The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-05-31
THE NEW POLICY.
BIZ THE EDITOR.

the Bucyrus Journal.
You think it is no argument to state
that the President is worried. Perhaps
not only stated this fact in order to
show that there was serious opposition
to his policy. He dared not call the ex-
ira session of Congress until October.
hoping that something might turn up in
the meantime His rebel Postmaster
General recently wrote to a Southern
Democrat urging that as the President
was doing so much for the rebels, they
ought to sustain him, or he would have
to make friends and supporters by ap-
pointing Northern Republicans instead
of Southern Democrats. And this is
Civil Service Reforml
You think the President has been sus-
tanned because Cincinnati elected Re.
publican Mayor You omit to state that
there were three tickets, and that the
Republican ticket was in the minority.
If you want to make test, let the Re
publican State Convention indorse the
policy" and put Charles Foster on the
ticket, and if that ticket be not beaten
forty thousand in the State, will never
make another political prediction.
You say Hayes did not make radical
Republican speech in Jackson, August A.
1875. say he did. ! heard him. You
did not. / am speaking what | know
you are talking about something you
know nothing about. The speech was
oItAA,,uh NJ TnnVnia of
the Commercial, and Mr.. Furay, then OF
the Gazette, were both present.
Edward D. Mansfield writes to the
Chicago Inter Ocean as follows:
The following is an extract from a po
litical speech the President delivered III
Cincincinnati, September Z, 1866:
LET us examine briefly the rebel plan
of dealing with the people of the rebel
lious States. 1t has the support, in all
its parts, of men who, during the war
were peace men at the North and rebel-
at the South. 1t has the advantage OF
being consistent with itself and with the
previous history of its authors and
friends. According to it, the rebels are
hereafter to be treated in the same man
ner as if they had remained loyal. The
rebellious States are to be represented ~
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All appointments in the army
in the navy, and in the civil service
are to be made from men who were reb
els on the same terms as from
men who were loyal. The people and
Governments in those States are to be
subjected to no other interference or con.
troll from the military or other depart
ments of the General Government than
exists in those States which remained
loyal Loyal white men and loyal color
ed men are to be protected in those
States by State laws, executed by State
authorities, as if they were in Loyal
States. The Union party objects to this
plan because it is wrong IN principle.
wrong in its details, and fatally wrong as
precedent and example for the future
1t treats treason as no crime. 1t restores
to political honor and power in the Gov
ernment Of the Nation men who have
spent the best part of their lives in plot
ting the overthrow of that Government.
and who for more than four years levied
public war against the United States Ii
allows Union men in the South, who
have risked all. and many of whom have
lost all but life in upholding the Union
cause to be excluded from everv office
State and National, and in many instan-
ces to be banished from the States they
SO faithfully labored to sfve. 1t aban.
dons the 100000 of loyal colored peo
pie who lost the protection which own
ers give their property to such treat
ment as the ruffian class of the South.
educated in the barbarism of slavery and
the atrocities of the rebellion, may
choose to give them. 1t leaves the obll-
CATION Of the Nation to her creditors,
and to the MANNED soldiers and to the
widows and orphans of the war, to be
fulfilled by men who hate the cause in
which those obligations were incurred
The rebls say Peace, harmony, and re-
stored Union you can have by giving up
your demands and yielding to the re
quirements of the South The Seward
johnson party advises the people, for the
sake of peace and Union. to submit to
this demand. We are prepared to make
great sacrifices in the future as in the
past for the sake of peace and for the
sake of Union; but submission to what is
wrong can never be the foundation of
real peace or a lasting Union"
If such were President Hayes honest
Opinions then, how does he reconcile
them to his present course2
He took substantially the same ground
in his speech at this place, August g.
1875.
You quote Redfeld to show that there
was bad and corrupt Government in
South Carolina, and with Italics challenge
me to state whether the President did
wrong in not supporting such Govern
ment.
How does this new policy propose to
get rid OF this bad Government By ar.
gument, to induce voters to elect good
men? That is the way we attempt to
do in the North. That is not the way
the policy" proposes to get rid of cor
rupt Government. Let US quote Redfed
on this point:
What is now true of Georgia and Tex
as will hencelorth be true OF South Caro-.
lima This means that the colored vote
is to be suppressed here just as it has
been in those States. In a perfectly fair
election in Georgia, every man voting his
sentiments as they do in Ohio. as be.
tween Hayes and TIlden, Tilden's ma.
jority would not be over eight thousand.
Yet by the suppression of the black vote,
and forcing many to vote against their
choice, the Democratic majority was
swelled to over 81, ,0OOl And this will be
the result in South Carolina Part OF the
colored vote will be suppressed, and part
will be made to vote the way they don t
want to. You may look out for immense
Democratic gains" This State, which,
on "a fair election between the two parties,
without fear force, fraud, or purchase.
would give at least $4,000 Republican
majority, will be made to go for the De.
mocracy with great unanimity Wait
until the next election and see if it is