The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-05-28
PREsIDEaTHAYE POLICY
What Senator Morton Has to shy
About 1t.
The Republican Party md tie
Reconstruction OF the South.

do not believe that President Hayes
intends to destroy the Republican party
and attempt the erection OF new one
upon its ruins. believe in his patriot.
ism and high integrity in his undivided
purpose TO make the administration 4
beneficence to the country. The language
Of his inaugural was strong and beauti-
iul, and the declaration OF his devotion
to the great doctrines Of human rights
which constitute the foundation Of the
Republican party left nothing to be ad.
ded or desired. He began the conduct Of
national affairs under circumstances OF
extraordinary difficulty; the minds OF
men were greatly divided as TO what
should be done, while all were agreed
that something should be done, that
things would moi longer go on as they we're
He marked ont his course and addressed
himself TO il with undaunted courage.
Mr.. Haycs was elected as Republican,
aud believe he will be \ Republican
President, not in mere partisan way,
but in the sense OF devotion TO Republic
can principles and maintenance Of Re.
publican organization, by placing the
political power in the hands Of worthy
and qualified Republicans. Political
principles do not execute themselves.
They require party to do that. Organ.
ization in politics is rs necessary as in
war. Great numbers Of the same way Of
thinking, but acting without concert, are
as helpless az an unorganized multitude
in the presence Of disciplined army.
/ present the Republican party as n
grand and indispensable fundamentally
for carrying into operation the true prin.
ciPles Of government and human rights.
We hear il is said that the Republican
system OF reconstruction is n failure.
The only sense in which it has failed is
that it has been resisted by armed and
murderous organizationB-by terrorism
and prescriptions the most wicked and
cruel OF the age-and If the Democratic
assurances 10 President Hayes, in Louisi.
ana and elsewhere, Of protection and
equal rights, are executed in good faith,
the system will not be n failure, but n
grand success extOrted from its enemies.
The great features Of reconstruction are
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
ments TO the Constitution, establishing
the equal civil and political rights OF all
men and the statutes enacted for their en-.
forcement. So far rs those have failed
reconstruction is failure; so far us they
succeed reconstruction ia a success. Let
it be understood that the great purpose
now Of the Southern people is to recover
from the losses inflicted by the Rebellion,
They do not now think OF leaving the
Union. They are not now preparing
schemes Tor future secession, but are with
intense earnestncss revolving plans for
recovery from their great losses, For
this purpose they will support the
Democratic party North as long Us it is
subseryient to their policy, notwithstand.
ing their i'll reprcssed resentment for its
influence in getting them into a rebellion
and its sneakinG and cowardly course
while it lasted.
We are told that they are quiet in those
States where Democratic rule is estab.
lished. Very likely; when they have
gained the complete power and the Re-
publican party has ceased to struggle,
there will be no inducement 10 shoe, men
because Of their politics. There will be
peace when there Is abject submission. Let
THE RECENT MASSACRE IN MISSISSIPPI
which has made the Modoc comparative.
ly respectable, answer. Peace which is
obtained by stamping a political party
out OF existence is not the harbinger Of
prosperity and happiness. The large
body OF the white people who engaged in
the rebellion are firmly united in favor
Of several things, and they will stand BY
the party that favors them and oppose
to the bitter end the party that opposes
them: Among these is the payment for
rebel property taken or destroyed byour
armies. When Mr.. Tilden wrote his
letter Just before the election against
these claims he lost his hold on the South,
and was made to feel 1t in the late strug.
gle in Congress. No Democratic candi.
date will repeat his blunder. Although
Southern Democrats voted for him after
he wrote the letter, it iroze the current Of
their sympathies, and had more 10 do in
restraining them from iilibusterinr 10
prevent the counting OF the vote than
any other cause. 1t greatly reconciled
them to tho loss Of Tilden. In the late
House the dividing line between rebel
and loyal claims was ignored, and in a sin.
gle Democratic Administration would be
obliIerated. When this comes to pass
about claims the distinction in rebel and
Union debt will be obliterated and lost.
Slaves will be treated as other property
sacrificed by our Government, II will
not all be done or ayowed ut once, but
step by step already more rapid until the