The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-07-07
HAYES and the South.


limited States, if we are to judge|
from the expressions contained
lin those journals which we sup.
/ hose are tie highways to the pub
slic ortE,e expression of his feelings
4 land wishes, does not like the
treatment he has received from
! the Southern people, "atter,"as hci
|choses to express it, "havins doncl
so much to relieve them Of bad
government
From this we are TO infer, that
i the President, dr"t"cto, labored III |
der the impression that the South |
j ern people would become traitors
q to their principles and convictions.
ssimply because justice had been
edone them. The New York Times,
! IAN able and intensely Republican
journal, has this to say in regard
j to Hayes sad disappointment:
are we to conclude that the Prcsi !
8dcnt is already in some particulars
disappointed? \ consciousness of the
I purity of his motives, and a natural
Sincination to accept assurances ~
Sharmony with a predetermined pur-
spose, may nave led him to expect
sbetter things from the South than
1have yet been brought to light. We
must believe him when lie disclaims
all thought of forming new party.
: Thc same cannot lie affirmed of those
whom he has gathered around him
i and who share with him the rcspon'
s sibilities of power. There were, I'm,
{ loubtedly. vague expectations OF
: support from quarters previously
$ hostile, and now and then we heard
!, of dreams of Wing resurrection,
with a reconstruction of Southern part,
y les as it's immediate result. In a
modified form these anticipations may
have entered the mind Of the Presl
= dent and confirmed him in what at
i amy rate looked like indifference tc
: the feelings and wishes Of the Repub
licau majority. Having risen above
the level of party in his eagerness tc
- settle the quarrels which endangered
the peace Of two Southern States, il
was not unnatural for him to assume
THAT they who were to profit by his
! plan, and with friendly profession:
urged him forward to its consnmma
dtion, woull in tnrn emancipate them
sselves from tie bondage of the Demo
cracy. From this source he may have
hoped to derive, not the elements fo1
forming a third party, but such in
| huences as wonld compensate tor tn
affirmation of Southern Republican
and impart to the Republican Part,
in the South more vitality than !
had possessed. If Mr.. Hayes enter
|taincd hopes Of this nature we cal
l. readily comprehend the feeling whicl
has supcrvened. 1t is not the fee!'n!
incident to failure, for Mr.. Haye
insists as confidently as ever tia
: what he has done will be vindicate
:, by it's consequences. Bnt the assumI
ton on which he proceeded has part
tally broken down. He receives fin
words from the Sonth, but little c
none of the tangible help which
his position is most required. He
promised votes in Congress as agaln'
disaffected Radicals, but not vol
is rendered him as against the Demo
cracy in any contest of parties. l
i this extent, at least, he experience
disappointment.
T.. We had no idea that Mr.. Hay
Is and his friends had gone so far
:, that. The Southern people hay
10 certainly given evidence to tt
:' world as being loyal to sentimer
in and steadfast to political prime
: pie, even under the most adver
'e circumstances. They owe not
" ing to the Republican party-n
a. aeven gratitude of the cOmmone
-, kind, for that party has been t
,h[ bitter enemy Of every cherish
a feeling Of our civilization; h
- robbed and insultcd our perso
OF j. and our liberty. Surely, n
er Hayes could not expect that
~ should abandon our convictio
es because he was forced by a co
H. bination of circumstances, broue
Vel on by the villainous acts of t
ge party Of which he is q member,
I e. do us that justice we have 10
in claimed we were cntitlcd to, a
IN. for which we battlcd for sixtt
,rs years at q terrible cost.
udM The n. Y. Times is in ignoral
It's of the material which cOmp0
ct ct, that Southern Republican PAL
,at whose alienation it seems to
| me greet with so much anglish-f
|ltss to this ignorance must also
his added the criminal mistake
IS; makes in Judging Southern cl
On acter.. These Southern Repu
'us cans are men of alien birth, cl
' '.as acter, and blood, or they are
4 al those native born who from 81
and larity of minb naturally ASST
W. lated with the horde that c.
of down under the sheen of