The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-27
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Great Fault Of Hayes Is Lacking
Of Backbone.
His Lost Opportunity.
Postmaster General Key on the Pe!nt Of
Being Tynerized.
Especial Correspondence N. o. Democrat

Especial Correspondence N. o. Dsmoerstl
WASHINGTON, March az, 1877.
The new Southern policy is-A Policy.
After three weeks Of fretting and stew
ing; after twenty-one days OF delega-
tions and assurances and guarantees
and interviews, and consideration and
deliberation, the Administration finds
that there are two roads, one Of which
leads to perdition and the other to
damnation--so the Administration
| TAKES TO THE WOODS.
| have not kept an exact account, but
/ should presume that the actual state
Of things In South Carolina and Louis
lana had been represented to the Pregi-
dent no less than seyenty-five times, by
seventy-flve delegations, embracing
men Of all parties, all colors and all
shades of political opinion, past and
present. The question at issue was,
| ''Shall the troops be removed from the
State Houses OF Louisiana and South
Carolina and the people Of those States
LEFT TO GovEEN THEMSELVES 2"
| The affirmative of this important
question has been represented at the
| White House by, we will say, the fol-
| lowing gentlemen:
Charles Foster, Stanley Matthews,
Carl Schurz, Evarts, Warmoth, Casey,
Mackey, Sheridan, Pinchback, Scott,
Robertson and other members OF Con.
gress and citizens Of note North and
party. BY Gordon, Lamar, Hill, Levy,
Ellis, Gibson, Butler, Eustis, and, In
short, every Conservative OF note and
| influence North, South, East or West,
who has set his foot inside the White
House since the beginning OF the fraud
ulent administration.
The negative of this important ques-
| tion has been sustained by Jim Blaine,
John J. Patterson, Kellogg and
MAN NAMED P1TKIE.
The Administration has heard the ur-
gency Of all these gentlemen on the one
side, and the protests OF these four per-
sons on the other. 1t has concluded
| that the case Ia 80 evenly balanced that
| q tribunal must be called In to decide !
| An administration which was not elect
| 81 electoral votes, and then counted in
| by majority of Joe Bradley, considers
an issue made up as above In the nature
| of
Fab STAND. OFF.
Well, probably it is all we had reason
| to expect under the circumstances.
Now let us see what this tribunal bust
ness means. Mr.. Hayes, his friends
tell me, Is a cautious man. He wants
to know exactly what he is doing before
be does anything. We certainly have
no reason to ind fault with his prom
ises, SO far as he has made any. His
| viewed In the light Of promise.
Nothing could have been better or
| broader. No words could have been
sweeter. But there has not been any
thing large about the performance.
Mr.. Hayes heard all the Southern
pe ople had to say. He asked for guar
antees that the rights Of the poor
black man" should be protected. He
asked that moderation and forgiveness
Packard, and Cham mberlain, and j. Mad
ison Wells. He wanted to be assured
that there would be peace. He desired
to be satisfied that there would be
NO osTRAc1sM,
no persecution. He as ked all, and all
was given MIN. Then he sends Com
mission down there to investigate-a
Tribunal to adiudicate. / can t see what
the Commission Is to look for. unless
haply the President suspects that the
Southern men have not given him all
unless he thinks that, having taken
| their cloaks, they have failed to give
! him their coats also-and wants the
| Commission to go down there on grand
hunt for the missing garments.
The Commission has been appointed.
THE sTATUs QUO
is to be preserved. These are the
House Thas is o say ane 500 oee
people in LouisiaAa and 100000
| in South Carolina eare to be held
on the toasting-spit .of Federal bayo-
nets six weeks, two: months or three
months longer, their industries stified,
their commerce paralyzed. their society
| pense with chills Of apprehension-a
why? Simply that the possible
"eiaims and presumptive legal
rights of four or five adventurers,
thieves. vampires or what not may be
tenderly adjusted.
think can tell you what is the mat
ter with Mr.. Hayes. He wants to please
too many people. He wants 10 give
peace and good government to the
Southern States without disturbing the
serenity or hurting the feelings OF
THE CARPET BAGGERs.
He wants to make q respectable ad-
ministration without mourning the en-
nifty Of Jim Blaine!
! These are Things Wnlcn can pe ClQ,
80 to speak. You might as well try to
hang murderer without hurting his
neck as to essay good governm ent In the
South without detriment to the carpet.
Dagger. And it would be as easy to
maintain q social status with prosti-
tute at the head Of your household as to
make a respectable administration
without
; THE ENMITY OF JIM gLAINE.
But Mr.. Hayes thinks he sees his way
clear to do all these things. He will be
"amiably stubborn he says. That is a
good sort of a com bination when right
fully adjusted. But In the present case
Mr.. Hayes has been stubborn with
those to whom he should have hsen
J amiable. and his amiabitity has been
] directed toward those who should hass
encountered his stubbornness.
Ar tho ot1tset nf his administration tnf