Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-04-09
MONDAY EVENING. APRIL :, 1877.

AS the order for the removal Of The federal
troops from the State House OF South Carolina
will 60 into effect TO morrow, and the State be
then, in ali probability. relieved Of lts sWlud-
ling and oppressive oarpet.bsg and negro gov
eminent, and be restored to it5 equality with
the other States of the Union-Southern States
at lesst-the regard, entertained by most men
for the feelings Of those in adversely, that would
have restrained us from harshy criticisDg the
course Of that State-as manifested by lis lead.
ing public men1hiIe under the fortunes to
which it hes been so long subjected. 40 longer
exists, and the late speeches Of Gov. Hampton
give US an opportunity to express oar opinions
on the subject unreserVedly
We acknowledge that We have never been
ardent admirers Of the State, any moro than OF
Massachusetts, aud that we have always thought
that had these two States been out Of the
Union there would haze been no civil war; that
hundreds of thousands of dead fathers and
brothers would now be alive and providing for
their dependent families; that thousands Of
those now suffering the misery Of poverty
would be living 10 comfort, that the onerous
taxes that now Cypress ali classes would be un
dreamed Of; and that the country, instead of be-
ipg divided into two impoverished, unhappy,
and, apparently, hostile camps, would he united
10 the Same bonds of brotherhood that formerly
bound it together, aud be Known among al the
nations of the earth as the haven Of prosperity
for oppressed humanity.
South Carolina originated the war and drag.
esd the other Southern States-eveu those in
favor of seoassiou~-into It before they had made
the necessary preparations; and yet Gov. Orr
was the IRIS, to adopt Grantism, By accepting
the mission to Russia aud the present Gov
ernor asked COL Moshy to inlercode With Grant
Tor his recognition, and wrote a letter TO Mr..
HAYES, pending tho decision Of the presidential
question. askiny recognition OF ham also, and
now SAYS tha! hereafter she rights Of The col.
ored man 10 his State shall be respected, so
help him God. and that Mr.. Hayes is not only
good but q grea; mau.
When Governor Hampton says that the
white men 0! his State shall respect The rights
OF the negro hereafter he certainly implies that
they have not respected them heretofore, which
We do not believe and which is directly at Vari-
ance with the evidence not only OF all the re.
spectcd people Of that State but also with that
Of the radical judges there, and which, if
true, warrants all the evils the State has en-.
dured, but which, not true, certainly indicates
position 10 politics so independent that it is
swaybacked toward ladlcasm.
MIR. Hayes, too, be says, is 4 great aud q
good man. lie may dcyeope Into the former,
but there must be i marked reformation 10 his
moral character ii he is to have q Legitimate
place among the good ,-;hat is il the accep-
lance and retention o.! stoleo goods, and the
payment Of the men who accomplished his
fraudulent election by giving them lucrative
Offices, as in the case OF Alcl4in, Of Florida or
retaining them in Office, as in the case Of Gov.
Wells who ia addition to his attempt to sell
The vote OF the State Of Louisiana is proved to
have attempted to dc!raud the government by
smuggling goods through the port Of New Or
leans, be considered among the conditions that
exclude men from the congregation Of the
righteous As we have said, he may devcopc
into great mau, but bis conference with the
South Carolina contestants, and his Louisiana
commission. and his procrastina,ion in the set
Element Of the Southern question, indicate that
10 that event also decided change will have to
be effected 10 his intellectual organs.
He is devoid Of ordinary understanding il
he does not, now that he is in possession Of the
Presidency. DO what he can to quiet his claim
toit, and there is no surer method Of accomplish
ing that end than by fulfilling the terms of the
bargain his accredited agents, Foster and
Matthews, made for his peaceful Inauguration,
and certainly deserves no credit for it. A pick
pocket is not entitled to praise for not telling
bis victim after be has gotten his money, nor
Iobber for not burning house after he hos
plundered it. but either would have rs much
claim to merit as MIR. Hayes has for bis course
with regard to the South.
We approve his conclliatory policy, not for
the reasons assigned by Gov. Hampton, but
because it is opposed by Wendell Phillips,
Mr.. Blaine, and the carpet. baggers, for even
Gen. Grant, when mis- last hope for another
term had vanished, acknowledged that such
policy was the best that could be adopted aud
he would have had the troops removed from
the State Houses of the two disturbed States
before he left the White House if he had net
supposed that Mr.. Hayes would have ordered
the removal as soon as he entered that abode
The Washington Capital has the following
1.-THE Alexandria authorities seem to be
loosely.organi=ed body, or else our police hosd-
quarters is at fault in To secure the msu sr.