The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-06
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SOUTHERN AFFAIRS.
Grants change of Front, rrsaseament
for Hayes,
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wAantsaros. Feb. 27.-After .contem-
Mating the Southern question IRON the
pinnacle OF power for eight years, Grant
has reached conclusion. He said last
Sunday positively. plainly, expllcitiy,
that he should not recognize the I've.
publican governments In s9uth garo.
lima and Louisiana. and that he did not
longer helieye In the use OF the army to
ausfain such governments. Ii they can
not atand alone, said he, they will have
to yo under. speaking for himself, he
said he was through with them, but, OF
nourse. he did not intend to Indicate
what would be the policy OF his success
sor. -, = s. .,
Grant, and SHOWS that he has at last
come to the point where the most Oh
aensible people have been for some
I, time. If they can't stand without the
aid OF the army, says the President, let
them fall. MY dear sir, but for the sup
port which YOU gave them through the
army. the last one of them would have
fallen wears ago. Only two remain,
and neither could stand a five hours
ASSAULT from a hundred men, provided
Of course Federal troops did not inter.
fere, either to keep the peace or sustain
the weak. The single question before
Hayes rs WBbIItt w bItp bb6th w ~
while longer, or let them go now. 1t Is
a mere question OF time at best. The
friends Of the Nichols and Hampton
governments do not ask that Hayes
recognize them, but that he merely re-
frain from recognizing anybody. That's
all they want.
The declaration Of Grant fell like the
cold hand Of death upon the cafpet-bag
element here. They can no longer dis
g,iige the fact that the President has
"gone back on Them" as they call 1t,
and they have only the consolation re-
naming that Grant has but four more
days to stay. They will try Hayes next.
The minute the coming man arrives he
will DO set upon to do something Tor the
Southern Republicans; that Ia, recog-
t,iye Chamberlain and Packard and sus-
tain them with tho power OF tho army.
III he refuses he will crush the men who
elected him; II he yields he will pro-
long the tumult in those States, which
will finally end In u military govern.
ment, giving him no end OF trouble and
with these questions he may wish the
National Returning Board had counted
in somebody else,
The Republicans watch Cenklng with
a critics eye, and allow none OF his in
terviewB with Democrats to pass AN.
needed by. He cannot take the arm OF
a Democrat, or two Democrats, and GO
into secret place and lock the door
and draw the curtains, and remain five
hours, without creating CONSERVATION
in the Republican camp. The Repub-
licans are as suspicious OF him as ever a
detective was OF some poor devil whom
he ''shadowed." At the bottom OF all
this smoke there must be some fire.
-Conkling Is accused Of wavering AZ to
the Louisiana business. lie stood the
Florida case first rate, swallowing
the Commissions verdict like u
little man, but there are points in
the Louisiana matter which seem to
set heavily on his legal stomach. /
don't pretend to say what they are or
what the trouble is, but trouble there Ia
OF some sort. He was conspicuously
absent when the Senate voted to ratify
the Tribunals Louisiana verdict. It Is
said that he was almost on the point,
almost persuaded to make laundering
speech against the Tribunals finding,
and perhaps carry enough Senator'S
elk only were reguitei-with him to de-
feat the ratification, and thus defeat
Hayes. The Democrats thought at one
time that lac would do this, and they
cheerfully spoke Of 1t as the great OPP
portunity OF his life. It would have
been a fine opportunity to have lost his
standing In one party without gaining
it In the other.