The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-13
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM AND THE
EMINENT sOH0RED PATRIOT.
a'e Must Follow the Laws of Nature nps
Take auis Own Level.

lspeoi@i correspondence NJ O. Demoeratl
| WhsHiNaToN, June 8. 1877
The eminent eolored patriot Is passing from
our gaze, but not like beautiful 1ream f,,
he dies hard and the scene of his dissolution
Is made lively by his lusty though futile
| K1CHs AT DESTINY
The experiment Of statesmanizine the rolorat,
| patriot began by those Congresses which Ent,
| Wade and Ihad Stevens used to own except
| such fragments as we're from time TO time
| purchased by the Credit Mobier COMPANY
| and other dealers in human cattIe-and car
| ried out by Grant, may fairly be said h, have
been deiinitivoy abandoned This is a start
| ling declaration but II is true and lis truth,
fullness will have grown into established his
| tory by the time Mr. Hayes greets his success.
sor In tho White House True there are still
occasional appointments Of negroes to office.
but II the policy Of this Administration be
| closely watched IL will be discovered that tho
design Is to let tho colored patriot
DOWN EASY:
to eliminate him from tho statesrnansl,p Of
tho period gradually; 10 render him less by
degrees, and beautifully less, so that when he
finally vanlshes entirely he will not be ntln IL,
miss himself, as it were.
The mission OF the Republican party for
the last decade has been 10 hold the eminent
colored patriot up by tho tail, and the concur
rent teaching Of all the Radical leaders ut the
North has been that tho white population of
tho South was barbarous race, which could
be civilized only through the refining agency
Of
NEGRO GOVERNMENT
The theory was that the Southern paope
must be robbed In order tJ ebastan
them, and to this end the earpet-bagaers
were sent down 10 develop the latent
colored talent for Iareeny. The troops were.
Of course, incidental 10 these operations. This
is plain, blunt description Of the old Radicay
policy toward the South; o compound Of
fanaticism and viIlainy, the like Of which has
never been seen In the past and the hideors-
ness Of which, in retrospect, will be its own
abundant remedy in the future
Well, this portion Of the mission Of the Re-
publican party is
PRACTICALLY ENDED
Mr.. Hayes and his advisers have quietly. but
firmly, concluded that, owing to the rapid in
crease In the specific gravity OF the eminent
colored patriot, viewed as dead weight. the
task Of holding him perpetually I'D by the
tail must be abandoned. The original propo-
sition Of the Radicals that the longer he was
thus hold nm the eboner he vzr,,Ia bo ati, s..
s.a,a tI,,,. ,,a,, $50, - =, VIZ w W
7'''h,' '''o"'', "t'7 iooiu ~ pe as ABSURD III
practice as it was paradoxical in theory, and
this Administration, taking one good, square
look ut the situation, concluded to
LET 60 OF THE TAIL
,,,a ,..,,o .,o ,..,,,,,..
- ~ -, ~ pf'V, ~. ~ o',,i'
'''oae II no ooo"'' aho Ii ne cousah T. 90 the
nav = " o',sD ~. 'n'ns. .,'na. a ~
do not mean 70 say that the hdfninlstra-
ZION proposes 70 turn lts back upon the man
nnd brother, or that the eminent colored pa
t triot Is 70 be kicked down the front steps.
= hat ~ III, tne Poliey' OIi the other hand, no
- =. 70 W ~ mt.tte, Will ulstihgulshed coHsiderh-
non ~ piInc16ek m a', on the recent occasion o.
.,is ,;sad u'' ,;t ~ VI" m ouSe. ne Us 70 pe ad-
Vi5eu s, Wlen cynctIhIhg tle situssaOn, 70 De
hg ~ s ehe liIntSs n, on bnls Isd mat
app'iftlllt ,or oilee, anu aii thaL sort OIL thing;
ana thcn tne anmiinllstTatlon, after bowling the
oo and annoint the 6tbar se1in., fp,aa,, Ta tbn
colored patriot Is to be s.froze ont as # we're.
so deicltely and by such beautiful degrees
that he will never
Kyow wu.r urrp,r t,r.
rr,,ar, l., %sa. ~ 49, a..a NJ. .'... f'4". ..
ing Ihe train Yesterday from thel South
brought down 70 our midst o large portion Of
IN inc m eminent coiored r patriotism of Louisiana,
~ mo tne pcrs1pns % ol n Dnnmont, senator stamps,
newman, Lewis ana some others Of lesser
note. ,Ihey came with blood In their eye and
linIneolaelX sought the chief executive
presence 70 use Inc words of one OF them,
Up gti9 cipe serDls reio 10 was piay1n nell
Wlo de Publkln party and rdey had KUN
up inyan 70 zee whuader WI Mr Hayes uns stood
d de importance ,sJ, Cd keepin up de or'nizatioD
oOWn SouI!
inquired touching the specific nature Of
WI" . '''',"'' "''0 0o ieH'ihs
"wo dat ;a ao e,,,,,,a - s.aa.ers .,.o ,u.
al, de hard wak r. d IN prn;pae yo', -; nss
We dnes a" 1ntn III Nv an p nn "i,ae haa ~ tay de
kiln, '''' :" W" '1'' ~ 7''H 0'
"While the Garnet. .haooere dl,tbo o+ea1;,yy
o,,n,nate eo va, ,p;oSpsiigss's uo the SVessn8'
1--WE dats da trnfs ysi,t g .ohi1o do oar
t.hagDera dnca 10 stcai;ni B.t data nnt da
Knit aoid hos1t ~ o,,d t'aa,a hag
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