The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-07

Hayes. There were the rebel claims.
There was Andersonville," There was
the unextinguished hostility" of the
white people of the South to the black
race. There was the enmity of every
Southern Democrat to the Union. TWAS
not yet safe to intrust power to any of
them. These were the propositions on
which the Republican party went
before the people, and on these
they were beaten. Being beaten,
and being compelled to steal the
Presidency, they abandoned them,
confessing themselves to be liars. There
is not an issue the Republicans at
tempted to raise in the last canvass
which their dc facto President has not
acknowledged to be false. which the
present policy of the Republican party
has not pronounced SANDER upon the
South and upon the Democratic party
of the country. Mr.. Hayes says that
he is bound to accept the professions of
the Democrats of Louisiana as sincere,
when they give assurances of friendli-
ness and fair treatment toward the col
ored people of that State, and this is
done under the direction of ADLER men
who have become his advisers. There is
no complaint of maltreatment or of I'M
equal treatment of the negroes
save in these States. When Hayes
heard that those three States had
given Democratic majorities, had
elected their own Democratic State
Governments, and had by the same
token defeated Mr.. Hayes, he is reported
to have said that he didn't care for him
self, but he aodS sorry for the poor blacks
of those States. Since, by the aid of
Returning Boards, and an eisht-to-
seven commission, Hayes has been in
augurated President de facto, he has
announced that he shall pursue policy
of complete non-intervention in those
States. He will leave the people to take
care Of themselves, and he has now inn
desire of the Democrats of Louisiana,
and, Of course, of all other Southern
States, to do justice 20 the colored people
of the South.
This is the change of base, the flank
movement, the abandonment of the party
shibboleth, the confession of dishonor.
The Republican party now goes before
the country with no winning issue ii has
not borrowed from the Democratic party.
1t gives up the ghost and becomes Demo-
cratic in the South, still hoping to remain
Republican in the North. The abandon
ment of the Republican policy in the
South by an Administration that stole its
power will be fatal to its power in the
North. 1t has held the North together,
almost, by that accursed yell since Che
war. The party, with indecent and impol-
tito haste, on reaching power, spurDs that
war-try, and denounces IL az henesy.
What then, does this abandonm ent
mean2 If the quarrel it creates does
not promptly disrupt the Republican
party, and that is not probable in view
of the cohesive power of the public
spoiIs, of the questions it expels from
public notice and political harangue, it
means lifting into prominence the fan
damental question of free government.
Then Massachusetts, herself is a Demo
cratic State. Massachusetts, is the home
of the town-meeting, and when the or
ganic law of free government is con-
sidered and voted on all New England is
Democratic. Upon all the public
questions that can arise outside OF
the bigotry touching the Southern ques
ton, the Democratic party has the con-
fidence and the votes of the country
it is the party of the people. AS the
Republican party has admitted the rot
tenness OF the foundation on which it
has been resting for several years, this
means that the Democratic party is the
party of the future, as it was for the
most part, the dominant party in the
country for three score years. This
strange Republican compliment to its
policy, to its honesty, to its patriotism,
this acknowledgement that all the essen
tial things the Democratic party said in
the recent campaign was true, cannot
weaken it in the respect of the Ameri-
can people. The meaning is that when
the Republican party threw away the
bloody shirt it threw away its all.