The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-05-28
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xr,r TO give them ur. Every act OF violence
in the South in which negro is involved
is. through the reports OF Radical letter.
writers and newspapers, represented as the
result 0, political luminosity. One LAWS a
negro. is killed in Louisiana, and 1t is spread
ever the North rs political murder-LA"s'
{. Is said. was killed by the White League
<tbecause he was Republican" II this
wer,, the cause OF the killing, why, the MUIR
doris should continue till all black-Black Re
r,h,;cans are dead. Can anybody suppose
such A statement true? Is such monstfous
stort 70 be made the occasion for depressing
= whole communitys or dcnouncins a whole
community and invoking for them the III
will OF their iellow-citizens OF the North!
Ye, that leading Republican organ, the New
York Times. makes this LAWS case the oc-
casion for bitter article against the South,
tho tenor of which is to show that the peo-
ple OF the South ought not to have the right
OF selt-governmcnt since they cannot pro-
pcrly administer justice.
II would seem that President HAYES is
not averse to favoring the idea that the
alleged cruelties towards the negro are
continued in the South. and it is deplorable
to see that, notwithstanding he has asSented
to the policy Of granting to the southern
States the rightto "local selI-government'
he still considers it a part OF his business TO
supervise southern States upon the subject
OF the negro. We alluded Saturday to his
unauthorized interference in Mississippi
and the impertinence OF that act. What we
said was exactly proper, and If that act was
properly stated he has been already guilty
of a great inconsistency in his south
ern policy. AS we said in that article,
he has no more right to interfere with
the domestic affairs in n southern State
than he has to interfere with the same
kind OF affairs in any northern State. he
has as much right to interfere with the case
Of the Molly Maguires and their advcrSaries
in Pennsylvania as he has to interfere with
the Kemper-county (MissiSsippD outrages,
and, we add, the LAWS murder in the
State of Louisiana. Those States are as
much protected by the Constitution from
Federal interference as are Massachusetts,,
Vermont, and Pennsylvania. Moreover,
we declare that if he has any power over
such matters at all there is greater occa-
sion for his interference in the northern
States than in the southern; for there are
a great many more outragcs upon life and
property in the North than there are in the
South.
Is President HAYES inclined to copy
GRANT and sacrifice the principles upon
which his southern policy of lberating the
States troddcn down by GRANT was based ?
Certainly his movement to stir up Governor
STONE, OF Mississippi, to compel him to
"protect" negroes in that State is step in
that direction. Plainly such step argues
the existence of the belief in the mind Of
the President that he has power in the prem
ises, and may, after an admonition, take
some action to compel respect for his admo-
milton. His admonition is mere imperti-
nence unless he has the power thus to fol-
low 1t up. And his recognition OF the eau
fonomy' Of each OF the southern States is
a positive acknowledgment that he has no
such authority. 10. ~:
It is we'll for US to stick pin just here.
Is Mr.. HAYES endeavoring to commend
himself to those Republicans who have been
so angry at his letting South Carolina and
Louisiana go: Is he endeayoring to save
some of the machinery of Radicalism-that
bywhch the sectional animosities have been
infamed and the northern heart fired with
hatred towards the South-to be employed
in the coming campaign: That would be
treacherous to his peace policy and promo
tive OF the political and social strife which
he has shown such desire to extinguish.
We hope otherwise. But it is well that
Mr.. HAYES should be warned against this
error. We see Radical papers in the North
ready and eager for this business OF firing
anew sectional feelings and proonging ma
tional disturbances and national injury and
grief. BLAINE, MORTON, and all their tribe
are in this line.
We repeat, the South is quieter than the
North. There is less outrage in the South
chan there is in the North; and il the Fed
cral Government has any authority to inter-
fere for securing justice and administering
punishment in the States where State laws
are violated 1t would better apply its au-
thority at the North than the South. Let
Mir. HAYES consider the truth in this ques-
ton: that he is no more the executor OF
State laws in Alabama than he is in Mich
ipan-that the clamor OF the partisan press
and the malicious carpet-baggers is party
trick-md that hecannot with right, dignity,
and honor pay any respect whatever to it.
The Conservative party, considering ma
tional matters, should keep well compacted
and observe the State and national oblga-
tions resting upon them Of fidelity to both
State and national law. Keeping their
minds concentrated upon the duty OF de-
Tending the public welfare and preserving
the ordH and safety OF their State, they
should be fair, and even liberal, in judging
the public Administration. But they should
never forget that they must keep faith with
one another as well as with Government,
and. regard it under the present condition
OF the country as great calamity for the
control Of the government of the State to
pass from their bands. Years would not be
sufficient to repair the disaster-sociai, po-
Iitical, and fnancial-which would be caused
by that calamity.
.sAs for General Malone, they seem to
think it sacrilege that any friend OF his
L. ~sn, H., y. H.