The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-06-03

Die OF furnishing individuals fit to hold and
exercise the public trusts of Office. The idea
that the carpct-hag system could supply
the necessary leaders, or, In other words,
that the Governments of States could be car
ricd on by filling the Offices with men COM
ing from tho North to undertake the con-
troll Of everything political through the
votes Of n population which lacked all the
means of being sclf-govcrning population,
because it lacked the individuals competent
to the exercise Of public trusts, was from
the first gross ahsurdty
This system has now broken down. II Is
confcsscdly an utter failure In the first
place, its failure Is confessed by what IL
called President HAYEs's Southern policy.
How it happens that President who has
obtained possession of the great Office now
occupied 10y Mr.. HAYES through tho opera
tion Of the system which he now discards,
should all at once reject that system, to the
extent OF denying the title Of men to local
Offices whose title is Of exactly the same
nature as his own to the national Office into
which he has been fuistcd by their aid, is
one Of the most curious political problems
in our history. How it happens that Mr.
HAYES should have n Southern policy that
admits all that the Democratic party has
contcndcd for during more than ten years,
and that ignores all that the Republican
party contcndod for down TO and through
the whole Of the late canvass In which MIR
HAYES was not elected ~ President of the
United States. and by which another man
became the appointed representative Of the
change which public opinion had dccrccd in
the relations Of the Federal power to the
internal affairs Of the South, might under
other circumstances be an amusing in
quiry.
But to whomsocvcr else this thunder be-
longs, the idea Of Withdrawing the Federal
power from an active Interference with the
internal concerns Of the southern States.
and from "A forcibe upholdng Of the carpet
bag system of governing those States by
means Of colorcd Republican party Off
ccrcd 10y white Adventures from the North,
Is certainly not Mr. IIAYEss thunder. Yet
the most striking thing in relation to the
collapse Of this system Is that it receives
what is perhaps its death blow from n
man who has attained the position occupied
10y Mr.. HAYES through the cOnsummatiOn OF
frauds and imposturcs that are the direct
fruits and the chosen Observation-Disclosures Ofthe
system itself. The Fraudulent President is
the creature Of the Republican policy toward
the South, evolved naturally out Of its work
ing- Of the past ten or eleven years and it is
but retrihutivc justice that the Republican
party should bee made through him to feel
and acknowledge the mischief that it has
done. and should b" iloutcd with what hc and
hi-followcrS are pleased to cali his policy.
Again. we have a remarkable confession
coming from one of the most Intelligent and
conspicuous of the whole carpct-hag fra
tcrnitv a man who has tried the system Of
Republican control of the South 10y means of
cpior'd Republican party under the most
favorable auspices and with all the in~tru-
mrutulitics that the system could furnish.
! Gov. CHA,iBLRLAIN had at his command the
whole political force Of the negroes Of South
Carolina and -olong as he was backed 10y the
direct force II the Federal power he could
/ keep the State I'm the category Of Republican
4 states for the uses oi The Republican party.
/ But what docs he tell rs now that this
system of Republican party Tactics has
/ broken down, concerning the Internal gov
crnmcnt of the state, lie admits that "suc-
cc-~ful Scli-govcrnmcnt. under the law Of
universal suffrage. requires education, in
| toil"ctual training. and larc" amount of
Accumulated political experience. IN short,
! an understanding of the duties of citif"u-
ship It, admits that the negroes as "a
mass are dr-tiiut" of all these qualifications
for conducting a government, and that.
a- they could not furnish competent leaders
from their own race. they fell into the hands
Of bad leaders of tn" other race. lie adj
mit- that bad leadership and ignorant fol-
lowers will ruin any government that rr-'-
upon universal suffrage: and he very prop
crly attributes the failure of the Republican
party To- give good government to South
/ Carolina To- 1.-THE bad leadership of a mass of
ignorant voters. We do mot know how q
more signal ririhution could have over
taken the Republican party Of the United
states
Here is n man whose position and oppor
tunltc- were the direct creation If tn,
Republican method OF treating and govern
ng the southern States 80 FAR ~ South
Carolina was concerned. he had the whole ui
thnt policy in his hands. Unto the point 81
making ii aid in the fraudulent Induction
into the Office of President Of the United
States of man who Wa never elected t,
that Office. hr and his fellows are quit,
successful n Republican party leaders. Bat
when, "Vict"d 10y Il political revolution with
in the state. he comes to account fol
the failure of hi- party to show tn,
fruits Of even decent and honest Stat" gov,
ernmcnt, hc i compelled, 10y the moral LAW
of -ci-inllictcd rctrihution, t. lay tine ham,
where it belongs, namely upon that policl
Of his own party which undertook. upon q
basis of universal suffrage, to make "had
leadership and ignorant followers work out
the problem Of good government Oui
neighbour the Sutton, thinks that Mr. CHAM
BEnLAlN's confessions "haNr taken way
the very last foundation stone Of any Re-
publican "ppp-itioutoth southern pol 20
tn" Pfe-ld"ut.' cur own Judgment j. that
they haN" demonstrated the lHl~ity uf any
claim by Mr. HAYES to a southern policy
iun-much as they show that MIR. HAYES ma.
simply -uccumb'd hrnrath the hroak-dowl
of the policy which the Republican part
inaugurat"d at the close of the war, an,
has ever since tried TO maintain
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