The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-02
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
TINE HAYES POLICY ~ NOT A soUTHs
ERN, BUT A NATIONAL Policy.
Views Of am Eminent Congressnssr am
sspeakcrship.

t0psclaA correspondence N. 0. Democrat.I
WAsHreToN, May a, 1877.
1he other day encountered distinguished
Southern representative recognized leader Of
the CONSERVATIVE party In that section. 4 member
q the last Congress, and fortunately reelected
70 the next. He proceeded to interview me.
Have you given up that ridiculous movement
TO disband the Democratic csucus In the anexs
House, elect Charley Foster Speaker and bring
about the millennium by raising heH sepersIlv p,
he asked. . eEss4 -
Disclaming the design imputed by tho last
half OF his question. / answered The first half
directly, "yes," and proceeded to expisin that
/ GARFIELD YVES THE INpIyrpUkE
to whom the Democratic party was intlebted for
the defeat OF q programme which ut one time
promised some Of the results intim sted in. tina
first half Of my friends inquiry.
! VERY well" he rejoined. "Now that you bava
got back to hard sense again. why don's you write
something for the New Orleans DEmocn Arfv,ioh
will interest and inform the people who raad i,2
Why don't you discuss the real interests or the
Southern people and show what will hc, the
actual policy of their representatives in Con-
gress7"
Informed my friend that would be s.aa In
do 30. r.., ~ .t..
"Well, then," said he, settling himself lin a
mrHe armchair. and adjusting his rheums tic leg
in . comfortable position, 81 will give you ssme
hints. In the first place will define the rela.
lions which now exist, and which will probably
contInue TO prevail between the representatives
OF the Southern people and the present Admins
tration. The President has terminated the ola
policy OF interference by the Federal Government
In the domestic affairs Of the various southsrn
States, and BE has adopted o new programmes.
which is esiled
THE SOUTHERN Policy,
'Ehis is msnomer. 1t should not be called
TIE Southern policy. because that term ,msksa
an invldfons distinction. 1t should properly bs
oaAed the national policy, because ID is in truth
nothing moro than the application to the whole
country OF those constitutional principles which,
had hitherto, at least since the war; been applied
ONLY TO THE NORTHERN STATES,
Inc Old policy OF interference and arbitraryr
setting up and pulling down OF State govern.
ments by military force WAS distinctively South
ern policy; 80. you see, what Mr. Hayes has done
Is simply to discontinue the distinctive Southern
policy OF his predecessor; to recognize one con-
stitutioh and one. code OF Laws for the whols-
country, and to adopt comprehensive
NATIONAL POLICY
Tor all, instead OF the old system Of one polior-
Tor she Northern and another for the Southern
Ststes.
The effect Of this aoion is TO relieve tho
Southern people from tie necessity of struggling,
Tor bare existence, which the old policy imposed
upon them, and gives them an opportunity to-
turn sheir attention to schemes for adysnc;,~
their material interests. No people on earth4
could think OF schemes for improving their prop-
erty or advancing their civilization while con-
stantiy menaced, as the 5outhern people have
been, with the terrors Of corrupt local govern-
ment and confiscstory taxation, forced u,on
them by central power too strong to be resist.
cd and deafto appeal. Thus, for the last ten
years. oil the energies Of the Southern people.
have been spent In their efforts to avoid. esaape.
evsde or postpone the consequences OF the4bAd
governments which have been
IMPOSED UPON THEM
BY the Federal power., The necessity Of employ
ing their energies to this end is now past. and
the Southern people find themselves In posi-
tton where. by making proper use Of their lawful
powers and by availiDg thems elves Of their repre-
sentation in Congress, they can soon inaugurate.
measures to repair the damages and LOSSES they
have suffered.
sat present the interests of all the gonthern.
people are identical. This ia the secres.oE
THE SOLID SOUTH.
THE policy inangurated by Che Congress- that
tried to impeaoh Andrew Johnson, and wfhch,
wss subsequently followed out by Grant, forced
the Southern States and their people into-one
common struggle for selEpreservation. And
now that that struggle Ia over, tha. poverty TO-
which 1t reduced the Southern States Andpeople
forces them into an equally unitsd, attitude Of
seiLintefest. Therefore the South, which has
heretofore been solid for sentinsntAl reasons,
nov becomes solid through material csases.
The Southern Representatives in Congress-
have always stood together wben.ti struggle OF
their section was for selfpreseryation; and they
will stand equally united now that the bond ID
common desire to repair the wasted fertanes
and renew the material prosperity Of their people.
But here You must consider this fact that, so
far ~ the next Congress is concerned, the men
who are to represent the South in her efforts for
The promotion Of her material interests were
elected in campaign which was wagsd ~ a part
and the concluding part Of the
STRUGGLE FOR MISREPRESENTATION:
they are, therefore, identified with the marty
which stood by them Of old, and they win not
abandon 1t without cause. That is. in other
woods, the Representatives Of the South mean to
give the National Democratic party fair oupor.
tunity to establish it's claim upon their allegiance
under the new order OF things. They will there
ore act with the caucus Of the party In organlz-
ng the House, and will present united front to.
ne adversary on All matters involving old issues
mould the adversary, Or any faction thereof
atempt to revive them to subserve the selfish
interests Of aspiring politicians Any effort to
evive the policy Of hate and interference, which
DIR. Hayes has discontinued, will be mst and
ombated by the Southern men. II in 10 doing
hey find themselves sustaining the measures Of
ne Administration they will, to that extent, be.
ome the