The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-02
THE CORRECT STATEMENT OF THE
CASE

Hayes, and the acceptance of it by the
South. says:
The South 10 invited to the banquet OF req 70
berry OF ito own rights, and asked to share In NJ
own spoliation. John sherman and hia confed
crates who are responsible for oil the Infamles
reconstruction, and who, mp 70 me early GAYS Q
December, were engaged with the returning ras
Gals at New Orleans in completing the villainy Dl
which Louisiana was cold to HAYES, have nov
the audacity to invoke the cooperation OF The
very men whGm they hbelled outraged, cheated
and DETAINED with fabricated affidayits and viii
the suborned testimony ct ignorant or vicious
negroes
ALI these acts, declarations, and insults date
since the election in Eoven Der, and most Of
them are quite recent. While they are fresh be
fore the country the Of Hayes are be
people who have been thus illuminated ano
wrongtd shall surrender their manhood, wear
selEimposod badge OF degradation and become
accomplices in the crimes OF their piunderins
II will be interesting to
know II there is . single Southern man OF any
prominence and character who would contaminate
himself by q bargain and sale such as bas been
offered by the friends OF Hayes. II there be
.rafIickers OF q secondary class, we advise them,
sht uId the opportunity offer, to fUtfow Inc exsn-
pie of Wells and bis Returning Board, and get
their price in hand "before delivering the goods "
Now, this is all very eloquent but
rather violent writing, and quite I'M
called for, as it Is in no respect correct
statement Of the relation Of the South
to Mr.. Hayes and ''his agents" All
that the SIN says of the mission OF Sen
ator Sherman and "his confederates !"
to this State Is true; no man In the
United States, we presume, will deny
this; but that "they have invoked the
cooperation Of the very men whom they
libelled, outraged, cheated" etc., or
that they are seeking to drive bargain
"by which the people they have thus
illuminated and wronged shall surren-
der their manhood" ETC., or that any
case is presented In which Southern
men are called upon to contaminate
themselves bya bargain and sale; or
that there is anything in the relations
of the South to Mr.. Hayes any more
than there Is in the relations OF the
East and West to Mr.. Hayes, to justify
the wild and violent harrangue OF the
Sun, we dispute.
An open trade between Louisiana and
South Carolina, on the one part, and
Mr.. Hayes, on the other, to secure
legitimate and honest local administra-
lions in those States, in consideration
of the acquiescence of their people in
the Inauguration OF Mr.. Hayes, would
be far less reprehensible, If there can
be any gradations in unprincipled
transactions, than the disguised, but
nevertheless actual, trade which has
been made between the East, on the
one part, and the Republican conspira-
tors, on the other, to secure peace and
security to the bondholders, in con-
sideration Of the acquiescence OF the
country in the fraudulent counting in
Of the Republican candidate for the
But neither the South at large, nor
Louisiana and South Carolina specially,
have made any trade with Mr.. Hayes;
nor do they propose to make one. 1t
was not the South that, in response to
the threats Of John Sherman, Zach
Chandler, Morton and Garfield, to
count Hayes in by fair means or foul,
emphatically declared that peace was
the paramount object; that fraud was
preferable to revolution; that it was
better Hayes through forgery, perjury
and all wickedness, than civil war
which would unsettle business and de-
preciate government bonds; nor was it
the New Orleans DEMOCRAT or any
other representative Southern jour.
nails that, while the conspirators
were openly, and before all the world,
carrying on their wicked scheme, daily
these cowardly, slavish.
and, we might almost say, infamous
doctrines. No, it was the voice Of the
East, and it was the New York press,
without a single exception, which daily,
while they debauched the populace with
such sentiments, fired the hearts Of the
conspirators to go on with their villain
GUS business. The South had nothing
to do with this peace-at-any-price policy
which encouraged and invited the fraud
that has been successfully perpetrated
upon the country.
When it became absolutely certain
that the National Democracy, In the in
terest OF the bondholders, had surren-
dered the victory; that the Democracy
of the East and the West; that
Governor Tilden and Governor Hend-
ricks and the New York press had con-
cluded to acquiesce in the Inauguration Of
Mr.. Hayes, and stake it on" in quo acar
ranto proceedings. protests, howls OF
indignation, appeals to the country and
posterity. etc., the people of Louisiana
began to look around them, and to
think Of what they had endured in the
past eight years; and they saw their
broken levees; they saw their metropo-
lis declining; they saw their fields