The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-03-21
THE STATUS QUO.

lent Hayes than we are, still we should
pity him from the bottom Of our heart,
Between his duty, inclination and the
,lear justice of both Hampton and
positions, and fealty to party
md the other wretched circumstance,
the doubt of his own right, which
would be established if he Gusts Pack
ard and Chamberlain is in a
predicament to be sure, No
honest man can help sympathizing
with him to greater or less degree
but Hayes has now arrived at a point
where he is to make or mar his admin
istration. II no comedies to the ultras
and retains the fraudulent COVER
nors OF these two States, he, by that act,
puts himself in direct and violent OPP
position not only to every conservative
element in his own party, but all there
is in the nation,
Can decent national administration
sit quietly by and see Packard call
round him the ignorant and vicious,
the irresponsible and the turbulent Of
Louisiana, arm them, and turn them
loose in the streets of New Orleans to
reinstate, by murder and arson, the
baleful policy which has throttled her
already, and which ere five years more
if permitted to govern, will reduce that
fair State to perfect "hell on earth
or remand it to the wilderness condi-
ton the early Spanish explorers found
ii in.
We do not want to believe this We
would infinitely prefer that Mr.. Hayes
save himself and the country the dis
grace which would attach to both, if
this great violence is done to the sacred
right of self government. We have
seen nothing as yet in his policy heard
nothing he has said, and have not the
slightest intimation from any quarter
that he will assent to this violence
Still, while this is true, it would be
much more satisfactory, had we more
definite assurance that he would inter
pose the moral weight of his govern
ment between the Infatuated hordes o
Packard, and the decent, law-abidinl
taxpayers, who hold to and support
the Nichols government
The status quo cannot longer be main
tanned lndeoision is nearly as bad a
error in this sort Of thing, The qucs
ton must be decided and Hayes alon,
is the man to do that. He is Gale,
upon by every interest and influence
to put an end to the dual governments
He is called upon by every decent innu
ence to put down the creatures Of lrau'
and corruption, and establish in thei
places the only government which vii
insure peace and security to these mos
unfortunate States. so is he calle
upon by the rifl,rail Of these States, tn
precious relics bequeathed to us 10y on
great civil war, Of imported fraud an
ruthless unbridled tyranny minor at
PENDANTS of that stupendous fraud b
which Hayes is president, and I'll
den private citizen to, day.
1t is time for republicanism to pal
with its radicalism. The genius of tn
age is fast settling down into an unutte
able disgust at the hypocrisy whic
affects still to care for the poor negr,
while it, in the face OF the whole worl,
unblushingly uses that negro, only as
} stepping stone for its pimps and shou
der-hitters to mount to power-thi
power which enrches them, and max,
their poor deluded victims poor indee,
) There is one thing certain, and that il
If Mr., Hayes permits this foul-wrongt
be done to the people of Louisiana an
South Carolina, he may expect IL
people to institute proceedings |
which the frauds covered up by IL
returning boards and that blessed cor
mission will be laid bare to the gaze
the world, and his own tenure will
! vastly curtailed by that proceeding.