Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-04

Of national and general discord. Slavery
was great material Interest," vast prop
erty, if you will. At any rate, the white peo-
pie of the South were educated te believe so.
They had that material for their apology for
war, but to disturb the country once more
in the same generation for nothing but po-
litical spoil, in which the masses Of the peo-
pie have no interest, is nothing less than an
internal scheme"
"Does it give you as much alarm as
THE LETTER OF GENERAL KEY
to the people of the South expresses
cit gives me no more personal alarm than
any other citizen, but have learned to look
with apprehension on the growth of caucus
influence in America. am endowed with
trust which must discharge like magis-
trate. Mr.. Key did not exaggerate the case"
"What did MI. Key mean, Mr.. President,
when he said that bloody conflict might be
impending over us?''
II think you do not repeat what Key said
accurately said the President.
He then gave nearly the whole of the fol-
lowing passage from Keys letter:
"Invited to the cabinet as
SOUTHERN MAN,
to see that justice was done to the South,
required neither to apologize for my record,
nor to disown my political principles, it is
my duty now to warn the people of the
South of the danger which threatens the
country. No man need hope that the
schemes of the men who have inaueurated
the movement to unseat President Hayes can
be carried out without
"a BLOODY CIVIL WAR;
"That was what Mr.. Key wrote,'' safa&the
President ''Such schemes cannot be car
ried out without war. I swore to preserve
the constitution of the United States, and
will deliver the executive Office in it's integ-
rity to my successor"
"You do not admit, then, that Congress
has any power to displace you from that
ofice?''
'They can impeach me in the House of
Representatives and try me in the Senate
There is no other way in which will recog-
nize any attempt of Congress to remove.
But do not believe that the United States
Senate has fallen to that point when high
classed Democrats like Bayard and Thur
man, Gordon and Hill, will agree to make
the Senate a vehicle for carrying out the
revolutionary edict of party caucus by a
conviction on impeachment.
"Your distrust, then, Mr.. President, is of
the House of Representatives rather than the
Senate?'
''The Senate" said the President, sis fur
ther removed from The kind of influence
which whips Congressman in under threat of
beating their nominations. Within ninety
days many or most of those Congressman
| are to be candidates for denomination. The
time is well chosen to dragon some of those
who are, at heart, 10th to interrupt the good
order of things. If the conspiracy to cap
ture Congress should prove success, the
best operation would be to throw
THE CAUCUS LEASH
around the Senate too. AS I have said. the
Senate is more conservative by its nature
"Mr. President, may not the ambition of
| some high-class Senators like Thurman to
be President dissuade them from opposing
the schemes of these conspirators?
"No; can hardly believe, even in the
light of a sordid ambition of that kind, that
it would benefit any candidate for the Presi-
| dency to revolutionize the very Office he wants
Public OF pion is still too upright for that
| have looked to public opinion with conf
dence. A public man ought never to lose in
it for support both in my policy and
against the action of this Congress. In
that public opinion I rank patriotic
newspaper press. When politicians,
arts of a few Philistines, the great body of
the press, it's incorruptible part, responds to
the patriotic scruples of the people. That
public. opinion has come to the relief of the
very numerous Democrats in Congress who
despised this thing, and yet were caught in
COLI
''Have you read
MR. ALEX STEPHENS LETTER?''
asked President Hayes; sshis course in this
matter recommends him to this age and to
history. What pity that his physical
strength to address Congress is not equal to
his intellect in the rapid and patriotic spirit.
l rejoice IN the strength he has attained be-
fore the North and South, and the ferven+
patriotism he never conceals. There is no
ambition which will lead him against the
public policy, and that courage does not re-
tard his claims upon the neig hbors.''
''wADE HAMPTON AND GOVERNOR NICHOLS
have kept their faith with you, Mr.. Presi-
dent, through evil and good report
'They have" said the President. "Gov-
ernor Hampton has kept the whole obliga-
ton to blacks and whites, to his State and to
the Union. An attempt was made to coerce
him to break his truce, much in the nature
OF this Randall-Potter proceeding in ~Con-
SoAS'oo' oO OoOdA WHICH, dLC6InpLeQ 1t found
themselves repudiated by the people of
South Carolina, and he the higher enshrined
III their confidence. I have never seen Gov
ernor Nichols, but he has been as faithful
as Hampton. My attempt. under Provi-
dence, was to
RE-EsTABLIsH THIS UNION,
not in the fear, but in the hearts of the neo-
pie. looked to the men of character in the
South for my aliies.''
''Forgive me, Mr.. President, if I state 70
you a significant remark of Senator-elect
Pendleton about yourself. He asked me #
you had shown any weakness toward getting
nominated for
SECOND TERM
of the Presidency, and observed that yonr
strength with the people would diminish
from the moment you appeared to harbor a
thought OF a second term
@"He was quite right, . said the President:
q shall not play the fool like that. 1 saw
from the moment the prospect of the Presi-
dency opened toward me that my intentions
toward the country would not stand per-
sonal ambition beyond my own term of Office.
If was to do any good it would be in one
term. If l had further ambition it would
balk every endeayor I might make to recover
the Independence of the executive Office and
stop the work of settling the South in the
line of forbearance aud industry. often