The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-03-21
MIR. HAYES SOUTHERN POLICY.

effect it's status. The reasons for
this belief Of ours are plain and we
think convincing.
Tilden who would at once have re-
coguized the Nichols government
and on whom we relied for that re-
cognition, was cheated out of the
Presidency, and we might have cx-
pected the fraudulent President,
maioly successful through the stolen
vote of Louisiana, to give his assist
ance to his partners in the fraud
Morton, Blaine and the bloody shirt
organs have all been bowling that
the vote that elected Hayes also
elected Packard, and this was the
rock upon which we were fearful all
our cherished hopes were to suffer
shipwreck. In his Inaugural Ad
dress Hayes defied Morton, Blaine
and Co. and came out strong for the
"permanent pacification of the coun
try" through his "Southern policy"
which was no more nor less than an
avowed intention to let the Southern
States settle their State governments
to suit themselves. 1t is not neces-
sary to discuss here the patent mo-
tives which induced him in this way
to endeavor to disarm the bitter OPP
position he would certainly meet and
to quiet his title to the high place he
holds by means so open to adverse
criticism. He enunciated his policy
and so far he has stuck to it with
vigor and determination. His Cabi-
net was pledged to support him in it
and were selected with that VIEW
Blaine and Morton measured swords
with the new President in the contest
to seat Kellogg in the Senate, and
though his case was strengthened by
our omission to have o contestant on
the ground anil though they had a
favorable report from the Commit
tee, Kellogg has not been seated and
our latest advices indicate that the
Senate would adjourn on Monday
last without seating him. We are
still further informed that Blaine af-
ter the battle sent his envoy 1nger
soil to make peace for him with
HAYES and that he then surrendered
at discretion. Morton is too willy to
come to an open rupture with a Pres
ident who has already recognized
him by allowing him to appoint
Thompson, of Indiana, to Cabinet
position; nor will he run the risk for
KeIlogg's or Packard's. sakes of put
ting him self in the position of a pol
itician without influence with or pa
tronage from the "powers that be-"
All this proves two facts, both of
them fatal to the Packard govern
ment and assuring the triumph Of
Governor Nichols. The first is that
Hayes is really determined not to re-
cognize Packard but to let the people
of Louisiana settle that question for
themselves; and the second is that
he is able to carry out that policy in
spite of the strongest opposition that
can be brought to bear against him
in the ranks of his own party. Hav-
ing foored Morton and Blaine he will
now have no more giants to fight and
will readily crush out the pigmies
who may dare to lift up their puny
voices in opposition to his Southern
policy" The election of Stanley
Matthews to the United States Sem
ate from Ohio is another triumph for
Hayes. To silence John Sherman in
the Senate by giving him place in
his Cabinet, where he must harmon.
ize or get out, and then to fill his
place in the Senate with his staunch-
est supporter and authorized spokes-
man was a good stroke of policy on
Hayes part and betokens the sue
cess of his Southern policy.
Packard is then without friend
at Court, is in the way of the 'per
manent pacifcation" of the country
and an obstruction to the Southern
policy" and as it is utterly impossi
BILE for Hayes to sustain him with
the army, and as he cannot sustain
himself, Packard must collapse
Packard is "dead corpus" He is
defunct. His putrid carcass stinks
in the nostrils of all honest men and
Packard, fuactas oficio, must be bu-
ried out of sight. Exit Packard!
BLAINE and Bob Ingersoll are on
record as the two greatest bulldozers
of the age, and they are fast friends.
Blaine tried to bulldoze the Senate