The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-28
Mr.. HAYES without at the same time
aban andoning his natural and avowed
antagonism to that policy. Just how he

antagonism to that policy. just how he
can reconcile the two extremes thus
brought together will be puzzle to the
unsophnticated. If We were called upon
to select two men of tho Republican
party who would represent the antipodes
of radicalism We would place Mr.. HAYES
at ono extremity and Mr.. MoRToN at
the other. Upon all the leading ques-
tions of the day Mr.. HAYES has mani
fested disposition 10 compromise and
conciliate even to the extent of jeopsr-
dizing his own tenure of office and divid7
ing his party. Upon the very same
questions, wherever Mr.. MORTON
has been called 10 deal with them, he has
manifested even an unusually uncom-
promising spirit of hatred and dogma
tism towards his opponents. Even in
the very letter in question every position
he assumes and every measure he advo-
Gates is 10 direct and bitter opposition to
the policy of the Administration. New
ertheless he manages to sandwich q
glowing eulogy on the character of Mr..
HAYES with savage thrusts at measures
of his administration, and professions OF
accord with severest criticism and evi.
dent lack of confidence. What oppo.
sition could be more pronounced
against the action of the Ad-
min,stration IN regard to the COM
plicstions in Louisiana and South Caro-
lima than his statement of the results
which the policy of Mr.. HAYES in with
drawing the U. 8. troops. has brought
about:
1.-THE Republican governments Of Lou.
isisns and South Carolina have yielded
to force. They have gone down before
an armed minority, whose threats OF
future violeLce were guaranteed by q
long train of bloody deeds in the past
l regret that the real character OF the
transaction should be obscured in the
least by pretended Investigations or L e.
gotiations. Stripped of ali disguises and
pretensee, the simple fact ls that Packard
and Chamberlain were not able to main
tain themselves in authority, and the gov
ernment of the United States, IN the
exercise of its discretion, refused them
it's support. Their Legislature, finding
themselves deienseless, fell TO pieces, and
from their ruins, in part, new legisla-
lures have been constructed, whose
legality consists only In the fact that
they exist, and there are none 70 oppose
them. The law and the rights OF the ma.
iority have yielded to an armed and
aggressive minority. The Democratic
party in Louisiana, an undoubted minori-
/, possessing the most of the wealth,
arms and military experienced, we're de-
termined to govern, whatever 1t might
cost in the way of life. Their pretend
ed majority at the late election had
cost many lives, and was the product
of the most infamous and damnlng
of crimes. The murder aud erlmes
had been proved, and the blood stained
msiority set aside by lawful process.
The Administration decided that such a
case of insurrection and violence was
not presented as authorized the National
Government to intervene, and that the
contending parties must be lett to their
own strength and resources. 1t was ap.
psrently worked out through the pres.
ence of the Commission, and seemedto
take tho form of negotiation. Assur.
ances were given that the rights OF oil
classes should be protected, and the
Government administration for the
equal benefit of all. General
promise of this kind smonnt to little,
especially when left to the voluntary ex
ecution of q party which believes that
the colored man ought not to have poIiti.
cal rights-even personal freedom, and
who have never considered him part OF
the people. President Hayes was urged
TO give up Louisiana and South Carolina
at once, and was told it was only a
question of time; that at the next
election they would 60 as Mississippi,
Alabama and the other States had,
snd it would be better to give them
up at once. However repulsiVe this
argument, it was unfortunately too true.
The same crimes and violence which bad
wrenched Mississippi and Alabama from
the Republican party. and had 30 nearly
captured Louisiana and South Carolina,
would certainly succeed the next time.
This was an argument Of eIpediency-
not of right and justice. President Hayes
has but accepted the situation as II was
beoueathed to him on the 4th OF NJ arch.
Republican Governments IN Louisiana
and South Carolina could only be kept
in place by the army
We have in this review fair intims.
tion of what the policy Of the National
government towards the South would
have been and would continue to be If
Mr.. MORTON instead of Mr.. HAYES oc-
cupied the executive chair. And yet in
connection with this adverse criticism he
takes care to say in the next paragraph
that "Mr. HAYES was elected as Re-
publican, and l believe will be Repub-
lican President, not in mere partisan
wsy, but in the sense of devotion to Re-
publican principles, and the maintenance
of the Republican organization by plac-
ing political power in the hands OF
worthy and qualified Republicans"
Nothing that Mr.. morton has ever
written or spoken, perhaps, shows the
demagegue more completely than the
letter in question. We will not attempt