New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-03
THE NEW ADMINISTRATIONS.
GOV HAYES AND TIE SOUTH.

GOV. HAYES AND THE SOUTH.
-, o,,,,,ruxrry coR GREAT REsULTs-MEN WHO
ARE DEMOCRATS ONLY FROM A PROTECTIVE
poIrcY-oPINIoNs GATHERED FROM VISIT To
SOUTHERN STATES,
ram, FdttOr OF Ths Trtouhe'
SIN. have conyerscd quite recently WIN
many prominent 10 different parts OF Tue SCUM 20
20 the probable political effect that would result " '"'
.ection sboud Mr. Hayes embrace what you very Truly
term IN your leader Of yesterday "tIe grahuos' opp
emily ever placed before any President" As the views
EXPRESSED by those gentlemen to some extent acco'u "
spirit with those you have air ady plbsheu resaiune
what the future Presidents policy should be, II he de
sres TO win 10 his the best element AT the oout
have embodied what has been told me IN 'n's c'ei,
boung that It might find place In your very abie fa anu
popuar paper. While II occurs to inc, ct inc say ""'
Won are by no means in when you assert th"t Mr.
HAYES has now the opportunity offered him Of winning
to Republican principles thousands who nave iesl'Oeo
them at the peril Of their lives" Permit Inc To adu'
however that that continued resistance to the RepuOl-
can party by the Southern Whites have enough reason
to believe the result OF the ACTON OF th'
pary's spurious representatives at the SCUM In ds-
torting those principles and applying counterfeit COLI
structon them than the sequence OF any very great
hostility the principles themselves as the pacucai
rules OF conduct OF a great political party.
All candid observers will agree that the old sectional
antipathy between the North and the South engcndered
by the Antl-savcry agitation, and which cnlninateh III
the late rebellion resulted the close OF the war in the
violent, personal and almost implaca9e hapcd anu
eocal ostracsn OF every Northern man, without regard
to character living in the South who held to inc primer
ples Of the Republican party This relentless enmity anu
universal prescription from political prejudice, II 1t has
not entirely disappeared in all or the states OF the SOUTH
is manfesy gradually disappearing, ana that too IN
those States where, the most ardent partisan oil the
must admit, the native population has had no S'lgn'
cause OF complaint against both the character ana con-
duct of many whom the North has sent among them
Yet however intense the anmOsity may DO WHICH SUN
pursues those consccnceless political Adventures VINO
have wrought financial ruin and anarchy III two OF the
most productive and richest states OF tho S"u 'ero II
nothing in this DcxOrabe aversion to notorious Ihu-
yIduals nothing in this utter lOahng OF DaslrZeu ne
pubcanism in South, which has III II sadoW Oh sec
tiona fecns hostility TO the cardinal principles OF
the Republican party * recognized and practiccd among
the States of the North And, however resoluey the
better and tar-payng portions OF those communities
NAV have determined to rid themselves Of tier plum
ierers aud control their own State Governments there
10 nothing in this determined resolve OF large ana Ger
tainly the most reputable class both white ana DicA'
that will anagonize the judciOus policy when the he
publican party will pursue in the future as foreSadowed
IN that admirable letter of acceptance OF It's nominee Tor
tbe Presidency In South Carolina and Louisiana both
Cows Hampton land Nichols have depressed the
universal sentiment OF their States and OF the south Tor
law and ORDER and the earnest Willingness OF the people
to extend cheeruy its moral and material support 10
the lawfully constituted authority about to I've vested III
Gov Rutherford d. Hayes, wise and pure statesman.
yet who was not the choice Of the Southern people for
the Chief Magistracy Of this great nation.
Another fact very apparent Is that the old Secessonist
-sucb men AS the Rhcts In South Carolina and Toombs
in eorgia-are not III the ascendancy in the degree th
is commonly supposed by the Northern people, and
will venture to assert that to-day the patriotic feeling Tor
the preservation OF the Union IL united and as strong
throughout the South it was in the North Immediately
after the firing sumter In case or war or reyOluon
whether the nations life is assaed by foreign or do
nestle foe the Government at Washington will find no
rer and more Jealous adhercnts and no section OF the
country more unanimous In raying To IT'S support IMAM
that which has been somewhat cOntcmptuousy termed
the solid South" II President Hayes refuses to at
TEMPT TO regulate from the White House the internal
affairs OF the Southern States, there will 10 longer exist
among the Southern whites that opposition to the Repu0
lcan party in which that portion of the Southern people
have heretofore been consolidated. The status OF the
negro having been clearly and rreyocahy defined that
matter will be forced out OF political notice ny Other
questions upop which the South is much liable to
be in sympathy with the views OF the RcpuDcans tnau
with the Democrats OF the North and when the occasion
arises no false consideration OF sentiment and party
iraltv will deter the at the South from seeking
elsewhere that sympathy aud assistance which they have
little hope of securing through the party at the North
with which they have heretofore been politically dentl
fled. Give the Southern people yet remaining at the
mercy rascay returning boards the control or their
own State governments and the coming Administration
will find tha there is indeed vast element in the south
thai is by no means in accord and has very little III cOn
mon with the traditional policy Of the Democratic party
an element which has only cOOperated with that party
for mutual against just such political confusion
a. AT present dsturbs South Carolina and Louisiana
These expressions do not represent alone the opinions
Of those with whom have convcrsed, but they are the
candid convictions Of multitude OF Southern men OF
reputation and property, who having experienced the
dangers and suffered the subsequent vcssitudes caused
by the war OF the rebellion, have been taught by those
bitter experiences to properly appreciate government
surely too popular and powerful to suffer very seri-
ously from the folly Of few disappointed politicians
thwarted in their efforts to obtain power.
Ihaye the subscribe myself an exConfederate
ofcer-in principle Old Line Wing, but under existing
circumstances, III practice and from necessity,
A SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT.
Washington, ID. c., Feb. 81. 1877.