The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-06-01

@t.oops would not be used in the South
and that the ReE ublican Majority in
the Senate, upon the Southean ques-
ton was but nominal if it existed at
all"
He then gives the result Of his judg-
ment thus:
"While in my Judgment it was clear
J ly right for the President under tie
Constitution TO recognize tue PscSard
government and support It by military
power. the undertaking Tonld have
been futile and the failure disastrous
with divided public opinion and both
houses Of Congress against him he
would have failed in the end.
While we do not altogether agree
with the Senator ip his Judgment oi
what would have been the result had
the new President attempted 70 sus'
tain Packard and Chamberlain, we can
not but respect his conclusion, as the
result OF honest conviction, reached
by the following reasoning:
1.-THE Republican governments ot
South Carolina could only be kept in
place by the army. What might have
been the result had President Grant
promptly recognized the Packard and
Chamberlain governments in January
and declared his purpose to sustain
them by force it is not now necessary
to discuss. But he did not do so, and
on the Fourth of March, when Mr
Hayes came into power, lie foun d
these governments existing only In
name, surrounded by enemies, Lying
only from day to day By the presence
of United States troops. Would it
have been iD the power of the Presl-
dent to maintain them by the army
A Democratic House of Representa-
tues recently withheld appropriations
for the support of the army except on
condition that it should not be used in
the Southern States. 1t was clearly
unconstitutional to put such condition
to the bill, but it did. and was likely
to do it again at .he extra session thus
ma2e necessary. The majority OF the
House, made of Southern Democrats,
late Confederates, and desperately in
earnest, and Northern Democrats
wholly subservient, thus threatened
the existence of the army, and had it
in their power to destroy it. The
question was should the President
yield to the inevitable, or proceed only
to inevitable defeat?"
His faith in tine South, as before in.
tim ated, is not strong, ard therefore
he advises that there be no divisions
among Republicans at the North, say.
ing;
LAS the Democracy have acquired
a solid South by force, the Republi
cans should acquire solid North 10y
their vigilance and the eternal justice
of their cause. Northern Republicans
are now admouished that they can
endure no divisions that will endanger
their success. Should the North b.
unhappy discords be divided and thu.
fall prey TO the solid Confederate
South, the Rebellion will have been
suppressed in vain, the fruits of the
war will be lost, and our last condition
worse than the first"
The Senator foresees great perils to
the country unless the Republican
party is sustained, and in this we
think lie is right; but the policy OF
rather the reasons for it, which he ad
vocates. will hardly commend them
selves TO the body Of the party, when
they remember the old cry of section
alism by which we were assailed in 1856
and 1860. A united North on one
platform, and a united South on
another, means just the peril which he
fears. Better divided North and a
divided South, with a government
that means to be obeyed, that the re-
ascending of one section of the union
on purely sectional grounds.