The daily gazette., 1877-03-27
Hayesisns in fuN .Fyo,Oer.

credulous Southern Senators and Re-
presentatives who have been dancing
attendance at the White House since
the Inauguration, and accepting the
cheap and canting professions OF
Hayes as sincere, were brought to a re-
alizing sense of the deception practised
upon them by the determination to
appoint a commission to proceed to
Louisiana, and thus postpone the solu-
ton OF the problem which has been so
thoroughly discussed In all its forms
since the November election.
This abrupt decision necessarily ex-
cited the surprise and indignation of
those who, as honorable men and ac-
customed to fair dealing. had in good
feith welcomed the assumed frankness
OF the Fraudulent President, and who
up to the hour Of the Cabinet meeting
on Wednesday fully believed in the
assurances that the troops would be
withdrawn. Their conviction was
strengthened by the declarations of
members of the Cabinet, confirming
the confidence which has now been ex.
ploded.
What can commission do in Louis
lana but bargain, il Nichslls and his
friends are weak enough, after this ex-
perience, 10 listen to overtures from
men whose acts may be repudiated at
washington, and which will certainly Y
be never ratified, unless the terms in.
volve practical surrender to the ADJ
ministration of the Government fairly
elected by the people of Louisiana +?
The author of this scheme is tho same
William A. Wheeler who, under the
name OF q compromise, deliberately
cheated them two years ago, which
fraud they submitted to for the sake Of
peace.
The miserable pretext that Hayes
wants information, when every argu-
ment ON both sides has been exhausted
and every fact bsariHg on the coptro-
versy has been brought out by inves,
legations of beth branches of Congress
ON the spot, is an insult to public in
telllgence. The commission is only a
trick to enable the keepers of Hayes
to mature their plans and to consum'
mate the villainly by which they ex-
poet to capture Louisiana absolutely.
The hopes which credulity nourish-
ed are thus blighted az with the blast
of sirocco. Business and enterprise,
which began to revive under the
promise of pacification, are again pro-
strated, and property is more paraly-
zed than ever before. because the out
look is cheerless and positively alarm
ing. This is not only true of Louis
lana, but OF the whole country, because
the old dispute is practically reopened,
and while sectional agitation continues
there can be no return to real or per-
manent prosperity.
1t is well that Hayes has shown his
hand thus early. and allowed the
people to see his true inwardness of
character. In every aspect he has
proved himself to be unworthy of
trust. Ii he believed in the policy
which he professed. then he has been
false to duty in not pursuing it boldly
to the end. If he has been driven from
it by the exactions of extreme leaders,
then he is a weak tool in their hands.
and deserving only of contempt. He
has already illustrated the truth of
Morton's maxim, that "a President is
what his party makes him.
1t is net to be expected that the peo-
pie of Louisiana will kiss the rod that
has smitten them so often, or enter in-
to alliance with an administration
which has began its career in treach-
cry to them, and to every pledge re-
lating to the withdrawal of the troops.
they have nothing to negotiate about.
Nichols is governor, and his au-
thority is not disputed in the State,
except by faction of corrupt car
pet-baggers in New Orleans, propped
up by the presence of federal force.
When Hayeshesitated to made good
his promises after entering the White
House, and sought frivolous excuses
for non-action, it was evident that he
either meditated treachery, or wanted
moral courage to execute the task of
so-callcd Cancellation" He has vacil-
lated from day to day and swung back
ward and forward, until his weak
ness has sought the present mode of
relief from vexatious pressure.
We are not disappointed in this
outcome, because, after y thorough
examination of Hayes's career, moth
| ing could be discovered in it which
attracted confidence or inspired ad-
miration. His last canvass for Cover
nor of Ohio, where he introduced re-
llgion as an element of the campaign
upon the most false and scandalous
pretext, showed him to be low and
unscrupulous demagogue, capable of
prostituting what most men hold sa-
cred, to serve the ends Of party and
personal ambition,
IfMr. Evarts, Mr.. ochurz, and Mr..
Kcy had the proper stuff in them, there
would be to-day three vacancies at
least in the Cabinet. They did far
more than encourage the belief that
the troops would be withdrawn, they
promised it on repeated occasions. And
now their pledge is broken, but they
hold on to office, and Mr.. Evarts, dip
lomatist, renews the assurance of his
distinguished consideration to all
doubters. Mr.. Schurz thinks the In
terror Department would suffer by his
absence, just as he is starting civil
service reform, and Mr.. Key holds
that a gentleman with bakers dozen
of children at So, 900 a year ought to
stick, without regard to the troubles
in Louisiana. Weknow at least where
to find John Sherman, for, with all his