The Russellville Democrat., 1877-03-22

therefore. not nnly to see all the in- trigues, bargains and scbeiaes for a compromise defeated, because they would defeat the most ilnporsant result ofai honorable settlement, but we hope sincerely that an end Of the Southefs difficulty Will be made without delay. When Nichols and Hampton are rec ogn.zcd as Governors men like Blaine Nfli no longer have ! pretext for at lacking the President in lhe Senate, nor a ground for their attempts to renew strife. With Packard and Chamber lain will disappear the whole crew ot ! Northern bloody shirt demagogues who have 80 long kept the country in tuf- moil. And when the troops in Louis jana and south Carolina are ordered no 1 longer to perform the duties of local i police, but 10 act the same harmless
 part which they play in New York and | Ohio, then at last we shall have return ed safely to constitutional government. 1 We confess that we are impatient foI the good day to come.
 And here, from the same paper of later date, is some more talk te the point, which we hope Mr
 Hayes will heed. Straightforward action in this matter is all that will
 save Mr. Hayes utter failure as a Chief Magistrate. See what the Herald says, Mir. Hayes:
 We regret that there is any hitch oi
 delay in executing the wise intentions declared by the new President in his l inaugural. We cannot doubt that h, 1 was quite sincere in his wish to restore
 local self-government in the two South ern States where it has not already been rc-established by the action of the people. Even aside from considera-
 tions of right and justice, he should shrink from the troublesome experience
 of his predecessor in propping up gov
 ernments which the people of the States reputliate and detest. President Grant 1 himself, grown wise by experience,
 became heartily sick of his own South
 ern policy, or rather of the Louisiana
 and South Carolina part of it. In Ar
 kansas, in Texas, in Mississippi Presi- 1 dent Grant refused to interfere. and l the consequence was that order imme- diately arose out of the chaos, and those States have since been as peace ful and orderly as New York or Ohio After President Grant uuwarily got
 entanelcd in Louisiana he asked Con gress to extricate him, or at least re- | lieve him from responsibility but Goa gress did not choose to act, and he still 1 had the difficulty on his hands up to
 the time of the last election. Since then he has merely preserved the peace, and before he went out of office he ex-
 pressed the opinion that the troops
 ought to oe withdrawn. X very com plete trial of the policy of interference l in some States and refusal to interfere
 in others brought him to the conclusion
 that the non-interfercnce policy is the
 only sound oue. We shall be very sor- " if President Hayes rchises to profit by the annoying experience Of bis l predecessor and insists on paying tui-
 ton fees ill the same proverbially dear school, He can never decide this ques-
 tion so easily as now. Governor Nich-
 oils and Governor Hampton are ready
 to give complete assurance of theif
 ability to maintain order. and the Pres idcnt will make mistake if he docs not at once test their promises. Tc
 those who best know the South the re-
 suit is not at all doubtful. President 1 Hayes should at once withdraw the
 troops because it is right, and because 1 he acknowledges the expediency of local
 elf-government. He should not stop
 till politicians have up bargains about the election of Senators. This would bear too close resemblance to the sale
 of justice by Court. What has the the President to do with the election oi
 Senators? What title or color of title l has he to interfere? The country ex-
 poets him to be a just Chief Magistrate,
 and not shutiiing, bargaining poli.
 tician.