The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-10-12
Triumph Of Dsreerati. ps:trias.

StS our views fully a tn blaNcS ana
his So-calIel southern policy"
Hayes not only got the Presidency To
which he was not entitled, but henow
claims credit for adopting policy FOR
which the Northern Democrats have
been struggling against fearful odds
ever since the termination OF the war.
Whilst VIC approve of all that Mr..
Havcs has done in reference TO Louis
lana, South Carolina and Florida, We
want To give the credit where it justly
beIongS--to the noble efforts made by
the Northern Democrats. Let amy
man who is disposed In give Hayes
the credit read what Scnat"rT'hurman
has To say:
Leaving this subject, | want to
congratulate you, my Democratic
friends, upon the success of Democracy
aud Democratic principles. VIC lost
the Presidency by the means To which
] referred, but although We lost the
officers. the cause for which we coz
tended has triumphCd in the most re-
markabIe manner. Applause.
What did We tell those Republicans
for ten long years since the close ofthe
war? What have /, in my humble
WAY, from this very spot, speaking
where I now speak, said to you year
after wear since 1860? Why, that il
YOU wanted peace and prosperity and
goodwill between all the people, white
and black. down South; if you wanted
quiet and order down there; if you
wanted that country 10 recover from
its depressed and almost destitute con-
dition, all YOU had TO do WAS 10 let the
Southern states govern themselves
as the Northern States govern them
selves, and il would all be right.
What did we hear in answer to this?
All, those Southern men can not he
trusted. so, The first thing was TO
give the ballot To the negroes in order
that the negroes under the dictation
of carpet-baggcra and supported hY the
army of the nited States, might gov
ern the whites. And from that time
forward, no matter how carpet-bag-
ycre plunlercd and consumed their
substance, no matter how much the
Republic and it, institutions were
brought into disrepurc, there wa- hut
one cry on the part of Republican
leaders in Or out of Congress, this II
necessary, for the white men down
there can not be trusted" We said
to them: Wherever they have been
trusted, instantly there il law and
order. When finally YOU trusted them
i'm Virginia, Virginia became az order
ly a. the State OF Ohio. When finally
YOU trusted them in North Carolina,
North Carolina became an orderly
Stale: aud il YOU will do by South
Carolina and Florida and Alabama and
Mississippi and Louisiana what you
have done 10y North Carolina and
Virginia and Tennessee, you viii have
just a. orderly governments down
there, Just III pcacCablc society down
there, Just a. perfect protection of the
rights of all men, white and black,
down there AZ they have in North
Carolina, Virginia or Ohio itself. They
wouldn't listen 10 us because the lead
rrS of that party knew full well that il
was not hy peace and prosperity i'll the
South that the Republican party was
to flourish: they knew full we'll that
the moment they were left to govern
themselves, as YOU in Ohio govern
yourselves, without the interference of
the Federal Government, without the
| interference of Federal bayOnets, that
moment the intelligent portion of the
people of the country would exercise
| tlIcir natural influence, and then there
would he all end tn carpet-bag govern
mcnt~ in the Southern States, then
! there would he AN end to the Republi-
can larty pretty much inthC Southern
states. That these men knew, and,
| therefore, they insisted upon the car
pct-lIag and bayOnet governments
| throughout the South. And ito YOU
| remember last wear what was the
staple of their speeches?
SWEET TALK BN RADICAL SPEAKERS.
Mr.. President Hayes now refers 10 a
resolution in the platform Of the Gin
| cinnati Convention, and to his letter
! of acceptance, az showing that he
! intended to be kind toward the people
! of the South. Did any body hear that
kind of talk from Republicans bcrc
| last fall when they were on the stump
| in Ohio? think We might offer re-
| ward for any man who heard that
| kind of sweet talk last year from q
| Nothing but denunciation OF the
| South. We heard it said, if you leave
| the Southern people to govern them
selves, and cspeciaIlyif the Democratic
party succeed, they will innict upon
| this country ten times "a much evil as
| the war itself did; that they would pile
| upon the country the Confederate war
| debt and make the Government pay a
| pension to every Confederate soldier
| and flood the Treasury with false
| claims,
Not only that, but that they would
| kill the negroes, put them down by the
bayonet, aud there would be no such
| thing as peace and security i'm the
J South anV more. And not only were
ftheSe things sounded abroad, but we
saw the bloody shirt held up to the
! gaze of the people all over the conti-
| nent; but not one word of this cOOing
| of the turtIe-tlove that we now hear
| TGrcat laughter
| WHAT THEY GOT AND WHAT WE GOT
That is the way it was. Very well
They succeeded in getting the Presi
dcncy. hut we succeeded in getting
our ideas of constitutional law and o
good sense and of humanity 80 strong
" into the minds of the people of thi'
country that even the Isadical Presi
dent was compelled, as soon as he
was scnted-sOmc people say before
llaughtCrl; but a. soon as he was seat
ed he was compelled 10 turn righ
around and do all that Sam TildeI
could have done IL Sam had been i'm
augurated in his stead Laughter, am
q voice "Good."1 Well, now, | Civ
him credit for doing it, and yet it il
little funny. it is not strange To So
the President sending down u set u
fellows there
TO sEDUCE PACKARD's NiGGERs
Away from his Legislature? rcnewe
Iaughter1, and 10y that means Oustin
Packard from being Governor q
Louisiana, when Packard got thou
| sand votes more than Hayes did
, | Laughter. Ain'tthat alittIc strange
and vet YOU have seen il. / have II
doubt but 1'iIdem would have done iu-
| the same in effect, but not i'm exact
|, the same way. Then what how
there would have been. Then yO
would have heard that tue Democrat
had turned out the lawfuiIv-eIccte
| Legislature and Il lawfully clcctc
| Governor. Now, then, let ne rt
mark that have no doubt there are
great many who think that that is
NOT EXACTLY THE FEAST
TO which they were invited. [Iaugi
. teri They don't understand it at al
j | And now Mr.. Packard may pack bac
| TO the State of Maine with his Carpe
bag, where lie came from, and h