Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-31
THE PRESIDENTS SOUTHERN
POLICY.

anxiously striving to convince US that
the intimations held out by Stanley
Matthews, Charles Foster ana others
during the tendency Of the electoral |
count we're mere private opinions of |
those gentlemen and that they commit |
the President to nothing.
Meantime Gen. Augur has received |
instructions, as follows:
To GENERAL C. C. AUGUR, NEW ORLEANS
A commission will shortly visit LOUISE /
ana. In the meantime the President de- /
sires that the situation remain unchanged. |
Please report what changes in the siLua- |
ton, II any, have occurred since the close |
r. b. HAYES.
And, what in our estimation is much
more ominous, the soi disant Louisiana
Senator Kellogg,who is Packard agent
in Washington, has telegraphed to his
employer to this effect:
WAsHINGToN. March 26.-To Governor s.
b. Puckdrk, NetO Orleans President Hayes
said yesterday to Ellis and others, in the
presence of Congressman =, that Nichols
has no legal courts. His Supreme Court is
rendering judgments and entangling prop
erty when Its Judgments are entirely worth
less. w. p. X.
Moreover the the commission of IN
quiry hangs fire because so many ap-
pointees refuse to act; it leaks out in
reference to this, that its main destina-
ton is, not to enquire into the validity
of the election as effects the two claim
ants of the Governor Office, but as it
bears on the claims of men elected as
Senators and Representatives, so that
perhaps in the end Gen. Augur's duties
will be similar to those Of De Tobri-
and and tantamount to the seating of
bogus Legislature. All this is doubt
less adopted as a dire necessity occa-
stoned by the great need for Republican
| Senators in Congress, indeed it has
/ been long understood that the de-
lay in taking any decisive step was at
tributable to the purpose of intriguing
with Louisiana politicians so as to Sc
cure Republican majority in the State
Legislature and thereby three Repubil-
can Senators in Congress.
No wonder then that people are ask
ing where is the policy? What is it?
| When is it to loom on the horizon so
as to be visible to the naked eye? No
answer to these questions can possibly
be derived from official statements or
even from rumors in Washington
and the conclusion is forced upon us
that either there never was a policy
different from that which has for the
last ten years guided the Radical party
in dealing with the South, or the
President has abandoned it as imprac-
ticable in view of the opposition to it
within his own party, and perhaps in
view Of the utter ruin Of that party
which must follow if it is carried out.
A mere glance at the several points
of intelligence which We have detailed
above will make all this plain to the
feeblest intelligence. This renewed
talk about the statu quo for instance
so far from being a step in advance it
is step backwards. General Grant
had got beyond that, and had plainly
intimated to Governor Nichols that
be would no longer be restricted to
the statu quo and had even command
ed the removal of the troops, though
that command of his was tempered
with by the late Secretary of War
when it was too late for Grant to COR
rect the error. The Statt quo! Either
Mr.. Hayes is a much worse man than
Gen. Grant, or he must be inconceiva-
bly, stupid to imagine that things can
be maintained as they are in Louisi-
ana, for an indefinite length of time
without an explosion if he is a knave
he desires that explosion, as a means
of cutting short his complications with
the sword; if fool he may possibly
think that gun powder and Goals of fire
can be harmlessly mixed up together
for an indefinite length of time until
his precious intrigues shall have been
productive of the Radical Senators in
the coming Congress.
But then what becomes of his high
sounding words about the American
flag waving over not provinces but
States.
If Louisiana is 4 sovereign State
what business have his troops balanc-
ing the claims of two conflicting claim
ants as Governor What business
has he giving an opinion upon the
validity of the Supreme Court of
Louisiana? His presumption is just
as great though notquite so outspoken
as Grants was when he said Damn
the Supreme Court" Moreover, if
State rights are to be his guide, what
has he to do with the Legislature of
Louisiana, any more than the parlia-
ment of England? Either Mr.. Hayes
never did know his own mind or he
has been turned round and round so
by persons who have been talking with
him, that he has become dizzy with it
! duu HAS IOESOIl6u ~udL nc ulu mean.
He may or may not have intended to
treat the Southern States as enjoying
the same status as that claimed by the
Northern; but if he ever did he has
been induced to abandon it; he may
have hoped to be the President of the
whole nation, but he has already sunk
/ to the position of Grant as the champion
of the party which l represent"
/ During the late Presidential contest,
when the opinions and intentions and
private character of Mr.. Hayes were
insisted on as consideration to dis
arm Democratic animosity, it was we'll
replied by Democratic speakers and
the Democratic press, that Mr.. Hayes
opinions were nothing, for if elected
by the Republican party his policy
would be not what he might wish, but
what would be forced upon him by
those who made him President: but
even we ourselves did not realize how
soon this would be made plain but
then we did not at that time anticipate
the weakness which his pOlicy would