The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26

butcherics at Hamburg Elentou, Coiax. coushatta,
Mechanics Institute, Clinton, vcksbure or any other
OF the hundred saughters OF republicans mat mgnt pe
named.
PRESIDENT HAYES AND aEruBLIcAS PARTY
do not believe that President Hayes intends TO
destroy the republican party and attempt the erection
OF a new one upon It's RUNS. believe In MS
10 make the ADMINISTRATORS benencencet the coun
The language OF inaugural strong and Deau-
tiu and the declaration OF his devotion 10 the great
doctrines OF human rights which constitute The ioun-
daion OF the republican party lett nothing TO be added
or desired He began the conduct OF national affairs
under circumstances OF extraordinary dnicuty the
minds OF men were greatly divided as to what should
be done, while all agreed that something should DO
done, that things could not long go on az they were
He marked out his course and addressed himself TO Is
with undaunted courage.
Mr.. hayes was elected . republican, and believe
no will DO republican President not In mere parti-
way, but IN the Of devotion 10 republican
principles and the maintenance the republican
ganzaton by placing the political power the hands
OF worthy ana qualified republicans. Political prnci-
pies do not execute themselves they require party
In war; Great numbers OF the Same way OF
thinking, but acting without concert, are as
helpless unorRanized multitude IN the
presence OF disciplined army ! present tho
republican party as grand and indispensable inssru-
mentality for carrying INTO operation the true prn.
cipes of government and human rights. We hear -
sad that the republican system oil reconstruction IS
failure. The only sense IN which II has Jailed Is that
1t has been resisted by armed and murderous organ
zaions; by terrorism and prescriptions, the most
assurances 10 President Hayes in Louisiana and else
where OF protection and equal rights are executed IN
good latin the system will not be failure but grand
success from Its enemies Tho great features
OF reconstruction tho fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments TO tho constitution, establishing tho
equal civil and poitca! rights OF all men, ana the
statutes enacted for their enforcement. SO far as
these have Jailed reconstruction is failure; SO Tar as
they succeed reconstruction Is a success
INTERESTS AND INTENTIONS SOUTH
Let be understood that the great purpose now OF
the southern people recover from the losses In.
leaving the Union; they are not now preparing
schemes Tor future secession, but are win Intense
nlxn MIA fur
great For this purpose they viii support inc
democratic party North us long us u subservienttc
their policy, Notwithstanding their Unsurpassed
resen tinent for It's influence IN getting them into
a rebellion, and its sneaking and cowardly course
while II lasted We are told that they arc quiet IN
those States the democratic rule Ii established.
Very likely When they have gained the complete
ana inc parry mas en
OF their politics There VIII be peace when there IS
alcct submission. Let the recent massacre 10 MIS-
sssipp which has made the Modoc comparatively re-
spectacle, answer Peace which IS obtained by
stamping political party out oil existence IS
not The harbInger OF prosperity and happiness.
The large body the white people who engaged IN the
rebellion firmly united IN favor OF several things,
and they will by the party that iavors Thorn and
oppose 10 the bitter end party that opposes them
Among these is the payment for rebel property taken
or destroyed by our armies when Mr. Tiiden wlo'e
his letter. before tho election against these claims
he lost his h0lu upon the South and was made 10 lcel
it in the late struggle IN Congress- No democratic
candidate will repeat his bunder Although Southern
democrats voted him atter he wrote the letter It
froze the current of their synpahles and had more
to prevent the counting Of the vote than any
other cause. II greatly reconciled them 10
the loss OF Tden In The late House tho dividing limo
between rebel and loyal claims ignored, and in
single democratic administration would be oberated
When this comes TO pass about claims the distinction
in rebel and Union debt will be obllterated and lost.
Slaves will be treated other property sacrificed by
our government 1t will not all be done or avowed at
pubic mind has become domcrallzcd. The rebellion
has ceased to be crime, scarcely q mistake. The
complete OF the fraternity will demand the
aholit, nj
Heason
Tho republican party was never more necessary TO
the nation than 1t to-day. ALI talk about laying
down the republican organization 70 take up new
with little, into which old Copfcacrates may
enter without wounoing lher susceptbilites, would
be criminal If II were not supremacy silly. The prop
oston that the party when saved the nation ana
which II must live III live 1t does), and which has
record the most glorious In the annals OF human or
CIVILIZATIONS, shall commit suicds NJ act OF conctlia.
ton tho enemies OF the republic sicnces
mcnt by ats audacitY. We are but realizing what has
been visibly coming Tor several years-trom 1865
II has been apparent that tho republican party
the south should overthrow by force II It could
not be done otherwise The opening Of carnage
IN that year, in winch moro than 1000 republicans
killed and woundcd 10 Louisiana alone were but
a prelude to the campaign oil violence which ended IN
the bloody field OF last year. The destruction 0f the
republican party would mako the democratic party
supreme ana iastsn upon the country ts odous policy
and principles. The men who directed the bloody
crusades the South Tor the last ten years snat
have eliminated in a 1nat victory in
ana have lost none OF their power. The men
who within several years have welded the
democratic party in solid column, North and South,
against the fifteenth endment still IN the ascend
Is auy weak enough TO believe they or
majority OF them have boon soundly converted and are
honest advocates OF the equal rights OF mem It's my
opinion that the Dody OF the Southern democracy have
changed In regard 10 the civil and political rights
OF the negro and that II Tden had been elected Prosi
dent within his term Of four years the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments would have
been substantially ovcrihrown. In most OF
In Gnut harm Stufe hug huv hQau
panied by tho methods recently illustrated IN
Mississippi and other States, and is altogether pos
sibe Tor that exquisite potential genius which can ex-
tract democratic majority OF $4,000 from republic
can majority OF so D00 No prays Tor Cancellation
and fraternity between North und South more earn
esty than myself but Cancellation and fraternity 10 be
honorable and durable must be based upon concession
OF equal civil and political rights peace and protection
TO men OF all and crceds. II tho men who
held the coorcd people bondage, aud who at every
step since the war and until yesterday fought against
equal rights aud the constitutional amendments, arc
to-day regcneratcd and will administer the great
principles asserted by the republican party placed
by it in the constitution and laws. IS consumma-
Of mind on the part OF tho southern
people should regard as the most i'm
por ant and desirable OF all political conditions
inc grand result which every patriot at heart but
II do not believe in this sudden conversion ought
not 10 DO considered increduous and prcJudiced aud
II about THIS am wrong. and II the republican party
have by thor Efforts and discipline subuued the very
hearts OF the democracy Of the south how can We
sufficiently comprehend and magnify the achieve
ment
EQUAL RIGHTS IN THE SOUTH.
In Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas,
part oil Missouri, aud midle and western Tennessee,
tree suffrage exists chiefly Ia name. Georgia. which
there Is not difference oil cght thousand votes be-
tween the parties, gave Iilden majority Of eighty
thousand. III counties not u republican
was polied Mississippi with republican majority oil
thirty thousand, was made 10 return democratic
majority OF sixty thousand In tour counties, contain
ms nity thousand republican votes, seven republican
votes were polcd which were admitted just 10 show
that republicans could vote Alabama with clear
publican majority Of ten thousand. was modo TO
return democratic majority OF ihirty-hvo
hundred. In Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas APP
proximate results were produced by like processes.
Ii is Jolly to alege that these States there
liberty, protection and equal rights The voluminous
testimony taken by the Senate committees establishes
the tact that the liberty enjoyed by the republicans
both white and black, was but nominal They were
ouicass IRON society. oppressed in business hunted
Ike criminals and denled the protection OF the laws.
Peace commercial prosperity based upon such
dons hollow aud worthless, aud are but another
form of bartcr nj rivntg for pold Inc