The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-17
HAYES AND THE SOUTH.

Intentions of President Hayes towards inc
south The only policy the south can accept
as friendly and pacific is one 'ha' Will aiio"
Them 10 manage their own affairs IN their
own way Thoy do not ask that Hampton
shall be supported and Chamberlain depo'eo
: j.; s,u,h Carolina, or that Packard Shall be
ous,ed and NIchol installed IN Louisiana
They simply ask that the government Oayoh'
cts shall be Withdrawn from bot states, ana
j the people left free to settle the question OF
their local government in their own way.
\ They pledge themselves to DO this without
violence or blCodshed and in q way that
shall protect the rights OF all classes alike
without regard to par y, creed, race, color or
previous condition of freedom or servitude.
Can Hayes grant this reasonable request
His doing 50 would involve degree Of per
tidy unexampled in the history of American
politics Withdraw the troops from South
Carolina and Louisiana, and in week the
authority of Chamberlain and Packard would
not only be treated with scorn and derision,
such objects of ridicule and contempt that
both they and their followers would find the
south too hot TO live in and would be obliged,
like Ames of Mississippi, to pack their carpet
bags and migrate to cooler climate. Not
only must Packard and Chamberlain do this,
but Wells, kellogg, Antoine, Anderson, Cas-
sanave, and that whole pestilent brood who
by fraud and violence have for years been
lOrdng 1t over and robblng The south would
either be driven ont with curses, or, if allow.
ed to remain, would be consigned to everlast.
ing political contempt and oblivion.
Can Hayes ask such a sacrifice of Cham.
berlain, Packard, Wells, &c.' Who are they
and what do they represent? The presiden-
tal election was in reality fought upon but
one issue. While the democrats arranged
the republican party for its stealing, corrup.
ton and general rottennesss, the leaders of
that party hoistcd the bloody shirt and ar.
rained the democratic party for Its sympa.
thy with and friendship for the negro hat.
ing, treacherous south" Bob Ingersoll in
his speeches went so far as to maintain that
the southern democracy were still such trail
tors at heart that they ought not to be allow
ed to vote. The eighteen northern states that
voted for Hayes were carried on this issue.
The stealing and corruption of the republi
cans were virtually admitted, but to install
the democracy in power by aid Of the solid
south would be the same as turning the gov
eminent over TO traitors. Such was the issue
on which Hayes was elected.
But something more was found necessary
to elect Hayes on this issue than to carry
eighteen northern states. The democrats
with the solid south had proved too strong,
and there was no help but to apply the Inger.
soil doctrine and disfranchse enough south.
ern states to secure the election of Hayes.
Who was to do .hiss The ready tools we're
found In Kellogg Chamberlain, Packard,
Wells, Anderson aud their following. 1t Is
Deedless to say how these men wallowed in
crime and covered themselves with iniamy 10
accomplish this object. But their action
was IN entire keeping with the Blaine
Ingersoll boody.shirt creed, and the party
in both houses OF congress and in the electo-
raj commission endorsed and gave it full
effect.
Packard, Chamberlain, &c, thus become
in every honest sense the representatives of
the vast body OF the republican party. To
cast them overheard is to defeat all that the
party commended for IN the presidential cam
paign, ana to admit that its objects were
wrong and its means of attaining them in
famous.
Is Hayes the man to do this thing. Is he
ready thus to belray the partisans who fought
for him through honor and dishonor, and
won success? Aside from the utter improba.
billy of the thing, there is certainly nothing
attractive, AS a contemporary sugg, SIS. "in
such a mlk.and.wa,er imitation of Caesar
Borgla, who acquired power by the basest
of means and acquired popularity by destroy.
ing his tools"