The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-22
PRESIDENT HAYES.
DEFENDED ny A DEMOCRAT.
Critical Review of His Policy by One whs
Favored the Election Of TildeD.

tTdtlOn mOSt pOWeIlul anu pOpuihL Ictbu-
ers men like Roscoe Conkling, James
G.. Blaine, Ben Butler, Ben Wade, Wen
dell Phillips, the Chambers, Camerons,
Boutwells, Tafts. etc. His administra-
ton has so far been Of benefit to the
country and the Democratic organiza-
ton. He has not acted In the interest
Of the Republican party. He. has
adopted Democratic doctrines OF gov
ernment. He has discarded every
ordinary obligation Of gratitude and
honor to men like Packard and Cham
berlain, the Chambers and the Gamer
ons, who 70 stole the pr presidency tide y and pre-
deliberate act, plead quietly and put
the official seal OF the presidency to the
record that every single electoral vote
Of three Southern States was stolen to
count In the man who never was elected
by the people and has no legal title to
the presidency.
I like Mr.. Hayes. I like him because
he represents innovation and ideas. No
longer can it be said that the receiver
is no better than the thief. No longer
can it be said that there is honor among
thieves. No longer can it be said that
the creators are stronger than the Gre
ated. No longer can 1t be said that the
office should seek the man and not the
man the Office. No longer can it be
doubted that there is such a thing as an
irony of fate. See how, almost with the
very first breath OF official life, Mr..
Hayes destroys the very authors Of his
beiDgl No longer can it be doubted
that conscience doth make towards of
us all. See how MIR. Hayes utterly re-
pudiates Republican and vindicates
Democratic doctrines.
like Mr.. Hayes. He is doing much
better than could be expected. He
strives assiduously to wash away the
letter Of that terrible syllable which Is
stamped upon his brow. He struggles
repose, to calm the consciousness OF
crime and atone for 1t by improved con-
! duct. For Mr.. Hayes has read the clas-
sioa n history. has heard Of Banquo's
ohosf i,o 7, v,aan a Richard III. had
vjsions what must be the slumper Of a
Hayes? There are tales that no walls
unfold, and secrets that human lips
utter. They remain forever bur,ed In
that most mysterious and inscrutable
thing called the human heart. whose
heart 10 freer from regret, reproach,
wrong or guilt--that Of r. B. n.ayes, or
that of Samuel j. Tilden? Who dol
that amid all the ceremony and serVili-
ty, all tfiea'show and glitter, all the
feasts, fun and faWning at the White
House, there does not often appear, like
Banquo's ghost, the reproachful vision
OF him who OF right should be the occu-
pant? They have kept from the White
House the body Of Samuel J. Tilden
only, not his spirit.
like Mr.. Hayes. / like the way he
has snubbed Blaine and Conkling and
Cameron, the real representatives of his
party, and one of whom was its real
choice for the presidency. like to see
three members in the Cabinet who for
six years were in bitter opposition to the
Presidents party and predecessor. I
like to see his Southern policy" Mr..
Hayes and all his organs call it an "ex-
pertinent only, and ask for suspen-
sion of judgment until time has shown
its wisdom or unwisdom. Yes, it is an
experiment. But it will prove to be an
the Republican party. It will be like
the experiment Of the mad medical
scientist, Of whom I read in boyhood.
He killed human body to have yivi.
section, and o test whether, by putting
the various parts together, he could not
vivificate it. The result Of the expert
ment of Mr.. Hayes will be the same.
After he gets through with it he will
find that the life spirit Of his party has
departed, and that all the notions and
theories Of Evarts, Schurz & Co. cannot
again restore the dead corpse to life.
His policy may be an experiment" to
himself and the country; to the Repub-
liean party it is vivisection.
I like Mr.. Hayes, He does not know
what he is doing. For the last ten
years at least, the Republican party has
owed it's ascendency mainly to it's dar-
ing, defiant, able audacity There may
have been abler political parties in the |
past; there never was one as bold as
the Republican party since the death OF
Lincoln, From the day which drove |
Seward and all of Linco]n's Cabinet,
one, out OF the party, to the
days Of military reconstruction and |
robbery, the impeachment of Johnson, |
the adoption Of the fifteenth amend
ment, the disgrace of Sumner, Greeley,
Trumbull and Schurz, the exposure of
Credit Mobilier, and Belknap, and Bah
cock, boldness alone saved the party
from destruction. remember we'll how |
one day, shortly after Grants first in
gentleman who was then |
a Republican Senator, and is now one Of
the most influential Cabinet Ministers
Of Mr.. Hayes turned pale in reading |
the telegraphic dispatches, and ex-
claimed: This is terrible, terrible It |
Will lueVlCaDly destroy Cne party. lt |
was the evidence in the Black Friday |
tracing money from the
hands Of James Fisk and Brother-in-
law Corbin to the White House. I re-
member the CONSERVATION Of the same
gentleman at the failure
Of the impeachment of Johnson. Then,
too, he saw the inevitable ruin Of the
party. [ remember, too,
his grave fears on account Of the fif-
teenth amendment. 1t was then most
unpopular measure, even with Republi-
cans. Wherever the question OF negro
suffrage had been submitted to the peo-
pie, it had been defeated by overwhelm-
ing majorities, tens Of thousands OF Re-
publicans voting against it. The infiuen-
siaI member OF Mr.. Hayes's Cabinet, to
his honor be it said, never would have
dared to force negro suffrage upon the
people. But the party leaders did. If any
body spoke about Black Friday the an