, 1877-10-13
Hints Concerning Hayes.

Stanley Mathews says there are NO prom
iseS made by Hayes friends in his behalf il
order to conciliate the south and induce thai
section to aequiesee in his Inauguration. But
the New Orleans P;eay,ae comes with very
different story In its issue of the 18Th Of
September, referring 10 president Hayes
speeches in Ohio, 1t says:
! When MIR. Greeley was nominated by the
liberal republicans on platform which sub,
stantlally embodied the southern policy, Mr..
Hayes was one of the prominen, supporters
OF Gea. Grant, who was the great exponent
of tie opposite policy. Again, when the
election rews reached him indicating his own
defeat for the presidency, he said that so far
as he was personally conserved the result
did not trouble him, but that he was disturb
ed and anxious about the fate of the ne
groes." The natural Inference drawn from
this utteranee was that Mr.. Hayes had no
| faith IN the southern policy announced by
| the democrats under the leadership of AIr.
Hidden, and that If elected he would remain
! faithful to the old policy Of which Thah,icus
Stevens was the author and Gen Grant the
executive. The times have changed, how
ever, and Mr.. Hayes having changed with
them, Is under some necessity of explanation.
Accordingly, We find him upon the stump
upon the eve of an election which turns
largely upon his course In this regard. de-
clarng that it occurred 10 him that the
American people wauid be .ald to have
such methods applied to the relations then
existing between the states and between the
whites and blacks as would, if possible, set
tie these differences peacebiy and bring back
the republic to the condition IN hieh 1t was
100 Years ago, when the fathers were one
upon all questions. Unfortunately for Mr.
Hayes, explanations are not excuses. Why
did 1t not occur to him four ago that the
American people would be glad To have the |
equality OF states re-estahlished and the con
tiict between the white and black races COM
posed upon q just and generous basis, The !
southern situation had undergone no change |
during those years which elapsed between |
the defeat of Mr. Greedy and the Inaugural
ton Of Mr.. Hayes. The gentlemen who vis- ;
tied Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina
In search Of that missing vote which stood |
between MIR. Hayes and the presidency, re-
ported that very state Of affairs upon which |
the Stevens Grant policy bad been predicat-
ell and carried into effect, they affirmed that !
those states were terrorized, that white re- /
pubhcGns were ostracised, and that the blacks ::
kept away from the pells only to preserve {
their hros. When Mr. Hayes was maugl-
rated his first step was to withdraw the |
troops and to leave the blacks to the tender t
mercies of the people whom his friends as
sured him and the country We're organized |
cut-throats, intoleraut of repuhiicanism, and |
enemies of the Union. The Sc
cret history of the southern policy is known |
to all students of cotemporary history Ii /
is based entirely upon the promises which !
Mr.. Hayes friends made to the southern !,
democrats i'll congress in order to avert the :
which threatened to interrupt |
the count and secure the defeat of Mr.. Hayes.
Those promises we're exactea Iii such 4 shape |
that their fuliillment became matter OF
necessity and not of choice. If the worst
comes to the worst We have president Hayes
promises, reduced to writing, ana securely |
slowed away, which may be produced when
occasion shall demand