The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-12-31


political offenders" To make immunity
mora certain the policy OF appointing AS Dis.
triot-Attorneys and Marshals men agreeable to
the white people Of the South--ihat Is, Demo-
crats-was determined upon.
At the dictation OF the most trusted and po-
tent advisers of the Administration, General
GordoD-captured by Grant In 1865, putt in
Federal command by Hayes in lS76-one o. T..
Fltzsmmons, rebel Democrat ani a cousin Of
Wade Hampton, was appointed Marshal OF
Georgia, in place OF one Smythe, competent
aud honest Republican, aud was confirmed By
the Democratic Senator'S votes aud that OF
Stanley Matthews alone. Prior to the selection
OF Eitzsmmons, the President had deter rmined
to change Smythe and appoint Mr.. w. a.
HUFF of Macon, Democrat whom Gordon had
selected. Some Republicans of Georgia Joined
10 recommending Huf, upon discovering
which damning fact Gordon racted his selec-
tion OF HUH and procured the President to
nominate Fitzsimmons. Gordon thus states
bis reasons In letter to HUFF
81 heard for the first time that you were being
pressed for appointment as a suitable person to
prised at this, at once asked the President to with
hold any appointment for day, AMI until conld be
heard m from The Pesident consented. Messrs.
MeBurney and Dibble, Republicans from
Macon, in their letter to the President
that your appointment would materially strengthen
Republicanism in Georgia, in harmonizng conflict
ing party differences, and bring much strength from
sources hitherto dormant, or in active oppsition.
therefore asked the President the direct question:
is Mr.. Hut urged for appointment a Democrat?"
lie said mo; not as Democrat, but as man with
very liberal ideas in politics. The information
give me by the President himself, supplemented by
the fact that Messrs. McBurney and Dibbe had
presented and urged your appointment because 1t
would materially strengthen Republicanism in
Georgia were the reasons, the only reasons, and
think sufficient for my opposition TO your
appointment. They left me no alternative but to
say to the President that did not believe your ap-
pontment would be acceptable to the people OF
Georgia. Had you made known your disapprOval
of such arguments you would have saved the Presl-
mlSaDOrelen
status. me from the disagreeable task which sense
ofduty to my state compelled me to. perform, and
yourself possibly from the modification experience
ed at the loss OF the Office you desired to fill
J.B. GORDON.
And so Gen. Gordon:procurss Samuel j. Til
den-no, Rutherford B. Hsyesi-to turn out
Smythe, Republican, change from Huff, a
liberal Democrat, to Fitz:immons rebel Dem
ocrat, and make the latter Marshal to protect
the poor and colored people of Georgia! OF
ike chsracter, procured by like influences, are
the appointments of Waldon as Marshal of
Tennessee and Northrop and his assistant as
District Attorneys in South Carolina. These
significant instances of a surrender Of the pow
er of the Federal courts to rebel Democrats,
the prompt aud complete amnesty to all negro
murderers and Ku- klux, and theeager trampiOg
out Of the only remaining Republican state gov
ernment at the south entirely crushed all Re-
publican courage, and left Republicans at the
mercy of their enraged enemies, who turned
upon them with fierce hatred. Prosecutions
freely resorted to, and obnoxious Republicans
driven away or unjustly convicted. The Re
publican party has been compelled to disband,
and the dangers of so!id South and rebel rule,
which President Hayes wanted the people OF
Ohio made to believe would be- sverted it he
were elected, bave become terrible realities In
Mississippi Gov. Stone, Infamous for his fall
ures to prosecute etfectuslly the Chisholm mur-
derera was reelected By 96,3S2 votes, only 1853
Republicans daring to 20 to the polls, where in
1872 Grant had 81, 175 votes and Greeley only
AZ 288. and in 1876 Hayes had 81 COS votes to
1l2, ,173 for Tllieu. In Virsiuia 101 $40 Demo-
cratic votes were cast and 1889 Republican. In
Georgia, the Republican party seeing Senators
Gordon and Hill the intimate friends and trust
ed advisers of President Hayes debating the ap-
pointments and controlling the Federal patron
age, must of necessity dissolve, and vet, in 1872
Grant L ad 62 $50 votes, and Greeley 76, 356, aud
aud even Hayes had so, 446 TO 130.06S for TIL
den In PENNSYLVANIA, where Hayes had 1884,
122 votes TO 366, 1853 for Tilden, the Republican
party in 1877, weighted by the Hayes policy cast
but 244, ,4S0 votes, falling off of 100000, aud
the Democrats carried the state bv 1000 major
iiy. In Ohio, where Hayes had 800, ,698 to 313,-
1S2 for TiideD, the Republican party, in 1877
cast only 24l 437 votes, loss of 9,26l and lost
the state by 900 majority, and the Legisla-
ture BY over forty majority, which the previous
year had been Republican by thirty-fve major
lty. In Massachusetts,, where the new policy
was most Extensively thrust down the throats of
Republicans of the 150,063 voters for Hayes
who gave hum $4,000 majority over Tildep, over
10000 refused TO vote for Governor Rice in 1877
aud the majority against him was 1886, and 1t
was only by the support and money of the or
ganized rumsellers of the state, aud over 10 900
Democratic votes procured by rum influence,
that he secured his election by plurality and
the state was saved from the fate of Ohio and
Pennsylvania. Look, however, at the result
where the new policy was repudiated. In Iowa
HAYES had 59,228 plurality, aud 10 1877 the Re-
publicans had 81 1923 plurality. In New York
Hidden had nofo md IN . ~.
Democrats had only II. .264 majority, although
the new policy men promoted the Demociaiic
side BY indifference and by procuring the new
ADMINISTRATION to make or announce many in
judicious removals of Federal officers for the
sole purpose of irritating and humlliating Sem
ator Conkling and his friends
VI.
These, then, are the facts before us:
l. Ruthertord B. Hayes was elected Presi-
dent by the Republican party on the platform
OF opposition to rebel rule and a solid South;
and with pledges to protect to the extent of
Federal power life, suffrage and the free exer-
else of all political rights at the South; was
counted in as President only by reason of sps.
cial pledges TO the same effect given BY his Rep
reseptatives aud agents, Senator Sherman and
other Ohio emlssaries, who particularly and
emphatically promised that he would recognize
and maintain the lawtal state governments of
South Carolina and Louisiana, and stand by
Cows. Chamberlain aud Packard.
Ii. DoIOre tne actual d05laratOQ OF his elaC-
tion and TO secure the same, deliberate written
bargain was made in bis behalf by the same
Senator SHERMAN and his associates, BY which
1T was agreed with Senator Gordon and other
Southern rebel Democrats that when he should
be President no attempt should be made to en-
force the above principles of his party but that
the South shoult be allowed to manage it's own
affars IN its own way, aud that in particular he
would abandon the lawful state governments of
Louisiana and South Corolins aud recoguize in
ia Onu ,anta Of NUaIA
Hampton aud f. q. Nichols.
Ill. Alter his inauguration. the bargain was
literally fulfilled; the United States flag dis
gracefully hauled down in Columbia and New
Orleans; the lawful governments notified to
surrender to rebel mobs, and, upon their, hesi
tattoo, deliberately and actively torn down by
his administration by unconstitutional processes
and the use of Federal patronage, vigorously
welded by the same Secretary Sherman and
his associates; the mob governments of Hamp-
ton and Nichols recognized; and solid South
aud rebel rule established by the swift and
eager action Ut his administration.
w. All attempts to administer the govern
ment upon the principles by proclaiming which
he had been elected and counted in, were de-
hberately abandoned; the South notified that
1t should not be interfered with by bis admin
istration; Southern ku-kiux and negro murder
ers released and amnestied by Presidential
order; the enforcement of Federal laws at the
South given up or intrusted to rebel Demo.
cratic hands; Senator Gordon and his fellow
bsrgainers accepted as the intimate and &C.
knowle1ged advisers of the President and the
disposers of federal patronage; and the black
and white Republicans of the South mercless-
ly surrendered to the insults, prosecutions and
atrocities of thei Democratic enemies.
V. AS a necessary result of all this, the Re-
publican party at the South was disbanded, and
no Republican votes were cast ia states where
free ballot would show large Republican ma
Jorites; the Republican party at the North was
parslyzed wherever the advice Of supporters or
apologists for the new policy was needed; Re-
publican defeats ensued wherever it was en-
dorsed, Republican victories only where it was
repudiated; and with solid South and di-
vded North, the Confederate Democrats are
marching towards national victory in 1880,
whlle President Hayes and Secretary Sherman
look on with as much Indifference as if they
were IN name. as they are in fact allies of the
Democratic party.
In view of these lamentsble facts it is the
duty of true Republicans to take prompt and
courageous action. Silence is crime; acqui-
escence aud inactivity are political DEATH Can
the Republican party, of heroic achievements,
be bound to an administration which is not
free agent. but is Dound by bargain to Gems.
Gordon, Lamar, Wade Hampton aud other
Southern Democrats now in high office only
through the blood of murdered Republicans? /