The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-26
WAsHINoToN, April IA, 1877.

ioin the Democratic Party.
WASHINGTON, April IA, 1877.
DEAR SIR-You ask me what think
of President Hayes, and his policy, and
what the colored voters of your State,
and the othes Gulf States, should do, ii
the National Administration abandona
.bem2
shall answer you fully and frankly ;
and, as these questions are constantly
asked, shall print my reply, and grant
you the liberty to use 1t in any way you
please.
president Hayes Is the wiuest and
abest statesman Of the day"-tiat as,
his partisans aud the Office seekers saw
80. They have unanimously voted that
he is-a great statesman, an American
Richelieu 0f seo1hd Bismarck; provi-
dentially sent to recement the Union
with the milk of human kindness. Hin-
tory shows that God h. ID veto power over
all such verdicts, and that his ancient
servant, Time, always records His opin-
ion and not that Of the voice of the rsr-
asites. And Time, think, will write 1t
down that Hayes was man of good in
tentions, as it has already recorded that
Hell is paved with good intentions -
that he was a man of moderate inteiIec.
fnnl capacity, with just frmness enough,
and brains enough, to commit political
rGricide-to destroy the party that in
vented him that his vanity was SO great
and his grasp of contemporary tenden-
ces so feeble that he founded his policy
not on social facts and organized forces
but on air-woven sentiments and peda-
gogical theories-unlike the epoch max
irS 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 hns shown, the
greatest ills that have come to man,
through Governments, have been inhic-
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 rs 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 70 "save Ohio"-that
is, to elect Hayes as Governor-that
Grant was Induced, against his own iudg-
troops to protect the Republicans of Mis-
sissippi7 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,
Niehei!s, g the lawfully elected IepTe-
sentatives of the Republican voters of
South Carolina and Louisiana.
Ono wOrd coputnDt1v In .Havoai n, o,,&t,
reveals his character. That word is
Policy. 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 fell
from the Southern Democratic table.
Open yeur eyes, my friend, and dare
70 see the truth, even if it makes You
sick at heart For the truth will set you
tree from partisan bondage-a great boo i.
even if the price be SO great. I 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 emiasa.
ries Of South Carolina and Mississippi
on the unsullied soil of Kansas! First,
resisting slavery as aggressor; then,
smiting slavery as traitor; then, making
OF chattels black men, and Of black men
American citizens-;ss record is shin.
ing trail of glory. It's battle-cry was
equal rights, and it was noble defender
OF tie faith. And now? Hayes surren-
dem 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.
ne is President to-day by the votes of
the South Carolina and Louisiana ne.
stces.. by their unreasoning seif.sacri-
nee, 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-
cqtors! Az the perfumes of Arabia will
meyer syet, q this perady most foul.
All the pleading tongues of men aud of
oifice-holders will never keep down this
spectral Banquo-truth That Packard,
ahds Chamberlain, and Hayes are each
and all and equally, the rightful or the
fraudulent rulers of the people who elec-
"a them by the same vote cn the same
cay and by thesamo party.
i, Don't be deceived by what Hayes says.
hulers are men Of deeds. His acts speak
LOT him. He appointed q .colored man
70 au Office, and then made haste &c aban-
aon colored State. Frederick Douglass
gela post worth 81, 900 year, and the
acs Is trumpeted rs if it were o decisive
proof OF Hayes friendship for the negro
Cas II 1t were "new departure" Why,
uiant appointed Bassett--a colored man
to $4,000 nligsionr-to Hayti; an.
oIner to the lucrative post of Liberia
ane gtlll another TO consulate in Spain,
SSeaides giving black men throughout the
south honorable positions by the score.
asyes says, or is reported to have said,
s,i, 'hat II the rebels do nos act in good
1Il.h hesyill soon change his policy"
100 rs Doys talk, or worse. How can
Nc cnange his policy after he yields his
fo@erY As soon as South Carolina and
neuiSlana are abandoned, Hayes is as
po@erlesa to aelp the Republicans as any
puynte citizen. "Who will care for Lo-
gaI," then3 The Republican platform
u,;solarss ,;s that the United States is a, me-
u9n, not a slehgue; but the Democrats
asuopted that article when they insisted
~. ;iias congress should go behindth Flor
,Ia returns, thereby abandoning their
,h ,thIsofy OF State Rights and Hayes adopts
S;. :n cAs;c::: Democratic tnuUry aud Iupu-
Jnes JJ,a,es the Republican dootrine when he
Itee,areS, both by his words aud acts, tha.
uS has M riohf tks s,,kn,,>..a A. s.,,,, "a