The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-03-22
The Doctrine Of Political Equality for
the Negro Practically Abandoned.

---.Fhe selection and confirmation Of the
members of Mr.. Hayes Cabinet are
events of the greatest political signifi-
canoe. tits the first time in the history
Of the country that q President, acceding
to power, after an embittered partisan
contest, has at once deserted his suppor-
tiers, and gone squarely and boldly into
the ranks of the opposition for one of the
heads of the departments. Yet from all
Bides Mr.. Hayes receives assurances that
this unexampled proceeding is approved,
and that it chimes in with the popular
sentiment of the hour.
Why? What produces such an anom-
alous condition of affairs3
: It all grows out of the contest of races
in the South. Sixteen years ago, when
Abraham Lincoln entered upon the duties
of President, the way to the capital was
always so enyironed with danger that he
did not deem it prudentto travel openly
through the city of Baltimore Swiftly
followed the terrible war of the rebellion,
though slowly and long it dragged out its
sanguinary length. The shareholders ul-
'imately surrendered, and nominal peace
ensued. The blacks were not only made
free, but amendments were added to the
constitution, and series of laws were
enacted BY Congress, for their especial
protection and benefit. With only par
tial and embarrassed exception under
Andrew johnson, the national Govern
ment has since then been steadily ad-
ministered, in the Southern States, in
harmony with the desires of the emanci-
pated race. If Nh. Hayes is President
to-day. he is President by the use Of
black. votes and by the support of those
whose only political strength has arisen
from their alliance and Identification with
the colored race.
Yet, notwithstanding all these fact, Mr..
Hayes, at the very beginning of his ad-
ministration, does three things which
write the word White all over his policy,
and indicate that be intends to erase the
word Black, forever, as q potent influence
in our national politics.
I. He does not appoint any black man,
or mulatto, to. his Cabinet He prefers
Carl Schurz, a foreigner, to Frederick
Douglass, an ADLER and more eloquent
man, and native born-the only advan-
tage of Schurz consisting in his COM
plexion.i z -, ~
II. refuses to appoint any Repub-
lican from the old slaveholding States !;
and for this there can be no other sufi.
cient reason than that the Republicans
in those States. are all at one with the
negroes.
III. He not only coldly turns his back
ON the negroes and their white allies in
the former slaveholding States, but he
goes into one Of those States and takes to
his embrace man we'll known for his
opposition to the colored party.
Mr.. Hayes has plenty of soft words
about the equality of the races. In the
face of this formation of his Cabinet, they
become meaningless. To the colored peo-
pie and their allies he gives honeyed phra-
ses; buthe gives them no representation in
his Cabinet. He may send one colored
man to ,Hayti, and employ another to
black his boots; but he will not be found
taking sweet counsel together on public
affairs with any of them, or with their
white worshippers. From the inaugura-
ton of MI. Hayes as President will date
the decline and fall of all practical equal
ity, political or social, in this country, for
the colored race. 1t is On epoch in our
political history, the significance of which
is plain to all who will open their eyes,
N. Y. Sun,