The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
HE HAS ONLY DONE HIS DUTY

he Blaine's and Morton's candidate.
He comes before the country saying he
will be its President and not that of q
party, and the Brenham Banner sulk-
ilY says Hayes ''oHly does his duty"
How few are they who do their duty!
How infinitely honorable are these few
How the very angels bend down to lis
ten and to reverence! But the Banner
says that if Democracy survive Hayes's
administration and renew its old sec
tional struggle the South has nothing
to fear; that the North has learned
wisdom; that the ''irrepressible con-
filct" is no more; that having elected
Tilden we Can surely elect q straight
Democrat in 1880. There is solid rea-
son for no single conclusion stated.
Hayes, nOminally q Republican, i,
actually, so far as our fortunes are in
volved, better than a Democrat. He
accomplishes results of which Tilden,
in his place, would be wholly incapa-
BILE. He may be philanthropist, but
his devotion to the race is general and
not confined to that species which was
created black. He is generous and
truthful no doubt, and all his instincts
impel him to do right. What more do
we want2 What more can we ask
Democracy and Republicanism, in the
presence of such facts, are the emptiest
words and emptier than glittering
platforms devised to capture votes and
always forgotten when this end is
gained. We prefer practical facts to
words or names, and Hayes is prac
tical fact. He has already outraged
Phillips and Blaine and the ferocious
Ben Wade. 1t is a pity Waae's Southern
counterpart, Henry A. Wise, is not
suffered by Providence to rise and 60
for him. The ire of the Northern
wing of the partnership in sectional
Radicalism is already aroused to its
utmost bent of insane fury and South
ern c0adjutors OF Blaine and Wade tell
us through the Sherman Register:
The South has no hand in the fight
and should not care if it wax hot and
disrupt the Republican party.
OF course we would have
the Republican party disrupted,
In it's ruin consists the only
hope of the South. Its basic idea and
odic force consists in hatred of the
South and in its despotic purposes. Il
has governed and robbed for seventeen
weary, ruinous years, and it would die
| and be forever damned were it not fo
Ben Wade's counterparts in the Soutf
and for those miserable little whippers
in of the blessed party, who must live,
even though the country die. In eacf
successive conflict the South is beaten
Even when the solid vote of the sole
South, with beggarly msjorities in onl!
three Northern States, gave the Demo
cratic party majority vote, even ther
we were beaten. The North will no
suffer, after such a war of sections, thu
beaten section, as such, to govern thu
country. The Democratic party is an
other term for the South. Blaine
Phillips, Butler and Morton would
have no change IN this aspect Of facts
and therefore they, too, like poor Mar
tin, who knows not what he does
would endue Southern Democracy
with immortal life. Ben Wade is trag
ical in his fury in order to make idiot
of the South rave. Phillips indulge
in brilliant invectives to exasperat
fools, not in Massachusetts, more thai
in the Gulf States. The "chivalry'
and whoop-de-doodle blowhard De
mocracy and the Bourbon Methodist
are alike the victims and dupes o
Blaine's vehement and ingenious an,
maddening defamation. The P.esi
dent comprehends these facts. He see
the ruin wrought and once blessed
country discovered, and art and indus
try and morality and progress para
lyzed. Who will not accept his pol
icy, and who would not sacrifice q
old and valueless machine, constructe
mainly, as it now exists, to invest cor
ner grocery politicians with office, tha
justice and conservatism may be estat
lished.