The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-01-05

trampled them down. In further pursu-
ance of the bargain made with the South
ern Democrats the new Administration
has adopted a so-called Southern policy
first, entirely contrary to the announced
principles of the Republican party; second,
which has been carried out by the aban-
donment Of all Federal intention and effort
TO protect life, property or suffrage at the
South, or to enforce the constitutional
amendments; and, third, which has result
ted in tho enforced dissolution Of the Re
publican party at the South, aud its de-
moralization, division and defeat at the
North.
The letter is thenceforward mainly de-
voted to a reorganization Of President
Hayes acts and utterances in the line of
the sO-called Southern policy. Mr.. Chan
der 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, who had opposed Hayes's cleo
ton, and in the Senate denounced his
title as fraudulent, was appointed Post
master-General and commenced the dis
tribution of the Southern Post-ofices to
rebel Democrats. The negro murderers
of Hamburg and Ellenton had been in
dicted in the Federal courts of South
Carolina. The great and good Hampton
appealed for their release and it was ac-
corded by the President, in letter of
May II, granting general amnesty to
negro murderers as political offenders. +"
To make immunity more certain, the pol
icy of appointing district attorneys and
marshals, men agreeable to the white peo-
pie of the South, that is, Democrats, was
determined upon.
The appointments Of Northrop as Dis
trict-Attorney for South Carolina, and
Waldrom as Marshal for Tennessee are
referred to, and extended comment is
made on that Of Fitzsimmons as Marshal
for Georgia in "place of Smythe, COM
petent and honest Republican, which was
confirmed by the Democratic Senators
votes and the vote of Stanley Matthews
alone" Senator Gordon's letter to w.
A. Huff on this subject is also reviewed
at length.
Mr.. Chandler, in the concluding portion
of his address, uses the following language:
Mercilessly surrendered to the insults
prosecutions and atrocities of its Demo
cratic enemies, the Republican party at
the South was disbanded and no Republi.
can votes were cast in States where free
ballot would show large Republican ma.
jorities; the Republican party at the
North was paralyzed wherever the advice
of supporters or apologists for the new
policy was needed. Republican defeats
ensued wherever it was Endorsed, Repub-
lican victories only where it was repudia-
ted; and with solid South and divided
North the Confederate Democrats are
marching towards national victory in
1880, while President Hayes and Secre-
tary Sherman look on with as much in
difference as if they were in name, as
they are in fact. allies of the Democratic
party. In view of these lamentable facts
it is 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 az
Administration which is not free agent,
but is bound by bargain to Generals
Gordon, L. Q. c. Lamar, Wade Hampton
and other Southern Democrats now in
high Office only through the blood of muir
dered Republicans Does not every
voter in the land know that Hayes and
Packard were elected simultaneously and
held by the same title, and that when
Hayes abandoned and trampled down
Packard, he put an irremovable stain upon
his title? The Republican party has
lived long and survived many assaults and
many treasous, only because it has been a
party founded upon high principles ami
mated by lofty sentiment, eourageously
acting up to noble convictions. If it now
disgraces its record aud indorses, or fails
to repudiate the Hayes surrender, its
voters will leave it by thousands; its days
numbered, it viii die a deserved and
unhonored death.