Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-02

the Presidency, and that though by
an unprincipled piece of jugglery he
was able to wrest the presidency
from its lawfully elected candidate,
that same jugglery had no power to
set aside the will of the people as
regards the military dictatorship
in the South; that not only the
Democratic majority but a large
portion of the Republican minority
was unalterably opposed to con-
tinuance of that state ofaffairs, and
Mr.. Hayes set it aside simply be-
cause he had no power to carry out
any other policy; in plain English
because he could not help it. Away
then with the empty threat of
abandoning that policy. He can't
go back on it for the same reason
that he could not help adopting it
for the reason that he is helplessly
dependent upon the Democratic
party, which is going to ensure the
true carrying out of that policy not
by any such suicidal policy as Civ
ing up the organization of the House
to the Republicans, not by electing
Garfield Speaker, save the mark,
but by securing the full control
of one if not both houses of the
next Congress, and, having done
that, defying him to 60 back on his
Southern policy; which we again
repeat is not his policy, but that of
the Democratic party, which will
be carried out by the Democratic
party under its own organization.
Readers, however, need not take
our statement to this effect. Senator
Morton of Indiana, is indisputable
authority for our proposition, for his
is the testimony of an unwilling
witness. He is no friend either OF
the Democratic party or of Mr.,
Hayes, yet he says that the attempt
to sustain any longer the carpet-bag
rule in Louisiana "wOuld have been
futile and the failure disastrous.'
He speaks of the Packard and
Chamberlain governments as "eX'
listing only in name, surrounded by
enemies, living only from day tC
day, by the presence and protection
of the United States troops" He
shows that the Republican Senate
itself would not have sustained hin
in a reactiOnary policy. He says
give Republican Senators voted
against seating Kellogg, thus refus
ing to recognize the Packard gov
eminent, a number of Republican
Senators, sufficient when added t.
the Democratic members to cOnsti
tute a majority, have steadily re
fused to recognize the Republican
State government in Louisiana sine
1873" Enough; by all evidence
the Presidents Southern policy il
, simply a Democratic policy forced
on him by the whole nation h
cannot abandon it for the sam,
reason as he could not decline
|, adopting it; the Democratic part!
owes him nothing for it except tn,
making careful provision for carry
ing it out, which it can do bette
by retaining that predominance o
power which first forced this policy
on a Republican administration; al
threats of reversing it are nothing
but idle vaporing, whoever utter
them.
One word more of counsel t.
the President, and we give it il
perfect sincerity.
If he has any propositions he de
sires to communicate to Southern
gentlemen, he will do well to selec
some other channel for the purOpOst
than Mr.. POstmaster-Genera Key
Since his letter quoted above, HI
has come to be looked upon here a
simply an agent of corruption; as ;
man who having given up his owl
convictions to his desire for office il
bent upon urging the same motive
upon other Southern men to pursue
the same course, and it brings /;
Southern man into suspicion to bt
seen in conference with him. SenC
Garfield therefore, send Butler, senC
any one rather than Key, an apOs
tate at once corrupt and the agen
of corruption.
But after all, send whom he ma!
he need not hope for the aid o
Southern men in the scheme for or
ganizing the House in the interes
of the Radical party; what he call
his Southern policy is really
Democratic policy and is safest il
Democratic hands.