The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-08

and sale or that there is anything
in the relations of the South to
Mr. Hayes any more than there is
in the relations of the East and
| West to Mr.. Hayes, to justify tie
wild and violent harnn2ue Oh the
Sun, we dispute.
Ali open trade between L'l's'
lana and South Carolina, on the
one part, aud Mr.. HAYES. on tue
other, to secure legitimate and
honest loc.Il administrations ID
those States. in consideration Of
the acgui-scence Of then people
il the lunuoulatlnu Of Mr.. haTr$,
would be tar less rop' ehtriNloie, II
there can be any gradHtions IN un-
principled transactions, thnn the
disguised, but n"vel'thtas'ss actual,
trade which has been ma. e be-
tween the East, Oh the ohe paif,
aud the republican .eon'1ir1tors,
ON the other. to s. cure peace md
security to the bondhoItitrs, III COL
sheraton Of the "cq.i'seet.e'. "f
the country i'll the fraudulent
counting in Of the republican can
didato fsor the Presidency.
But neither the South at large,
nor Louisiana aud South Carolina
specially, have made any trade
with Mr.. Hayes nor do they pro-
pose to make one. 1t was not the
South that, III response to the threats
of John Sherman, Zach Chandler,
Morton and Garfield, to count Hayes
i'll by faur means or foul, emphGtlcalIy
declared that peace was the paramount
object; that fraud was preferable to
revolution that it was better Hayes
through forgery, perjury and all wick
ednass, than civil war which would I'M
settle business and depreciate govern
ment bonds nor was 1t the New Dr.
leans Democrat or any other repre-
sentati 70 Southern Journals that. while
the conspirators We're openly, and be-
fore all the world, carrying on their
wicked scheme, daily promulgated
these COW Ardly, slayish, al d, we might
almost say, Infamous doctrines. No, it
WAS the voice of the East and it was
the New York press. without single
exception, which daily, while they de-
bauched the populace with such senti-
ments fired the hearts Of the conspira-
tors to 80 on with their yillainous bust
ness. The South had nothing to do
with this pruce~at-any-prl policy
which encouraged and invited the
fraud that has been successfully perpc-
trated upon the country.
When it became absolutely certain
that the National Democracy, in the
interest of the bondnulders, had sur.
rendered the vi tory : thut the democ-
racv Of the Last and Sue West ; that
Governor Iildeu and Governor Hend-
rcks and the New York press had con
cIuded to acqGiesce In she inauguration
OF MIR. Hayes, and take it ont IL
quo n0rrG,a0 proceedings, protests,
howls Of Indignation, appeals to the
country and posterity, etc, the people
of Louisiana began 10 hook around
them, and to think Of what they had
endured liz the past eight years and
they saw their broken levees they saw
their metropolis declining they saw
their fields growing up in w;ldernesses.
they saw civilization dying out, the
Jungle. Authorization and ruin en-
croaching upon eyegy portion Of their
territories; they remembered how inef-
iectual their most earnest protests had
been how fiat their most piteous ap
peals had fallen, aud how impotent in
dignation and denunciaBion had proved
against 'bayonets and republican policy :;
and when they We're assured that it was
the purpose Of Gov. Hayes to adopt a
new Southern policy; policy that.
would restore legitimate government
here, pence, good will aud prosperity,
they resolved TODD what all the balance
OF the country had manifested a pur-
pose to do ;whar the National Democ
racy, and what Gov. Wilden and Gov.
Hendricks will do--acquiesce peaceably
in the presidency of Mr. Hayes en-
deavor to live i'll peace under his adj
ministration; to build up their waste
places, restore their ruined fortunes
and the prosperity Of their tdesolated
State
This is, no doubt, what the people of
South Carolina and all of the Southern
States propose to do. And this is the
sum and substance of the relations of
the South 80 the new Southern policy
OF Mr.. Hayes, over which the Sun
grows so wild and furious.
# the manhood Of the people Of any
portion of the country has been de-
graded by this policy it is the manhood
OF the North /; for the North .inaugu-
rated the policy and left the South no
alternative but to accept it. Nay, the
North has carried tar beyond tile ex-