The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1877-06-21

at the late election cost many lives and was
the product of the most infamous and
damning Of crimes, The murders and crimes
have been proved and the blood-stained ma
iority set aside by lawful process.
In discussing the action Of the Admin
istratiOn In this connection, Mr.. Morton
says it was taken under assurances that
the rights of all classes should be re-
spected, and the State governments ad-
ministered for the equal benefit of all. |
1t was further urged, that as all other /
Southern States had, one by one, passed |
under Democratic control, 1t was evil /
IDENTIFY only a question Of time when |
these two States should follow. While |
this Is spoken of as a "repulsive argu- |
men" 1t is accepted as " unfortunately
too true" In this connection the action /.
Of the Presidentis referred to as follows:
President Hayes but accepted the situation /.
as 1t was bequeathed him on the 4th Of
March. The Republican Governments of |
Louisiana and South Carolina could only be 1
kept IN place by the army. What might 1
have been the result had President Grant I
promptly rec, gnized the Packard and Cham |
berlaln Governments in January, and de- I
clared his purpose to sustain them by force, /
II is not now necessary 10 discuss. But he did /
nOtdo so, and on the 4tl Of March, when Mr.. I
Hayes came into power, ne found these Gov |
ernments existing only in name, surrounded /
by enemies, living only from day to day by /.
the presence and protection OF United States /
troops. Would 1t have been in the power Of |
the President to maintain them by. the |
armyf A Democratic House Of Represen-
tatiYes recently withheld appropriations for |
the support Of the army in order that il I
should not be used in the Southern States, |
It was clearly unconstitutional to put such
condition to the bill, but it did, and was
likely to do 1t again at the extra session thus I
made necessary. The majority of the House, /
made up Of Southern Democrats, late Con-
federates, and desperately in earnest, and
Northern Democrats wholly subservient,
thus threatened the existence of the army,
and had ditin their power to destroy it. The
question was, should the President Yield TO
the inevitable or proceed only to inevitable
death.
Mr.. Morton then discusses the prob
able result Of the renewal of the ques-
ton Of army appropriation in the new
House. He says, there are and have
been for many years Republicans in the
North who have deprecated the use of
the army to support Republican State
Governments in the South :" and then
goes on to cite the small and doubtful
Republican majority in the Senate,
which fact, with the action Of that body
at the last session in the Kellogg case, Is
recognized as suggestive Of probable
defeat In any attempt IN that body to re-
sist the enCroachment of the House.
While not doubling the legal right Of
the President to recognize the Packard
Government and support it by arbitrary
power, he frankly says that '' the under
taking would have been futile, and the
failure disastrous" With a divided
public opinion in his own party" says
the letter, '' and both Houses Of Congress
against him, ne would have failed in the
end" In further support Of this view,
Mr.. Morton says:
We have had so much talk about con-
cillatiOn and fraternity that many we'll
meaning people in Jhe North had come to
believe thaJ ali that Was necessary to secure
tranquility and equal rights In the South,
was TO Withdraw the army, the Republicans
to abandon the struggle and commit the
| Government 70 the white Democrats of those
states. The painful truth is, that political
murders IN the South have ceased to be
shocking, and are readily justified by ener-
geuc talk about carpet-baggers, scalaWags
I and Radical thieves.
On the question of President Hayes's
purposes and intentions concerning the
Republican party, Senator Morton says:
l do not believe that President Hayes in
tends TO destroy the Republican party and
attempt the erection OF a new one On its
ruins. l believe IN his patriotism and high
/ integrity, in his undivided purpose 70 make
/ the Administration a beuehcsuce 70 the
/ county. The language Of his inaugural was
strong and beautiful, and the declaration Of
his devotion to the great doctrines Of human
rights which constitute the foundation Of
the Republican party, lett nothing to be
added or desired. he began the conduct OF
/ national affairs under circumstances Of
I extraordinary difficulty the minds Of men
we're greatly divided as to what should be
done, while all were agreed that something
should be done, that things could not long
/ 20 on as they were. He marked out ms
course and addressed himself to 1t with un-
daunted courage. Mr.. Hayes was elected as
| a Republican, and l believe be will be a Re-
publican President; not in a mere partisan
1 way, but IN the sense OF devotion TO kepub-
| lican principles, and the maintenance OF the
/ Republican organization by placing the
| political power in the hands Of worthy
/ and qualified Republicans. Political prln-
! ciples do not execute themselves they re-
/ politics is as necessary as in war. Great
numbers of the same way Of thinking but
acting without concert, are as helpless as an
unOrganized multitude IN the presence Of
disciplined army. IPresentthe Republican
parry as a sound and Indispensable lnstru-
mentality for carrying into operations the
true principles Of government and human
rights.
1t is difficult to see how the good faith
of the President, as a Republican, could
be more fully asserted. Of the success |
of the work Of reconstruction, 1t is said
that whatever failure there may be IN
that respect, is due to earned and muir
derous organizations; by terrorism and
prescriptions, the most wicked and cruel
of the age; and if the Democratic as
surances to President Hayes, in LOuisi-
ana and elsewhere, Of protection and
equal rights, are executed in good faith,
the system will not be a failure, but
grand success extOrted from itsenemles."
Whether OF not such be the result time
alone can determine.
Mr.. Morton thinks that the great
purpose now of the Southern people is
to recover from the losses inflicted by
the rebellion" to which end they will
direct every effort and subordinate every
other purpose. Regarding the Northern
Democracy as more likely than the Re
publicans to cooperate in such palicy,
be thinks that interest will operate as a
powerful bond to bind that party to-
gether; in other words, that Democracy
now, as in the days OF Jackson to use
Mr.. Calhoun's lsnguage-will be held
together by the cohesive power Of public
plunder." Mr.. Morton thinks that Mr..
Tlden's letter on the subject of Rebel
claims, published just before the cleo /
ton, operated against him at the polls, /
and still more in Congress during the 1
count; and that "uO Democratic candt- /
date will repeat the bluudeI." Mr.. NJ. /
thinks slaves will in time come 10 take I.
their place with other war losses. Re /
ferring to the suggestion Of a recOnstruc-
ton of parties, he says:
The Republican party was never more /
necessary TO the nation than it is to-day. .
All talk about laying down the Republican .
organization to take up new one with new
title, into which old COnfederates may enter
without WOunding their suscePuollltes,
would be criminal if it we're not suprsmely .
silly. Toe proposition thatthe party which
saved the nation, and which embOdles IN It's I
creed the mortal principles on which 1t
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