by Federal Intervention and force.
Compelled finally to decide between the
contendlng parties, HAYES has exposed the
treachery of his nature a. well rs the inn
bccility Of his character He sends an en-
bassy to PACKARD TO conciliatc his good
will, and to bargain for terms of accommo-
dalton. PACKARD insolently rcpulsed the
first overturcs, by saying he had a better
title to be Governor than HAYES had to be
President, because the seoundrel5 who
counted both in gave him nearly a thousand
more "vOtes" than the occupant Of the
White House.
Next he summons HAMPTON and CHAM
BERLAIN TO Washington, as If they We're
pro-consuls dsputing over frontier PROV
incc. whose right was to be decided by an
imperial order with which the people had
no concern whatever Only two months
ago WHICH, AH' Ii'0l'A'iiNtbi ''ii7l'iAf'N Nh'
pressed in Congress. JOIN SHERMAN, GAR
FIELD, and the other promoters Of that
crime. assumed to defend the acts of the
Returning Board-ilnd to hold their DEGREES
binding against all corners, because to re-
view them would be an invasion OF state
rights.
Now, these samc consplrators applaud a
commission, the object of which Is to over
throw the popular will in Louisiana, and
they rejoice over an invitation which
reads like a Russian ukase. This is the pass
to which tho country has been brought by
Capitalization, and by the abuse of military
power by the Executive. GRANT called
around him Cabinet formed on the basis of
a staff to execute his orders HAYES has
brought a motley collection together who de-
not seem to know the difference between a
state and a -atrapy. and whose chief idea OF
public duty j. to hold office without regard
to the quality OF the title from which they
derive IL.
Gov NICHOLS can properlyroiu-c to hold
| any relations or enter into amy covenants
with COmmi-s ioncr- from HAYES. He has
nothing 10 explain and nothing to sell fol
| recognition. His title Is recorded on tn,
votes OF n large majority of the people o
Louisiana, which has Increased by man,
thousands since WELLS and his confederate
fal-itiod the returns and sold the state {,
the agents of HAYES and PACKARD.
For what ohiert shall Gov. II HAMPTON come
t. Washington L it f. contest beior,
HAVE, aul his mngrri Cabinet for tn,
office which the people OF South Ca.onu,
have conferred upon him. and which the re-
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