The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-12-29

lnlb WOtu bne ETetlutuL gave the 0tuel
Packard was crushed, and the Commits
sion returned triumphant to Washington
% be recognized, one Of them, Genera
Harlan, BY an appointment as suprem
Judge, and another, Mr.. Lawrence, by th
release Of Jake Rehm, The great Whisk,
consplraLor and detrauder at Chicago
General Hawley was offered the appoint
ment as Chief Commissioner TO the Pari
Exhibition, but declined because the cal
ary was TO be only 5000, and three off
ces we're rendered Mr.. McVeagh, but de-
clined on the ground that tlis signal ser
vices demanded more ample recog
niton. The English mission wa
next assigned him, but circumstances
have made itS delivery lnexpedient OF
impossible. One other hope remained Il
Governor Packard: He had q lAWiu
court Of justice, and might appeal to that
But there were two vacancies, and II re.
quired all three Of the Judges-Lude
ling, Leonard and John E. King-tc
make quorum. Judge King was imme'
diately appointed Collector Of New Or.
leans. Packards court was struck down
and the Nichols mob government reign
ed supreme. The bargain was in every
way fulfilled, and Mr.. Burke had no oc'
caBion, as had been threatened, to make
public the secret agreement. Hayes had
been made President by the fidelity. and
courage Of Packard and Chamberlain
and their devoted followers, and his ad'
minlstratton had trampled them down
In further pursuance Of the bargain made
with the Southern Democrats, the new
administration has adopted q So.called
SOUTHERN POLICY.
First. Entirely contrary to the an.
nounced principles Of the Republican
party
Second. Which has been carried out by
The abandonment Of all Federal intention
and effort to protect lie, property or
suffrage at the South, or 10 enforce the
constitutional amendment; and
Third. Has resulted in the enforced
dissolution OF the Republican party ut
the South, and the Generalization, diyis.
ion and defeat OF the North.
The letter Is thencelorward mainly de.
voted to a. recapitulation Of President
HUyes' acts and utterances in the line Of
the so.called Southern policy. Mr..
Chandler says, among other things: As
the policy Of the Democratic party was to
be carried out at the South, a Southern
Confederate General, Mr.. D. NJ. Key, a
Democrat who had opposed Hayes elec.
ton and in the Senate denounced his
title as fraudulent, was appointed Post.
master General, and commenced the dis
tribution Of the Southern postofiices 10
rebel Democrats. The negro murderers OF
Hamburg and Ellenton had been indicted
in the Federal Courts Of South Carolina,
but The great and good Hampton appeal.
ell for their release, and it was accorded
by the President in letter oi May II,
granting general amnesty to negro mur.
derers a. political offenders. To make
immunity more certain, the policy Of ap-
pointing as District Attorneys and Mar
shals men agreeable to the white people
Of the South-that ia, Democrats was de.
termined upon. The appointment Of
Sorthrop as DiRtfict Attorney for South
and Waldron "a Marshal for
Tennessee, are referred to, and extended
made on that Of FiIEsimmons a.
Marshal for Georgia, 10 place OF smythe,
a competent and honest Republican,
which was confirmed by the Democratic
votes and the vote Of Stanley
Matthews alone.
Senator Gordon's letter 10 W. A. Huff
on this subject is also reviewed at length.
Mr.. Chandler, in the concluding portion
Of his address, uses the following Ian
guage:
10 view Of these lamentable facts It ia
the duty Of true Republicans to take
prompt and courageous action. Silence
Is crime; acquiescence and inaction are
political death. Can the Republican
party Of heroic achievements be bound to
an administration which Ia not q free
agent, but ia bound by q bargain to Gen
erals Gordon, L. Q. G. Lamar, Wade
Hampton, and other Southern Democrats,
now in high Office only through the blood
Of murdered Republicans Does not
every voter In the land know that Hayes
and Packard were elected simultaneously
aud hold by the same title, and that when
Hayes abandoned and trampled down
Packard be put an irretrievable stain
upon his own title? The Republican
party has lived long, and survived many
assaults and many treasons only because
i has been party founded on high prin-
ciples, animated BY lofty sentiment, cour.
lgeously acting up to noble convictions.
II 1t now diagraces its record and en-
iorses or fails to repudiate the Hayes
surrender, Its voters will leave II by
and It's days are numbered.
It will die q deserved and unhonored
death.
PARTIAL REPLY TO THE ABOVE.
CHICAGO, December 2S.-WashiRgten
dispatches this morning contained q
charge made by VIM. E, Chandler in his
letter attacking the administration; that
while other members oi the Louisiana
had received rewards from
the President in the shape OF office pat
ronage, etc, that Judge Lawrence, OF this
city, was rewarded BY the withdrawal Of
The prosecution against Jake Rehm for
frauds. Judge Lawrence on
being interviewed to-day characterized
the charge, SO far as he was concerned, as
utterly absurd. The case was dismissed,
he said, solely on the testimony and on
the representation Of the government
Counsel. He had presented the case 10
the Attorney General and Secretary
Sherman after his return from New Or
leans, and by them Il was referred to the
local officials here, but he had never
mentioned Rehm's name to President
Hayes, 1tis proper to state that the
whole responsibility Of the dismissal Of
suits rests with the United States Court
Jnd ges here, and that their action was
made on the representations Of the Coun.
sci for Rhem and for the Government,
andon decisions in similar case. at St.
Louie, made during the administration Of
PTsident.Grant, which were in some
degree taken for precedent.
Adjourned without n Compro.
mise.
NASHVILLE, December 2s.-The Leg.