Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-04-12
Alefan0rla 0axette
THURSDAY. APRIL u, 1877.
Senator Patterson on the South Caro-
linn Case.

Senator Patterson was at the White House
this morning to have final interview with the
| President, and protest against the removal Of
| the troops at Columbia. Owing to the Cabinet
| being 10 session he did not see the President
He is quite discouraged to-day, and though he
has sent repeated kilograms to Chamberlain he
| has failed to receive a response lie said r.
| day: You hear that bell striking II o'clock
| 1t sounds the death kncIl OF the republican
! party in the South" Patterson is apprehen
| slve that Chamberlain has weakened, aud that
he will abdicate and leave the State House and
give up the archives Of the State without
struggle. He says that Chamberlain left here
last week with plenty Of nerve and back. bone,
and meant to hang On. He thinks that when
Chamberlain reached home he found the ao-
ton of the President in deciding to withdraw
the troops had thrown the party into panic,
and he had nothing to rally upon.
"You see, said Patterson, 'our party down
there isn't like the party you fellows have been
used to at the North. We (that is the repub-
lican party in the South were created by an
act of Congress- and the negroes associate the
government and the troops with the party.
Now if you take the troops away the party
goes up, for the negroes there think the gov
ernment has deserted them. Now if Hayes
had gone into Office with good round majority,
and hadn't needed the vote of South Carolina
and Louisiana why he could have pursued bis
Southern policy with a better grace. But the
republicans OF the South have shed blood for
the party, and hcnca the ingratitude is all the
more cutting.
And yet what do you think, said Patter-
son. "Why, by God because l. tell these lel-
boF | IN IN nt n
the Senate they say an o democrat. Yet
Hayes recognizes Hampton, who is democrat,
and thus destroys all my political chances, and
wants mo to keep Butler out OF the Senate:
Well, | ain't going to do it with my vote.
will Just tell the fricud5 Of Hayes that will see
them in hell first "Why," continued Pat
terson, this fellow Hampton would put me IN
the penitcntiary il be could They have been
making their boasts in Columbia that they will
have to build one Or two more pcntentlartes to
accommodate the carpet ctbaggcrs.
You scc," said Patterson, that Calohoy
massacre was God send for uS. | tell you it
it hadn't been for that massacre we should
have lost Charleston county, and Hayes couldn't
have carried the State. Why, We lost 100 re.
publcans killed during the campaign, and over
100 arrests were made; but understand that
arrangements have been made with Hampton
to uollc pros. all the cases | tell you what VIC
carpet.baggcrs ought to do; why, d. it, We
ought all to resign aud let the democrats get
the Senate.
A friend here suggested that Senator Spen-
Ger had said that he he id il he vas golog to
rcsign.
Patterson. continuing, "We we ought to
all resign. can't understand what Hayes is
driving at.
The friend saii he could "Why. he is sell
iug out hia part. Talk about dividing the
democratic party South; why its all moonshlnc
Hayes knows ii IS file is deliberately selling
onl his party, and it II given out that he Will
divide the Southern democrats, 81 that inc
real inlamy Of the apostasy will b. surrounded
with this glamour, aud the people, won't see
the real okiac, in all its touncss. He has sold
II. cut. - Washington Star Of tic 9TH.