The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-11-21
MIR. HAYES NEW POLICY.

MIR. HAYES NEW POLICY.
The all absorbing theme with the poll
ticians now is the Presidents announce
ment that be considers his Southern
policy a failure, and will henceforth use
every means at his command 10 enforce
the laws and prevent fraud and intimida-
tion of voters in the Southern States.
This change of the President has disap-
pointed the many Democrats who have
thought well of Mr. Hayes, and gives
corresponding amount of satisfaction to
the Radical leaders who are receiving
him back into the ranks of the bloody
shirters with the most proiuse indications
of confidence and respect. AS we have
never had any confidence in his fraudu-
lency, we are not in the least surprised
at his present position, which only shows
that what we have from time to time said
of him is true. No man who would in
trigue for the Presidency, or who would
accept the position when it was noto-
riously procured by intrigue, is worthy
of the confidence of the people. The
first acts of Mr.. Hayes were apparently
friendly to the South, but they were acts
of necessity, which he was compelled to
perform, and for which he is neither en-
titled to gratitude nor respect from any
portion of the people. When the Demo
cratic House of Representatives refused
to appropriate any money to sustain the
army so long as it was employed for po-
litical purposes, he found himself COM
PEELED to remove the troops from Louis
lana and South Carolina, wherefore he
made virtue of necessity, and in remov-
ing them sought, and from many receiv-
ed, the gratitude due to Southern ben
efactor. He has appointed the principal
Radical scamps 10 Offices in the South,
and has not from the beginning of his
term performed a single disinterested act
of friendship for the South that we can
now recount. His pretended change
therefore is not change of intention but
simply one Of expression. He now avows
his intention of doing what he has here
tofore done, pretending that he was not
doing it. The change is very fortunate
one for the South and for the Democratic
party, as it directs the attention of the
country directly to the questions atissue,
while heretofore his policy has been such
as to withdraw public attention from the
South and encourage the idea that the
Southern question was settled. As long
as the South was the theme for political
contention the Democrats were the gain
ers, and even under Grant, with Morton
in his full glory, the Republicans were
terribly overthrown at the polls in the
Presidential election, and Mr.. Hayes,
| after coming into the Presidency to
which Mr.. Tilden was elected, saw that
the people were tired of the Southern
question. and by protesting to settle the
subject by complete restoration of the
South, he took from the Democrats one
of their strongest political levers. The
result was that in the absence Of this
question financial questions arose, and
while the Republican demagogues made
all they could out of the solid South, the
Democrats treated it as settled matter,
so that they lost as much as it would
have been possible to lose under any cir
cumstances. Now, the action of the
President restores the question to its
original status, and brings the country
once more face to face with the problem
as to the permanence of free institutions
in America. The people of the North
realize that every blow which is struck at
the South helps to shackle every State in
the Union. The Democratic party of
the whole country should rally with the
cry, the Constitution and the Republic
must be sustained. The Capitalization
to which the Republican party is carry
ing the government should be proclaim
ed by every orator from every stump, and
the result will have very little of doubt
connected with it. The will of the peo-
pie as expressed at the ballot box has al
ready been set at naught by the fraud
and force of the Republican party, and
the people having submitted to that, the
administration is emboldened to make
further efforts to destroy local govern
ment and gather all of the power into
the hands of the President. This having
been accomplished, simple proclama-'
ton would be necessary to make him
emperor or dictator. Of course, Mr..
Hayes could not get this far along in the
destruction of free government, for he
neither has the ability nor the popularity
to accomplish it, but he might 60 so far
in the direction that his successor could
complete the destruction of liberty itself.
These are the dangers which overhang
the country, and the changed attitude of
Mr. Hayes is well calculated to secure
proper attention to them.
Il
The Hon. Zach. Chandler now pro-
poses to use United States troops to Or
ganize the next Congress in the interest
of the Republicans, like Grant used
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