The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-06-07
THE NEW POLICY.
ny THE EDITOR.

ueE laise pTebeuses, eau hOW oC eNHs W Il
the penitentiary, under the Statutes Qf
Ohio. What should be done with NAB /
who obtains votes, and Office, under fal4 |
pretenses He should be impeachel Y
and put out of Office. M
| consider it almost an insult to thl N
intelligent people Of this country, tlEl
argue that the Republican campaign lasl
summer and fall was fought in the intel
est of the rebels. But that is just what
you are engaged in doing
Harper's Weekly attempts to prove
that the Republican platform justifes
Hayes, by quoting the following:
The permanent pacifcation OF the
Southern section OF the Union, the com
plete protection of all its citizens in the
free enjoyment of all their rights. are du
ties to which the Republican party are
sacredly pledged......And we declare u
to be the solemn obligation OF the lcgis
lative and executive departments OF the
government to put in immediate and
vigorous exercise all their constitutional
powers for removing any just causes OF
discomfort on the part of any class, and
securing to every American citizen com
plete liberty and exact equality in the
exercise Of all civil, political, and pubic
rights.
understand that you rely upon the
same resolution to show that the protec
ton of the rebels was the thing aimed at
in the above. No person, Democrat or
Republican, dreamed Of such construc'
ton until after Hayes sold out to the
rebels. Hayes did not SO understand or
why did he say. day or two after the
election, when he thought Tilden was
elected, that he could stand 1.-THE Re
publican party could stand it, but his
heart bled for the poor negroes, who
would now be handed over to the cruel
ties of the rebels, or words of that im-
port. Why did he not say that his poor
tender heart bled for the rebels, who
would now have to live under negro
rule. under Tilden2 Does any man out
side of the asylum for idiots believe that
Hayes, or the Republican party, then
thought OF such thing as the present
policy2
What is the cause Of complaint on the
part of Southern white people2 Negro
voting. Every man knows that Now it
that had been made the issue, and an at
tempt had been made to set aside the
18th Amendment in the same way it was
adopted-the legal way, we would have
no objection. But even the Democratic
party at st. Louis resolved that it should
stand. Now Hayes permits it to be com
pletely set at nought by violence and
murder. Read the evidence in the Ellen
ton trials, recently reported by "Ero." in
the Cincinnati Gazette. Read Red6eld,
Smalley, Beadle, and every other cores
pondent who has been in the South.
How can the present course Of Presi-
dent Hayes be explained When the
Commission was proceeding with the
count, there was a disposition on the
part of most of the Democrats in Con-
gress, to delay final action until after the
4th of March, which would have caused
another election. 1t was noticed that
most OF the rebel members of Congress
opposed delay, and they were loudly
praised for abiding by this Democratic
scheme The count was completed. and
Hayes was inaugurated. The rebel State
Governments in South Carolina
and Louisiana were not at once re-
cognized, and the rebels began to clam or,
and then the foul bargain came to light.
Hayes had authorized Charles Foster and
Stanley Matthews to make bargain with
the rebels to permit him to be counted
in, and in return he would turn all over
to the rebels. He demanded Of the Re-
publicans in the Ohio Legislature that
they should pay his tool, Matthews, for
this dirty work, by elec.ing him to the
United States Senate, and they complied
Hayes then abandoned Chamberlain, but
as Packard, in Louisiana, had more votes
for Governor than he (Hayes) had for
President, he formed Commission, a
thing unknown to the Constitution. to
90 to Louisiana, and break up the Repub'
lican Legislature, by bribing some of the
members with money. to go over to the
rebel Legislature. You say Hayes las
not violated the Constitution. How
about this Commission and its work, in
breaking up the Legislature of State
Hayes must then, at the demand Of the
rebels, who had him under complete con-
troll under the contract, get rid OF the
Republican Supreme Court Of the State,
which all admitted to be legal. So he
Al ItaI a
very profitable office. and by getting him
to resign as Judge, destroyed the quo
rum, and thus the entire State Govern.
ment was turned over to the rebels.
What have been the fruits of the pol
icy," SO far2 1t will not do to palliate or
excuse such horrors as the Chisholm
massacre by saying it was an old feud.
All such old feuds are now brought to the
front, when it is known no one can be
punished. This is not an isolated case
growing out of an old feud. 1t is the
natural result of the policy" James
Laws, IN East Feliciana, has been muir
dered. Three negroes in Stewart county,
Georgia, have recently been hung by u
mob. The mob used trace chains in
stead of ropes. In Georgia a negro was
accused of robbing a peddler, and mob
hung him, shot him, and cut off one OF
his ears and carried it off In West Vir-
giuia whisky is made in defiance Of law
and Government officers are openly de
fed. In South Carolina the only Repub-
lican Judge in the State has been put
out of Office by the rebel Legislature,
without any excuse. save that he is Re
..Llinnn In Inniaiann nf Clinton and