The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-06
Hayes Southern Policy.
Its Practical Developeme It's.
The Administrator Arming for a War
With Blaine.

drama being now completed, 1t Is proper
to begin criticism Of the piece and note
the effect upon the audience. The net
result Of Hampton's visit to Washing
ton is to bring out In sharp relief two
facts which had hitherto remained q
hope in the minds OF honest men, and
a suspicion In the heads of Blaine and
his kind. Those two facts are
HAYES TIMIDITY.
T. Mr.. Hayes dares not risk the for
tunes of his administration upon the
sole support of the men from whose
hands he received the stolen Presi-
dency.
III. The bloody. shirt has been finally
folded up and laid away-out OF politics
for all time.
The settlement OF the South Carolina
case In favor OF Hampton and the re-
fusal of the Administrator to even sus-
tain Chamberlain in demanding the
as q compromise is really
finishing blow to what Is known as the
old War Radicalism of the North and
Its born ally, the carpet baggery and
niggerism of the South.
This having been accomplished, the
abatement Of the Packard nuisance In
Louisiana Is
MERE QUESTION OF TIME,
and the length Of time depends largely
Oh the behavior OF the Louisiana Con-
servatives themselves. And here let me
digress little: The events In Washing
ton Immediately following the inaugu-
ration Of Hayes showed that the Louis
lana Conservatives were not, in the full
senseof the term, a homogeneous body.
FACTIONS OF LOUISIANA DEMOCRATS.
They were represented here by
two or three factions which al
ternately bored and distracted the
President and members OF the
Cabinet with various advices, which,
though generally in unison as to the
State government, were 80 obviously at
odds, IL rot at utter war with each other,
respecting matters Of national import,
such as the Senatorship, that the effect
OF the whole upon the Presidential mind
was baneful. Had Louisiana come here
with q united front, demanding simply
Nichols, Nichols, and nothing else, as
South Carolina came with her slogan Of
!" Hampton, and no compromise had
the men who came here representing
Louisiana'S interests stood in one solid
phalanx, refusing to talk OF anything or
consider any question, either with Hayes
or with Foster, or with Matthews, until
Nichols was recognized and the troops
withdrawn, 1t Is most probable that the
Commission programme would have
died in the she'll.
WHY SOUTH CAROLINA IS FREE.
Had South Carolina been represented
at the White House by half dozen
heads OF factions, each intriguing on its
own hook for local patronage, and In
view Of the Senatorial aspirations Of in
diyiduals, In all probability that State
would now be like Louisiana, under
vivisection at the hands Of a commits
sion.
These are no idle speculations. They
are facts, and any member Of the regu-
lar Congressional delegation from Lou
isiana will verify them and give besides
names, dates and circumstances, which
have omitted to give.
THE PRESIDENT WANTED COMPROMISE.
The President and his advisers would
have been glad If they could have
cajoled South Carolina into compro-
mise, whereby the slender Republican
in the Senate should be rein
forced, Blaine pacified and Chamber
lain provided for.
But at their very first interview with
Hampton they discovered that he was
master Of the situation; that he knew
1t, and that be was too much of man
to enter into any compromise where he
had everything to give and nothing to
gain.
CHAMBERLAIN PROTEST.
Hence notice was served on Chamber
lain that nothing could be done for him.
When he got this cold shoulder, Cham
berlain sat down with Blaine looking
over his shoulder and with a copy of
Wendell Philips latest TRADE before
him, to draw up protest. The pro-
test was drawn up with pen dipped in
written on paper adorned with the
skull and X-bones, monogram of that
ancient political pharmacy, the "Anti-
Slavery Club Of Boston," It is fiery
document. Among the things which it
recites is. that but for the efforts of
the electoral vote of South
Carolina would never have been cast for
Hayes! Now Hayes knows better than
that. He knows that the men who cast
the electoral vote Of South Carolina for
him were those Democrats who, having
surrendered when they voted for the
Electoral bill, enlisted in his ranks
when they voted against dilatory tac-
tics. At least Hayes thinks this is the
anu, WneCneT he auOpCS Gnat
theory out Of gratitude to his enemies
who came to his support in the hour of
trial or for the sake of convenience at
getting rid Of Chamberlain, the i'm
pelling cause is Of little consequence so
long as the effect is happy.
THE NORTHERN PEOPLE TIRED OF BLAINE's
IMPUDENCE.
This effect, which call happy, is the
final break of Hayes away from the
traditions which the old Radicals have
sought to bulldoze him with; his con-
elusive defiance to the system OF terror
ism which Blaine inaugurated in the
Senate when he brandished aloft the
pardon, the.Matthews letter
to Chamb mberlain, and dared any Senator
to stand sponsor for it. And right here,
let me say, by way Of assurance to that
enormous majority Of The populace who
are tired OF Blaine's air and sick OF his
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