Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-03-15

blacks as well as whites. If his Cab
met is composed of men in heart OPP
posed to negro suffrage can he peace
fully carry out the underlying princi.
pie that made him President? Such
reasoning, and it is just reasoning,
leads to the conclusion that the poll
cy of taking upon your vessel crew
that would rejoice in sinking your ship
is bad. Has Mr.. Hayes done this !?
We believe it is the general impress.
sion that he has has chosen as one
of his advisors, man who opposed
his election and is opposed to the Re-
publican party in all the measures
which distinguish it from the Demo-
or attic party. 1t is general feeling.
too, that fight between parties is a
fight for spells, and Hayes has given
the beadship of that department
which makes more appointments to
Office than all the others put together,
to Democrat This looks bad but
it is not as bad as it looks. Turn to
first page of this paper and read the
biographical sketch of this Democrat.
The intelligent reader will soon con-
clude that David NJ Key is very good
material to make a Republican of. He
was Confederate soldier, it is true.
but there were times down South
when man may have been excusable
for being a Confederate The white
people of the South are of the same
blood as the white people of the
North. The best and most intelligent
people OF the North were found, from
its first formation, in the Republican
party. The best and most intelligent
men of the South from that date OPP
posed the Republican party. It these
intelligent men had been like situated
they would have belonged to the
same party. Had our Abohshnists
been planted in Dixie they would
have grown up chivalrous Fire. eaters,
Southern extremists raised and edu-
Gated in the North would be uncom-
promising Radicals. If, then, these
extremes are made to meet, they may
easily harmonic. But the extremes
will not meet. David M. Key is not
an extremist. We are apt to forget
that after Lincoln's election. when the
southern states were holding elections
and conventions to take themselves
out of the Union, nearly all of them
voted to stay in. We overlook the
fact that the majority were driven by
the impetsous hot-heads and joined
in dissolution and war they did not
want. They were made follow ers
then and have never dared to be lead
ers since. Yet that element is still
there. In Tennessee it is strong, but
not strong enough to battle with its
old foe whom it followed into war. In
the last election this element in some
| districts made nominations and in one
or two instances in that State elected
Congressman. They called them sell
yes Democrats, it is true, and ON the
stump boosted of doing more in the
Confederate battle than the other
wing of the party. 1t was this ele-
meni that nominated Key, and near
iy elected him to the United States
Senate against the nominee of the
regular, Fire-eating Democracy.
Hayes has evidently been studying
this element. He sees that naturally
they are Republicans. If they will
only unite IN the different states of
the South as they did when they yot-
cd not to GO out Of the Union, they
may form parties strong enough to
carry halt of the southern states, by
white votes. Then the old slave mas
ters will have with them the mass OF
the ignorant and dependent negro
voters. Ignorance there will vote as
it does in the North. 1t flows down
| hill like water, and its level is not in
the Republican party. Thus we see a
way that Mr. Hayes's singular policy
may succeed. We have misgiyings
but not opposition. An advertised
policy of Cancellation is bad omen.
They who are to be conciliated will
feel that the party in power is going
over to hem,and they, therefore need
10 give up nothing. Members OF the
party holding out the olive, become to
some extent yexed and we hear their
complaints. Cancellation has been
Grants policy. His appointments
from tho Democratic party number in
thousands. Even one of his Cabinet
was always Democrat until appoint.
ed to that position. He was a war
Democrat, it is true, but he voted the
the Democratic ticket That was
Belknap. Grant gave appointments
to Mosby and to Longstreet and sent
Gushing to Spain. This class OF ap-
pointments, together with his Soon
citation" by giving up some of the
Southern states to Southern violence,
is what broke down bis administra.
ton. His policy has demonstrated
what should have been known long
ago the South wants master, 1t
is a spoiled child and will never be
have itself until It kno US it is in SUBJ
lection. If Hayes would to-day tele-