The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-26
. POLICY FOB THE BLACKS.
LETTER TO A COLORED MISSlS-
= sSTPPIANs
The Presidents Policy Discussed by a
Radical Rcpublican-Duty of the Col.
ored People-Why the Blacks should
toin the Democratic Party.


of President Hayes, and his policy, and
what the colored voters of your State,
and the other Gulf States, should do, II
the. National Administration abandons
them?
shall answer you fully and frankly
and, as these questions are constantly
asked, shall print my reply, and grant
you the liberty to use it in any way you
please j,
president Hayes is the wisest and
ablest statesman of the day"-that IS,
his partisans and the Office seekers say
so. They have unanimously voted that
he is a great statesman, an American
Richelieu or second Bismarck; provi-
dentially sent to recement the Union
with the milk of human kindness. His
tory shows that God has veto power over
all such verdicts, and that his ancient
servant, Time, always records His opln-
ion and not that of the voice of the par
asites. And Time, I think, will write it
down that Hayes was man of good In
tentions, as it has already recorded that
,t'Hell is paved with good intentions; )"
that he was man of moderate intellec-
tnal capacity, with just frmness enough,
and brains enough, to commit political
paricide Ito destroy the party that in
vented him; chat his vanity was so great
and his grasp of contemporary tenden-
cies so feeble that he founded his policy
mot on social facts and organized forces
but on air-woven sentiments and peda-
gogical theories-unlike the epoch max
ing men of history who first diligently
sought the truth without regard to their
own wishes, and then directed the COM
plex elements existing around them.
Hayes is honest enough and he means
we'll. But, as Buckle has shown, the
greatest ills that have come to man,
through Governments, have been infic-
ted by, conscientious rulers-men of ex-
cellent intentions like good little
Hayes.
As Lincoln will be known as the lib.
orator of the slaves, and Grant as the
preserver Of the Union, so Hayes will be
remembered as the betrayer of the South
ern Republicans. Lincoln freed, Grant
conquered, Hayes surrendered. Do you
forget that it was to "save Ohio"-that
is, to elect Hayes as Governor-that
Grant was induced, against his own judg-
ment, to refuse the call of Ames for
troops to protect the Republicans of Mis-
sissippi? That was the Inauguration of
Hayes Southern policy. He is acting
to-day in entire consistency with his
history in preferring the bandit chieftain,
Hampton, and the Ku Klux cyclops,
Nichols, to the lawfully elected repre-
sentatives Of the Republican voters of
South Carolina and Louisiana.
One word, constantly in Hayes mouth,
reveals his character. That word is
Pozcy. That word is the shibboleth of
his motley horde of scamp-followers.
Once, the inspiration of the Republicans
was Principle. The party was warrior
of the Lord then, with light from Gods
Throne on its forehead. As far as Hayes
represents it, the party, now, is leprous
Lazarus, whining for the votes that fall
from the Southern Democratic table.
Open your eyes, my friend, and dare
to see the truth, even if it makes You
sick at heart. For the truth will set you
free from partisan bondage-a great boon
even if the price be so great. have
given too much of my life to this grand
old party-asking nothing from it but
the delight of serving it-not, now, to
have grieved over its unhonored and dis
honored grave. How luminous its path
way has been since little band of US,
Northern men and boys, called it into
being by confronting the armed emissa-
ries of South Carolina and Mississippi
on the unsullied soil of Kansas! First,
resisting slavery as aggressor; then,
shifting slavery as traitor; then, making
of chattels black men, and Of black men
American citizens-its record is a shin
ing trail of glory. Its battle-cry was
equal rights, and it was noble defender
of the faith. And now? Hayes surren-
ders the brave leaders who saved to us
South Carolina and Louisiana in order to
conciliate the assassins whose triumph in
November would have been his defeat.
He is President to-day by the votes of
the South Carolina and Louisiana ne.
groes. By their unreasoning self-sacri-
fee, by their sublime devotion to the
party that freed them, they Saved the
pearl of liberty to the family of freedom" !"
Lo! Hayes has pawned it to their perse-
cutors All the perfumes of Arabia will
never sweeten this per6dy most foul.
All the pleading tongues of men and of
ofice-holders will never keep down this
spectral Banquo-truth That Packard,
and> Chamberlain, and Hayes are each
and all and equally, the rightful or the
fraudulent rulers of the people who elec-
ted them by the same vote on the same
day and by the same party. -
Don't be deceived by what Hayes says.
Rulers are men of deeds. His acts speak
for him. He appointed a .colored man
to an Office, and then made haste to aban-
don colored State. Frederick Douglass
gets post worth $4,000 year, and the
fact is trumpeted as if it were decisive
proof of Hayes friendship for the negro
as if it were "new departure. Why,
Grant appointed Bassett-a colored man
Ito $4,000 mission-to Hayti an
other to the lucrative post Of Liberia !;
and still another to consulate in Spain,
besides giving black men throughout the
South honorable positions by the score.
Hayes says, or is reported to have said,
"that if the rebels do not act in good
faith he will soon change his policy"
This is boys talk, or worse. How can
he change his policy after he yields his
power? As soon as South Carolina and
Louisiana are abandoned, Hayes is as
powerless to help the Republicans as any
private citizen. "Who will care for Lo-
gan," then? The Republican platform
declares that the United States is ma
ton, not league; but the Democrats
adopted that article when they insisted
that Congress should 60 behind the Flor
ida returns, thereby abandoning their
theory of State Rights; and Hayes adopts
the cast-oAf Democratic theory and repu.
dates the Republican doctrine when he
declares, both by his words and acts, that
he has no right to interpose the arm of
the uation between the negro and his
prosecutors. As far as the Gulf States
20, the President of the United States is