The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-09

mob governments of Hampton and Nichols
recognized; and solid south and rebel rule
established by the swift and eager action of
his administration.
4. All attempts to administer the govern
ment upon the principles by proclaiming
which he had been elected and counted in
were deliberately abandoned; the south
notified that it should not De interfered with
by his administration; southern ku klux
and negro murderers released and amnestied
by, presidential order; the enforcement Of
federal laws at the south given up or en-
trusted to rebel democratic hands: Senator
Gordon and his fellow bargainers accepted
as the intimate and acknowledged advisers
OF the president and the disposers of federal
patronage; and the black and white repub-
licans of the south merciessly surrendered
70 the insults, prosecutions and atrocities of
their democratic enemies.
D. As a necessary result of all this the
republican party at the south was disbanded,
and no republican votes were cast in states
where free ballot would show large repub-
lican majorities; 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, republican yicto-
ries only where it was repudiated: and with
solid south and divided north the con-
federate democrats are marching toward a
national 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 demo-
cratic party.
In view of these lamentable facts, it is the
duty OF true republicans to take prompt and
courageous action.
Silence is q crime; acquiesceDce and mac
ulon are political death. Can the republican
party, of heroic achievements, be bound to
an administration which is not free agent.
but Is bound by bargain TO Generals Cor
don, Lamar, Wade Hampton and other
southern democrats now in high office only
through the blood OF murdered republicans?
Does not every voter in the land know that
Hayes and Packard were elected simultane-
ously, and held by the same title, and that
when Hayes abandoned and trampled down
Packard he put an irremovable STAN upon
his own title? The republican party has
lived long and survived many assaults and
many treasons, only because il has been a
party founded upon high principles ami
mated by lofty sentiments, courageously
acting up to noble convictions. If it now
disgraces its record and indorses or fails to
repudiate the Hayes surrender, its voters
will leave it by thousands; its DAYS are num-
bered; it will die a deserved and unhonored
death.
But such is not to be its fate-at least, not
with the republicans of New Hampshire
In q elections since 1855 they have success
fully battled for radical republican princi-
pies. They sent out the soldiers of the state
to fight Generals Gordan and Lamar on the
battlefield When, three. years ago, these
same confederate generals came to teach the
men of the Granite State their political du-
ties, they were followed back to Washington
by news of a republican majority largely
increased by their harangues. They will
receive similar greeting in March, 1878,
but it will not result from indorsing presi-
dental policy which has surrendered 10
them the federal patronage of Georgia and
Mississippi, and has forgiven the murders of
hundreds of their fellow citizens, committed
that they might rise to political power, bar
gain with the agents OF a republican presi-
dent, and dominate In the white house; and
when that policy has been repudiated by the
republican party of the nation, and when
the north has been again aroused TO the
dangers of solid south and rebel rulei
which it vaiDly attempted to avert by the
election of Rutherford b. Hayes, when it
shall have again resumed the work planned
but not accomplished, by the Cincinnati
convention of 1876, of securing to every
American citizen complete liberty and exact
equality in the exercise Of all civil, political
and public rights by means of ''chief
executive whose courage and fidelity shall
not falter till these results are placed beyond
dispute or recall $50 that William Lloyd
Garrison and Wendell Phillips can canvass
Georgia and Mississippi, and colored citizens
vote there, as freely as Gordon and Lamar
can canvass New Hampshire and democrats
vote there then, and then only, will there
be national pacifcation' and enduring
peace" and the mission of the republican
party will be completed.
w. E. CHANDLER.