The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-01-10
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the l5O,Q63 voters for Haye8z yh4
gave hii6 42,OOO majority over r'41l0es,
over 70 00O refused to vote for Cover
nor Rice in 1877, and the majority
against him was 1885, and it was only
by the support and money. Of the or
sanized rum-sellers of the State, and,
over 10000 Democratic votes precnr-
ed by RUN influence, that ho secured
his election by plurality, and the
State was saved from the fate Of Ohio
and Pennsylvania. '---''< - -'.'i'A
Look, however, at the result whore
he new policy was repudiated: 7ol f,f-F
In Iowa, Hayes had SO 228 plurality,
and in 1877 the Republicans had 51,-
823 plurality. t9 h'fffee 3 e9i37'l
In New York, Tif,en had 31,742
majority. and in 1877 the Democrats
had only a IL 264 majority, although
the new policy men promoted the
Democratic side by indifference, and
by procuring the new Admiuistratt0n
to make or announce many injudirl>.
ous removals OF Federal officers for
;he sole purpose Of irritating and huI
initiating Senator Conkling and his
friends. fl.., et..sn- .. .ggff >.
vi. "These, then, are the faee before
US:
l. Rutherford B. Hayes was elect
cd President by tho Republican party
on the platform Of oppoeition to rebel
rule aud q solid South;a with pledges
To protect, to the extent Of Federal pow
er, life. suffrage, and the free exercise
of all political rights nc the South; Was
counted in as President Only'by reason
of special pledges to the same, eject
given by his representatives aud agents
Senator Sherman and other Ohio ennis.
-aries, VINO particularly aud emphatic
ally promised that he would recognise
and maintain the lawful State Govern
nlents of South Carolina and ls0uisiA-
na. and stand by Governors Chamber,
lain and Packard.
2. Before the actual declaration, OF
his election, and to secure the same =
deliberate written bargain was made
in his behxif by the same Senator
Sherman aud his associates, by which
it WAS agreed with Senator Gordon, and
other Southern rebel Democratic, that
when he should I've President NO at
tempt should be made to enforce the
above principles Of his party, but that
the South should be allowed to man
age its own affairs in it's own way, and
that in particular he would abandon
The lawful State Governments of Lou
isiana and South Carolina, and rccOg-
nize in their steail the mob Gbverfi-
.nents Of Wade Hampton and F. H.
Nichols,
5. After his Inauguration, the
bargain was literally ffulniied;. tho
United. States flag was disgraesfully
fnauled down in Columbia aud New
Orlean-; the lawful Governments mo-
| tilted to surrender to rebel emSbs, and,
upon their hesitation, deliberately and
actively torn down by his Administrx-
tion by unconstitutional processes, and
the use of Federal patronage, vigorous,
ly welded by the same Secretary Sher-
ulan and his associates; the mob gov
ernments Of Hampton and Nichols.
! recoxuized; and y Solid South and reb-
ell rule established by, the swift and
| eager action of his Administration.
4. All attempts to administer the
Government upon the principles by
| proclaiming which he had been elected
and counted in, were deliberately
abandOneai; the South notified that 1t
should not be interfered with by his
administrations; ;SOuthernKu-Klux and
negro murders released and amneeted
| by Presidential order; the enforce
nlent of Federal laws at the South Civ
| ell up, or intrusted to rebel Democrat
/ ic hands; Senator Gordon and his fell
! ow-t,argainers accepted as the inti-
mate and acknowledged advisers of
| LllG 1IcSAdSnb aAA bAAO AAS HJSOAoOA = CA-
eral patronage; and the black and
white Republicans Of the South iherci-
| iessly surrendered to the insults. yper-
secutions and atrocities of their DEM
ocratic enemies. ,.-sss.f45.s...sT -,s-l'.
| 5. AS u necessary result Of all this,
| the Republican party at the south was
disbanded, aud no Republican votes
were cast in State where q free ballot
would show large Republican majOri-
! ties; 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; Re-
publican victories only where it was
| repudiated; and with q solid South
and divided North, the Confederate
/ Democrats are marching toward a ma
! tional victory in 1880, while .President
Hayes and Secretary Sherman look on
with as much indifference as If they
were in name, as they are. in fact allies
of the Democratic party"
! VII. In view of these lamentable
facts, it is the duty of true Republicans
to take prompt aud outrageous action.
Silence is q crime; acquiescence and
inaction are political death. Can the
Republican party, OF heroic achieves
ments, be bound to an administration
| which is not u free agent, but is bound
by bargain to Generals Gordon, La
mar, Wade Hampton and other South
ern Democrats, now in high Office only
! through the blood of murdered Repub-
Iicans? Does not every voter in the
land know that Hayes and Packard
were elected simultaneously. aud held
by the same title, and that when
Hayes abandoned and trampled down
Packard he put an irremOvable' stain
upon his own title? The Republican
party has lived long, and survived
many assaults and many treasons, only
because it has been a party founded
upon high principles, animated by
lofty sentiments, .cOurageOusly acting
up to noble convictions. II it now
fails to repudliate the Hayes surrender.
! its voters will leave it by thousands
its days are numbered it will die de-
served and an unhOnOred death. ="
But such is not to be its fAte--at least
not with the consent of the Republicans
of New Hampshire. In twenIy-seven
elections since. 1855 they have success
fully battled for radical Republican
principles. They sent out the soldiers
of the State to fight Generals Gordon
aud Lamar on the battlefield. When
three years ago, these same COnfeuer-
ate Generals, came to teach the people
of the Granite State their political du.
ties, they were followed back to Wash-
ington by news of a Republican ma,
jority largely Increased hy their har-
angues. They will receive q sisuilal
greeting in March, 1873, but it will moi
Jesuit from indOrsing a Presidential
policy which has Surrendered to them
; the Federal patronage of Georgia and
Mississippi, aud has forgiven the muir.
J ders of hundreds of their fellow citi
: zens. committed that they might riss
: to political power. bargain with the
: agents of a Republican President, and
dominate in the White House anC
when that policy has been repudiatel
by the Republican party of the nation
! when the North has been agaiI
aroused to the dangers of a Solid South
and rebel rule which it tvainly attempt
ed to avert by the election Of Ruther
ford b. hayes-when it shall hav,
again resumed the work ,pIain,s.