National Republican., 1877-10-18
Reconciliation and Fraternity.

Reconciliation and Fraternity.
The Mobile Register is probably the most
unreconstructed of all the rebel Democratic
journals in the South. In 1860 and 81 II
was the condensation of Southern bitterness,
and instead of giving any evidence of pla-
cation since, it has been growing worse and
worse. We are reminded of its continued
rabidness by the following assault upon
President HAYES and his action regarding
appointments in Alabama. This is the
return made to the Executive for his efforts
to reconcile the turbulent spirit of these
dre-eaters Read it:
Il was imagined at the outset that the President
intended to make a thorough civil service reform
and give the offices in Alabama TO hafandhalf
Democrats with Old Line Whig variations. Very
soon, however, It was discovered that his Excel.
lcncy would smile and smile again upon the tad
poles who had not as yet shed their Democratic
tails and would proceed to make his appointments
from men Of his own party. Without sufficient
inquiry into the facts, he rejected the SPENCER
wing OF the Republican party and took TO himself
the SMITH RICE wing II he had paused to exam
inc into the actual condition OF affairs In this
State, he would have discovered that the SMITH
RICE wing have no following whatever that
PARSONS Is utter failure as a Politician
that no man can say when RTCR will not jump
out of the pasture, and that SMITHS tmidity gave
Alabama TO the Democracy In 1870. Had he given
ten minutes investigation 10 the subject he would
have known that the Alabama delegation which
was admitted to the Cincinnati convention were in
no sense representative Republicans, and that the
executive committee Of that wing Of the party has
never had a respectable following These men
rrofesscd to represent All anti.SrESCER element,
whereas there Is 20 antisPENCER clement among
the Republicans of this stItc PARSONS himself
was SPENCER man in 1872 and Speaker of ;iit
SPENCER bogus Legislature. SPENCER has the Ell.
tire confidence OF the great mass of tn, Repubi.
cans. Those who oppose him are mere handful.
They consist Of disappointed ofiCe-scckcrs like
PARsoSs and SMITH, visionary enthusiasts like
RICE, and would be gentlemen who are ashamed
Of their political associates but who cannot afford
To reinquIsh the mess Of pOttage
SPENCER, like ACHILLES has retired to his tent
He Is away In the Black Hills, disguscd that his,
with that Of WAbLEIGH, were the only votes against
the admission of Senators LAMAR and MoRGAS He
saw the suicidal policy OF HAYES and the capture
Of CuSKLISG and MORTON. Had LAMAR and Mon.
GAN been kept ont, and had KELLOGG been admit
ted, SPENCER saw that the Senate at least could re-
main Republican for an indefinite time. South
Carolina and Louisiana would have remained un-
der the Radical yoke. and in lSsn the President Of
the Senate could have counted In n successor to
HAYES. His tactics were not adopted, He and
WADLEIGH were doomed 10 stand the sole defend.
crS Of the ancient policy OF the Republican party.
Heart broken, he retired to the Black Hills and In
his absence the President has fastened 10 cut OF
the heads Of his friends BINGHAM and GoopLoE
| fell at the first blow although no evidence had
been produced to show that their offices were not
well conducted. other deCaptations would have
| followed hal not those who actually represented
the colored people and who had Republican con.
| stituency hastened TO Washington and confronted
their accusers. The result has been that the
President has paused in his sanruinary
course, and now gives out that he will re.
move no officer except for cause Why did he not
say this before he decapitatei the two Mobile OIL
GERS? II looks Us though HAYES Is running his
machine without compass. He executes the ac-
| cused and tries the case afterwards. He takes n
fat jolly, welldrcssed man like PARSONS to be the
true representative Of Alabama Rcpublicnnism,
whereas the lean, cGdsverOus and Inflated SHEETS
Is the actual representative. lie takes KEY into
his Cabinet, for what purpose no one knows and
sends him cavOrting over the South only to find
that the Democracy are still untcrrted. lie turns
BINGHAM, who edits the only Republican paper in
the State out of the post Office and puts In WICK.
ERsIIAM, who has no influence whatever with his
party. He cuts of the head Of tioOpL0E who was
the JupAs TsCARiOT Of the SPENCER Legislature and
who ought To have been rewarded with any mum.
Der OF silver pieces, ana puts IN his place Relhl
lcan who denounced his party as Il fraud and who
is said to have voted for TILDES. He removes PIT
KIN. who did more to fix" Louisiana for HAVE,
than any one else. and puts In his place n milk
and water cX XCOnfcderate-W MOTH. adhercnt lik,
JACK WHARTON.
Was there ever before such medley Of absurdi
ties and contradictions? Much hcaping up ant
nking over Of frauds must have made HIM mad
lie wanders about like a child with lighted torcl
In powder magazine.
T The writer of the above chapter of bitter.
, ness was on the ticket elected in 1870, whei
: he charges that the timidity of SMITH CAV,
the State to the Democrats, and assumes I,
speak whereof he knows on that point
Whether this charge Is justified or not W,
| will not pretend to say; but this much il
apparent: The President gets little from
{ the leading spirits of the South but Hbus
for his efforts to conciliate. 1t should b
y recollected that Gov. SMITH attempted t
r. initiate the conciliatory policy OF appoint
= ing Democrats to positions, which rcsultc,
, in his being ostracized and driven from
political life. History repeats itself.
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