The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-03-27
GOVERNMENTAL WEAKNESS.

latlOn now Is dehlil 10 DOM OFdef ana
From Mr., Hayes vigorous
declarations in his inaugural we had a
right to expect anything else, but later
events have taught the country that, as
far as character and decision 90, the
previous administration was immeasurl-
bly, the superior Of this. Tho telegraph
informs us that Mr.. Hayes is dallying
with Morton and this fact is sinister
circumstance and indicating ,some
thing besides listlessness, at all events
We don't care to hear that there is
much intimacy between the president
and this dark chief Of the ultras, until
after the Louisiana and South Carolina
problems havo been solved God forbid
that the ruthless Morton should have
voice in their final solution and yet his
presence at the white house and his
carriage drives with Hayes, can have but
one object because, as yet, he has ha
everything else his own way. There is
nothing of moment where hate can tip
with poison another arrow for the South
except this, and the country well under
stands that Morton is thus engaged.
The question is now, if in sthe event
Mortonian counsels prevail, will Key,
Schur2 and Eyarts remain in the cabi-
net ? If they do not, the coun-
try may rest perfectly assured that
their places will be supplied with
material of quite another stamp. The
rival governors of South Carolina are
hidden to Washington, and their adj
verse claims are to be canyassed in
cabinet session. Morton, through Hayes,
will announce the fate determined upon
for poor South Carolina, and n commits,
sion, whose members are his creatures,
will solemnly proceed to Louisiana and
perform the same woeful ceremony for
another one of the sovereign States of
the Union
Where is this all to stop2 At what
point will a halt be called in these hasty
marches toward presidential usurpation
and absolutism2 No one from Mr..
Hayes previous course Of life, can
truthfully charge that such spirit is in
grained with him. 1t is not the prompt
ings Of his own heart, but through his
weakness and yascillaton Morton
operates and lorges chains for the hated
intelligence and worth of these two
States.
Hayes weakness in this instance is u
crime. We need the quiet and order
which positive settlement Of these
problems will produce. We need the
entire confidence which their proper
settlement will establish. 1t will cost
the general government nothing to do it,
1t will wrong no one, but it will be
effective as nothing else can be, in
building up the broken and shattered
States named, Their sister Southern
States demand it; every other State in
the Union demands it, because, who is
safe if executive power can, under any
tlimsy preteXt, lay its hand upon and
mould at will the government of soy
ereign States2 Humanity demands it;
commerce and the interests of the poor,
aye, even the negro himself, all demand
that the Southern States and more
especially South Carolina and Louisi-
ana be suffered to re.enter, through u
healthy home government, that career
of prosperity which was rudely inter-
rupted by executive tyranny and which
gave abundance of well-paid employ
ment to millions upon millions OF the
struggling poor of the world.
No, indeed Not any true son of the
South can holdotlice under or maintain
a good understanding with Al admins
tration which is weak enough to con
summate this foul wrong. The entire
West and Northwest protests loudly
against it, They know that if the old
thrift is again put in possession of the
government of Louisiana that at once
the old market for their superabund-
ance is established, and to the remotest
grain or bacon-producing foot of land
throughout all that region, will the
good effects of a just settlement of the
Louisiana problem be Immediately felt