New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-24
the end may be very different from that which
we have prognosticated
RLrrERNESS OF SOIL.

BITTERNESS or SOUL.
The country learns with infinite regret that tie
Hon. l.. +. " ade of Ohio has had another attack
of indignation and bitterness of SOUL"
With a constitutional predisposition to attacks
OF this sort, which has been somewhat aggril-
waited by circumstances and his haoit OF
Thought he has been fortunate enough TO nave
escaped any very alarming outbreak since the
one he had during Mr.. Lincoln's admlnistra-
ton The utter inclpacity OF Mr.. Lincoln 10
administer the Government 10 the satisfaction
Of Mr. Wade at that time, brought on an at
tack of great violence in which his bitterness u
soul manifested itself in an eruption between
the nose and chin of the most alarming char'c-
ter At the time of the Andrew Johnson iii
parchment, when Mr.. Wade, as PRESIDENT pro
tenn. of the Senate, was acting 'ice-fresioeiV
and liable to be Mr.. Johnsons successor III
;be event of the latters convection, he Idu u
recurrence of bitterness OF soul when the I'LL
peachmcnt failed, and upon that occasion re-
purgtated vehcmently. One OF the delllslohs
that accompany this complaint IS tendency
IN mistake the regurgitatiOns OF sour stomach
for the genesis of a patriotic impulse or
The birth of a great purpose. From the begin
Ding of President Grants first term, however,
for eight years his soul was comparatively
sweet and his indignation did not rise. There
was something in the Southern policy OF
President Grant and its effects upon the
people the contemplation OF which seemed TO
saturate the soul of Mr.. Wade with sweetness.
lie was as saccharine as the Oyerscer Of
sugar plantation. He was soothed and
charmed with the aspect of the Southern
- I-nI ~ ,l,o tay lpetn
and paid the cost of being governed
by the noble colored man and adveGtur-
0us NoItherner. He saw the early friends OF
freedom mortgaging the Southern States with
a rapidity and zeal that would shortly dep0pu-
late that section, while they appropriated the
Offices, divided the revenue, developed the re-
sources of the country, and in general made
life burden to the native whites. lie viewed
with satisfaction the. operations OF the army III
iaSUTing to the Southern States republican
form OF government, accompanied by ReplD-
lean officials and he contemplated with PRIDE
.he noble array OF Senators and Congressman
which the administration policy produced. 1t
was a state 'Of things that cheercd him ami
made linn happy. lie hoped it would be Kept
III.
He has been disappointed. President Hayes
declines to pursue the policy of President
Grant. This notwithstanding he can see how
satisfactory that policy has been throughout
tie South how it has endcared the Federal
Government to the white people OF the South,
dcve!.,cd their resources, increased the circu-
lation of their State bonds, and made them so
cheap in the market as to be in the reach of
men in moderate circumstances given them
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they delight and Senators to whom
they constantly point with pride. Not
witiIstanding all these grand results of
the Grant policy, President Hayes has
abandoned it. This abandonment has affected
Mr.. Wade unplcasantiy, and brought on an
attack of bitterness Of soul" Some person
writing from Washington, under the nom de
p'Nne "U. II. Painter,' has drawn out from
him letter which has recently been made
public in which the symptoms arc very fully de-
yelOped. He says he supposed when President
Hayes was nominated at Cincinnati that he was
in accord with him (Wade) upon the Southern
question. 1t seems pity that Mr. Wade did
not read Gov. Iayes's letter of acceptance. That
would have undeccived him at once. He might
have had his bitterness of soul all the same, but
by this time he would have recovered from it.
He HOW says he has been deceived, be-
"trayed, and even Inundated" by the course
of the President to degree that he has not
the language to express. This shows how DIES.
perate his condition is. Heretofore his vocabu
larry has never been known to fail. 1t is quite
possible. however, that Mullett, who is re-
ported to have gone West, may have pre-
empted the vocabulary of the region in quar-
4. 4 all IN
more than the Door debtors oath available for or
binary use. In his letter to the per on who writes
under the nom de plume ~. IL. Painter,' Mr..
Wade says of President Hayes: During the
" first month of his administration we find him
closetcd with two of the worst and most
"magnant enemies of the colored lace that
" can be found in II that slave-cursed region,
"and there consulting with those malefactOrs
chow best he can put these cOlOrcd people
"under the iron heel of their most bitter en-
"emies and reduce them to condition in
"iiniey worse than before they were made
" free TO those who know that President
Hayes promised these Indicators to rec
ommend to the next Congress an apprO-
prIation, under the head of internal
improvements, for the purchase of iron
heels for this purpose, the above state
ment seems quite moderate. But Mr.. Wade
never exceeds the bounds of moderation. He
has 10 doubt that Hayes "meditatcs the de-
"structon of the party that elected him." He
will not accept the excuse that the President
"means well;" he says "hel is paved with
"iust such good intentionsr He seems to
speak with knowledge, not to say authority,
concerning the pavement referred to; 1t may
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