The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-21
WHAT rs 1.-THE POLICY ?"

Our special from Washington this morning
states, that Republicans i'm both branches
Of Congress- are actively engaged In an ut
tempt 10 seeHfe sueh notifications ef the
policy OF the Administration as will enable
them to harmonize their party. We are
further informed that the President is so
anxious that these efforts shall succeed that
he is willing to concede everything, provided
no attacks are made upon his Southern,
policy
From this standpoint it becomes quite per-
\ tinent to inquire what 1.-THE Southern policy
Is.
Was 1t comprised in the order to withdraw
the troops from the capitols of Louisiana and
South Carolina Is it the appointment of
Anderson, Wells and their tools to Federal
offices, and Of a second class Kentucky poll
tician to the Supreme bench Or is it the
Republican combination to exclude from their
seats the Senators from South Carolina and
louisiana Or are all these component parts
OF the policyf
To the Administration and It's supporters
belong all the honor and glory Of the two
latter constituents of this most homogeneous
and extraordinary scheme of pacihcation.
No jealous aspirant for glory, no rival politi-
cal iuggler, no fellow cringing, terror-stricken
fraud, solicitous to seal the lips of his tools,
can rob the Administration Of the credit of
these two parts of the Southern policy.
Nor need our worthy, wise and most
honorable President fear we think that
his Southern policy in these respects will
prove any obstacle to q cordial reconcila-
ton between himself and the Republican
chiefs In the Senate. Indeed, we apprehend
that the reconciliation has been already con-
summated; that the love feast has been alrea-
dy celebrated; that Conkling and Blaine and
Hayes have fallen into each others arms and
wept, aud that the scene was as tender and af-
fecting as that previous one in which the
President printed the paroxysmal kiss upon
the stricken Mortons lips.
The first sign of this holy reunion our cor
respondent has seen. A movement is on foot,
he tells US, in the same dispatch which informs
us of the reconciliation, on the part of the
Republicans to reopen Pnchbacks contest for
the seat claimed by Mr.. Eustis, and the de-
partNre of that saddle-colored agitator for
Washington confirms the statement.
So much then for the Southern policy so far
devisement and conduct of it to the Presi-
dent and his friends. But if Mr.. Hayes re-
fers to the withdrawal of the troops from
New Orleans and Columbia, the restoration
Of legimate government in Louisiana and
South Carolina, and the emancipation of the
people of those States from the cruel and in
famous despotism of carpet-baggery and ne
groism. as his Southern policy, and is assum-
ing. to treat with the surly and belliger-
emit leaders of his party upon that PROPOSE
ton, the country with one voice should pro-
test.
II there is any man illustrious in the Re-
publican party entitled to the credit of end
ing the rule of the bayonet in this State and
South Carolina, that man is Gen. Grant. He
issued the first order for the withdrawal OF
1he troops from the capitals OF those
States, and it was the consplrators