The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-16
Vigorous Measures. :,

It IS bruited abroad from Washington
that the President has determined upon
vigorous measures" towards the South.
If it be true, his measures must be of a
civil and not Of military character, for
he IS estopped BY Law from the employ
ment of the military. If he employs his
marshals and his courts in the South for
political effect he must be able to show
just cause for their employment, or his
vigorous measures" viii be sure to recoiI
upon his own head. Such policy towards
the South is sure to make that section en-
tirely and solidIy democratic. Not only
SO, it viii unite the party, North aud South,
as nothing else could. Only few months
ago 1t seemed that Mr. Hayes would dis.
integrate the southern wing of the Demo-
cratic party. Most of its chiefs in Con-
gress had been greatly softened and molli
fed. How win it be now? There is no
cement like persecution to bind party in
indissoluble bonds Let the fraudulent
tenant Of the White House, reverse his
Southern policy if he viii; let the "out-
rage mill" be set in motion again; let lying
vagabonds gil the land with their state
ments Of outrage and violence at the polls.
as they have done before; let Hayes send
his district attorneys and his marshals to
arrest the citizens Of the South and drag
them before United States Courts and cast
them into loathsome dungeons upon the
pe1ured testimony of some of the vilest
creatures in the form of man who cumber
the earth; the result of it all will be a
simeon blast of popular indignation which
will make an end at once Of all such abuses
of power to subserve the purposes of fac
ton, and may ultimately arouse slumbering
Justice herself to lay hold upon the man
who is prostituting the power of the Office
he holds by suferance only, and to which
he has no more moral right than the Kahn
Of Tartary or the Car of all the Russias.
The Philadelphia Times Indignantly al
ludes to this latest phase of the so-called
policy of the weak and vacillating tool
who personates the Executive:
Mr.. Hayes seems to have taken nearly the
last step on the downward path which he be-
gan to tread when he turned his back upon
consistency and truth and gave his letter of
acceptance and inaugural address to the winds
by abandoning his puny effort to purify the
civil service. OF all the solemn pledges that
he gave TO the nation only one remained un-
violated at the close of the first year of his adj
miulstration. That was the pledge of the re-
storation of local self-government to the peo-
pie, particularly to be exemplihed bv the
relief of the South from military oppression
and the brgandage of carpet baggers. This.
too, 1t is now semi officially announced, he
proposes to trample under foot, and the most
convincing earnest of his dishonest intention
he has chosen the editor of the sheet that
reyiled his policy as his medium of commu-
nication with the public And as if 10 make
his disgrace and humiliation as complete as
possible, he takes Senator Cameron and ex-
LNNA-NA ChAhN4SA " uedTt anu nome. and
falling upon the bosom ofhis outspoken enemy
weeps great tears of repentance and beps for
giveness. Ii is to be hoped that they will for
give; It is too much to ask that they will for
get. Months ago 1t was pointed out BY this
Journal that hayes was willing to descend TO
any depths to make peace with the leaders of
his party. Heretofore the opportunity has
been denied him; for the sake of his wounded
vanity, and IN sheer pity for a remorseful
fellow creature, it is to be hoped that the
time has come atlast when they can afford
to pardon him. Let proclamation be made
that the President and his party are once
more at peace, standing together on the old
war platform. Let the old sores be ripped I'M;
let the sectional bitterness do its worst: lei
fraud embrace fraud; let anything happen so
that the peril oil Democratic success may be
ayerted. Hayes must be made useful in the
next two years. After that the tool NAV be
thrown aside, but rest assured it will be des.
pissed by none so much as by those whose dirty
work il did.