The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-07-12

announcement OF his purpose TO with
draw the United States troops, he had
gained for the Nichols Legislature Re-
turning Board quorum, he proclaims hia
discovery thnt no cause Of domestic vio-
lence exists in Louisiana warranting his
intervention, and withdraws the troops.
But, w.citlsens, what were the facts
of the situation in Louisiana as respects
this question Of domestic violence2 Was
there actual or only threatened violence2
simply state facts known to every man,
whenl say that actual violence, armed
insurrection, military organizations un'
der arms moving and acting under or
ders of officers, had attacked the Govern
ment represented by Governor Packard,
had wrested from it by actual overpoN-
ering force large part Of the public OH.
ces and buildings at New Orleans, and
had paused only when they had shut
him and all that remained of his Govern.
ment within the walls of one building in
that city This armed force had been
stayed from further progress only by the
actual presence of the military forces Of
the United States, acting under orders
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violence. Now, fellow. citizens, is it not
mockery and Insult to ask whether this
is domestic violelce2 But it is said the
violence had ceased. How had it ceas-
ed? Why had it ceased2 Had the insur-
gent forces been disbanded2 Had they
relinquished their purpose 70 resist the
authority of Governor PackardP Had
his rightful authority been restored in
the places from which it had been ex.
pelledY No, the insurgent forces main
tanned their ground, maintained their or
ganizatiOns, maintained their purpose,
held possession and use of all they had
gained by force, and openly and at every
hour, from the 4th Of March to April 20,
defied the lawful government of the State,
resisting by actual force every effort OF
the lawful Government to subdue them,
and actually seizing and imprisoning the
State officers who attempted to exercise
or assert the authority OF the lawful Gov
ernment. Will any man dispute this
challenge him to come for
ward. But we are told we are especially
assured by Col. Higginson, that there
was peace at this time; perhaps, he Gays, |
q "hollow peace" but still "peaCe." Now, |
| say, that, as a matter of fact, or of rea-
son, or of law, there was no more peace
in Louisiana at this time than there was
in Virginia in the winter of 1863 to 1864,
when the armies Of Gen. Meade and Gen.
Lee lay silently confronting each other
On the banks of the Rapidan. mean
exactly what | say. The authority Of
,he lawful Government of Louisiana was
IS much assailed, the peace of that State
vas as much disturbed by armed resist
lnce, from March 4th to April Goth, as
vas the Government and peace of the
United States when active military oper.
.tions were suspended, for any cause,
Turing the four years ofrebellion.
We have now seen what are the fea-
ures of what is well called President
Iayes's Southern policy. ask no one
o 90 with me further than the arguments
ghich / present shall fairly carry him.
FOR myself, l take leave to denounce it,
ere and now, as unconstitutional and
evolutionary, subversiye of Constitu.
ional guarantees and false to every die
ate of political honor, public justice and
ood morals. There is no point, feature
r form of this policy that has a fair con-
ruction of the Constitution, or an hon
st view of the facts which are involved;
nd | believe it requires only a careful
uninfuenCed by mawkish
ointment or the cowardiCe which shrinks
ON attacking the conduct of one who
as chosen by our own party, to con-
ince all who have ever sympathized
ith the principles of the Republican
arty, that such a policy deserves, upon
Il legal and Constitutional grounds, the
which have pronounced
pom it.
But when we look further and inquire
hat other defenses of this policy are of.
red, we are lost in a maze of subterfu-
IS, contradictions, falsehoods, fallacies
I'd inanities. Conspicuous in this list
the claim made by hePresdent himself
I'd echoed by his defenders, that this
residential policy is in accord with the l
atform of the Republican party, with !
le Presidents letter of acceptance, and
ith his known views at the time of his
and during the canvass. l
III this the chief of subterfuges, if not of {
lsehoods. l confess / cannot under 1
and or measure the audacity which !
rompts such claim. When, where, 9
= whom, before the nomination or after
during the canvass, or during the long |
,ony of suspense which succeeded the e
.nvass, will you find from President q
ayes or any representative from him 6
of the Republican party, high or low, I
hint of such a policy 1t can not be
und. Never, till the country heard L
ith amazement the first whisperings of t
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I'd the Ohio clique who stood nearest 8
e President-the basest passage have O
'er read in our political history-did 8
~ portion of the public, or of the Re.
lbliCan party, imagine that the Presi- v
mt would enter upon such a policy or C
urse of action. 1t is impossible to over 8
ate this general fact. Especially is it g
lpossible to overstate the deliberate, c
unremitted efforts made
every stage Of the struggle, from Nov. t
b to March 4th, to inspire the South b
n Republicans with fidelity to the Re- C
lbllcan cause. If doubts arose, with p
ectric speed came new assurance that
ayes, if elected, would vindicate the
yhts Of those who were fighting his r
titles at the South. Is the despicable a
question here made that President e
ayes knew nothing of all this2 Sir, it a
impossible. He did know it; and he d
BOD by, willing to see men risking by n
y and by night for months, which a
emed longer than years; aye, losing n
cir lives by hundreds to lift him to the p
esidency upon the lying assurances, if p
nat he now says be true, that he would L
otect them and rescue them by the b
wers of the Office he should receive. o
very man who stood near to the Presi. b
mt, every man whom the public had u
yht to regard as his faithful representa- C
Ie, Joined in these assurances--assur- ti
ces which carried no doubtful mean. S
assurances which meant to the be- Il
lguered and fainting soldiers on those Il
tposts Of freedom, that succor and help g
,uld come if they only defended to the s.
Ut the ground which they won. Sir, 81
len I think of these THINGS nv heart n