The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-14
that o crow flying over the land would have
to carry It's own rations.
NOTA BENE.

III u recent interview Nh Evarts spoke
vaguely Of certain "now methods of dealing
with the imperfectly assimilated Southern
States We do not know exactly what the
Secretary Of State meant to imply by this OBJ
scrvation. Mr.. Evarts has several ways Of
addressing himself to the public understand
ing He evidently understands the art of
language from Tallyrands standpoint, who
defined it as the art Of concealjng ones
thoughts, as we'll as from that of the curtest
soldier that ever meant what he said and all
he said, and q great deal more besides. Mr..
Evarts can beterse and epigrammatic asVictOr
Hugo when 1t suits him, and he can again talk
with Oliver Cromwell against time and never
infuse one grain Of Attic Or other salt into an
ocean of wordness. The Albany Argus, speak
of this popularity Of Evarts, says:
Mr.. Evarts, only phrase maker. has three
styles of talking, One that he understands,
one that Joseph ChOate understands and one
that nobody understands. He talked In his
third style In his late interview. Let him
talk He appears to be the only man in this
country who fails to realize that since he
promoted on permitted tho monstrous perjury
of q client and made plea for a stolen Pres-
dency, under which he took office, any per-
son, no matter how illiterate. of whom it can
oeeds the fraudulent Secretary Of State in in
uenCe and respect millon-fold In this ma
ton. When Hayes and his Cabinet dissolve
their soptenato of shame in 1881 and return
TO the ranks Of citizenship, the contempt with
which they are regarded will compel oil of
them to obscurity and the least relatively de-
graded among them to suicide.
What the Argus here says of Evarts and Of
the administration has SO entirely got away
with our appreciation that VIC could not stop
to consider its relevancy.
We will now suggest to Evarts that the
Democrats are in the asccndency in this coun-
try, and will take charge Of whatever addi-
tional reconstruction may be- found necessary
for tho better assimilation Of the "imper-
fectly assimiated Southern States The
Democratic party will hereafter dictate all
new methods of dealing with this problem,
with which tho party to which Mr., Evarts
has attached himself by Il sort OF retainer"
will hereafter have naught to do.
There is hereafter to be an end of Southern
policies" The Democratic party does not
believe in "polcies'-in fact its access to
power is due more to its declaration that
policies" ore extra constitutional and there
fore, un-American than to any thing else
means the wisdom and expediency of rulers
The American people have declared their
preference for the more definite and precise
methods Of the constitution. They would
have no more Of policies in dealing with
the South. Reconstruction was q "pOlicy"
and it was q lawless arbitrary measure. The
people prefer to go back to the fundamental
law, and thoy have learned by experience that
it Is far more satisfactory in Its operation
than any policy" can possibly be- The
present administration has been truthfully
said to have no policy toward the South
This is literally true, and chat it Is SO Is q
Democratic triumph q concession that the
party has forced from q reluctant admins
tration. The day of policies has passed,
and, Us the argus observes, ''if Mr.. Evarts,
or Mr.. Hayes, undertakes what the Secretary
of State vaguely speaks about as new me-
thods of dealing with the imperlectly assm-
Hated Southern States, the majority party
that is, the Democratic party-will undertake
an old method Of dealing with two very i'm
perfectly assimilated political frauds, and
impeach them out of Office so quickly that
lightning would be tardy in going through o
gooseherry bush by comparison with the
speed with which they will be set down hard
on the sidewalk" This is timely warning.
Let Mr.. Evarts and his ilk heed It,