The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-31
PEPPER SAUCE.
POURED ON THE PRESIDENTS
POLICY.
Vigorous DenuncisitOn by the Great
American ScoId, Vim. Lloyd Garrf-
sOn-Hayes Accused of Mental
Obfuscaifon and Moral OBJ
IiQuity, and compared 10
Judas IscariOt and
Benedict Arnold.


Hayes Southern policy, OF which the tol-
lowing are the important parts:
During my recent visit 10 Great
Britain l was frequently asked in differ
ent parts OF the Kingdom, what was my
| oDinIon-tirst, OF the character OF Presl-
dent HAYES; and, secondly, oi his South
ern policy. To these inquiries my an
swers were, that | had never met MI.
HAYES, and. consequently, had no person
al acquaintance with him; but in regard
to the purity and uprightness OF his char
acter | entertain not doubt; that | Was
led to regard his elevation 10 the Presi-
dency, as against his Democratic COM
petitor, as at event OF transcendent I'M
portsncs, insured no less by the popular
vote, legitimate j cast, than the Electoral
Commission; for in accepting his nomlns
tion by the National Republican Con-
vention, in his inaugural address aL
Washington, and when privately inter-
viewed BY c)lored deputations and others
after his election, he emplaticslly recog-
nized the duty Uf the government To-
guard the rights and interests OF both
races carefully AMI eQWlv.
AS TO hls Southern policy, was con-
strained TO regard 1t Us totally at yarI-
snce with sll his fsir-spoken words and
pledges--s deplorable betrayal OF most
sacred trust, discount upon intoIlble
loyalty, and n bounty upon rebel'ous
usurpatiOr; giving the sheep into the
custody of the wolves on the insane AS
sumption that the latter would lose all
their taste tor blood, provided all sheP
herdly watchtullness was Withdraw;
making consolidated South where
in the virtual disfranchlsement OF every
coIored citizen would be ruth.
lessly enforced and every white Re
publican be driven TO the wall, and st
the mex. Presidential election surrender
log the National government into the
hands of tne.e who still ostentatOusly
glory in their rebeIIious uprising to des-
Lroy il. l further added that L consider
ed President Hayes to have "io't hls
head" being the victim of an amis6le
credulity and hallucination whereby a.
power OF moral VISION and patriotic dis
crimiuation appeared to nave been los. !
and though by no means Intending IL,
that he was sowing dragons tech III the
supposed interest OF peace and good VIII,
to spring up In due time III armed re-
sis .auce unto blood.
Since my return home, SO far from
seeing any cause to alter my ]udgmen /.
ss to what has been or Is llEely 10 b.
done under this Administration as per
tainIng TO the South, l am more deeply
convinced than ever, if possible, that We
are betrayed INTO the hands OF the
Phllistiues;' that the President, how
ever smiable and well intentioned, has
not those qualities essential to meeting
crisis like the present; and that when n
talks of his "poicy' 1t means this, and
ONLY this: Absolute surrender to the uu-
repentant, mercIess and haughtlly deh
ant spirit OF rebeldom, to the exclusion OF
the General Government from any
chance OF Constitutional interference u
any part of the SDutE for the protection
of those whose rights of citizenship are
cloven down by bloody process, and
who may venture to approach the polls
only at the peril OF their lives.
See how he stands CO.. ademned out 'ot
his owr mouth. This is what he de-
clsred before the country and the world
IN his inaugural address {: "Tnat moral
obligation rests upon the National Gov
ernment to employ Its Constitutions
power and influence to establish the
rights OF the people 1t has emancIpated,
and 10 protect them in the enjoyment Of
those rights when they are lntringed or
assai ed, is also generally admitted -
President Asyes neither doubted, nor
had any cause tor doubt that Chamber
lain, and not Wade Hampton, was the
rirhtful Governor of South Carolina /;
that Packard, and net Nichols, was the
rightiul Governor OF Louisiana. In with
drawing the troops as he did, he knew with
absolute certainty that both Nichols and
Hampton would instantly, by the ASSIST
snce of q murderous minority, armed to
The teeth, leap into the high places OF
trust and dominate the states. de knew,
or WAS inexcusable Tor not knowing, that
his act would be followed by frantic yeils
OF rebel jub!lation on the one hand. and
on the other by grosnings unuttersble OF
the defenseless colored and white loyal.
lists sbsnGoned to their miserable late
He knew, or ought to have foreseen, that
he WAS closing and boiling the door to
the admission Of the troops thus with
draw, in any emergency, seeing that he
had rendered it impossible for loyalty
again TO come to the front, whether in
an executive or legislative form.
Nevertheless, when, soon after his IN
suguration, leading colored Republicans
of South Carolina called upon him to
have ; frank interchange OF views, be
assured them he did not propose to aban-
don the Southern Republicans, for he
recognized the necessity Of protection a.
present until feeling Of respect Tor the
rights of political opponents should be
entertained by the Democrats of the
South. Suddenly be discovered patent
process to insure this protection. 1t was
to withdraw from the loyal population
all moral and physical support, and to
give absolute supremacy TO their implac-
able enemies, who in view OF such extra
ordinary msgnsnimity would certainly
behave themselves, be governed by the
principles of justice aud equity toward
.nose whom they had hitherto brutsliy
prescribed, cease all intimidation at the
polls and .nsugurste political millen-
mum.
The climax of President Hayes incon-
slssency and moral Obliquity was reached
in his almost incredible speech at At
lanta, Georgia, which elected the widest
outoursts OF applause by large con-
course of the "unrecons.ructed and un-
terrified" Here Is Whist he said respect
ing the reasonable efforts of the South TO
destroy the Union and establish South
ern Coniederscy for the extepslon and
perp.laation OF negro slavery:
"You here NANNY joined the Confed-
crate SIDE, ard fought brsvely-risked
your lives heroicalv-ih behalf of your
convictions; and can any true man any
where fail TO respect the man who risks
hi. life for his convictionsf Prolonged
applause And l accord that respect to
you, and believe you to be equally il oersl
and generous and just l lesi tnat, as l