The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-05-29
ALARMED ABOUT Ills OFFICE.
ERRING BROTHER KEYS OPEN LETTER
10 THE sou THERN PEOPLE.
Bloody civil War Predicted, unless they Send
Men TO the Next Congress who are Pledged
10 Stand by unycs-A Unique Manifesto.


who came into the Fraudulent Cabinet through
dlshonorable bargain, has written a letter to
tho Southern people to save himself from being
kicked out There was n secret conference OF
Evarts. Sherman. and McCrary with Hayes last
Saturday. II was decided that tho Fraudulent
Administration must make peace with the Had-
cal Republican leaders Of the North. To do
this, II was thought 1t would DO necessary to
turn Key out into the cold. Key doesn't
wish TO be turned out. lie likes TO play Post
master General and TO draw $1,000 year sal
airy. Hence, learning that he was to be thrown
as a SOD 10 the Northern radical whale he con-
cludcd that he would throw sop himself He
has thrown It tonight in tho shape Of the fol-
lowing letter to the Southern people. which he
model after the gushing articles Of Jay Gould's
young editor:
wAsnrSGrov May 2s. 1873.
The circumstances attending the passage
5o aH acsG GYof roads Tds00n IN tho 20 pFsdalS
election Of 1876 in the States Of Louisiana
and Florida, tosether with ne SUBSEQUENT
politicians and journalists. evidence that. II
both Houses OF the Forty-siXth Congress are
dent Hayes and innugurate Mr. Tilden.
The title Of President Hayes was settled ire
act creating the Electoral Commssion under
which he was legally declared elected and legal
has 10 question the tile Of any victorious con-
testant to his seat In that body. The Forty
Contestant. Mr. Ti!den. than. Mr., Hayes
the h'' House ssS Of Rcprcsentatiyes to unseat
Democrat whom he might consider To- have
| been wrongfully seated or frauduently elected.
! The leaders in this desperate attempt 70 MeXi-
canze our institutions rely conlldenty up9n
Inhe solid south . to furnish the bqlk % Of the
| democratic majority IN tho next House OF
REPRESENTATIVES, the Senate being already Sc
cured. Remembering the encouragement
| which the Northern Democrats in 1860 and
| 1861 extended 10 the southern states 10 sccede,
and the manner in which their promises OF aid
! and comfort were fulfilled. can the Southern
| people AFFORD TO Join this revolutionary move
mrnt. with the certainty that when the inevitable
! hour Of peril comes they will again be left un-
| ass sted and alone to meet tho storm from the
! North once more united 10y this attempt To- re-
vivc an issue whose settlement WAS forced by
In tho dark lays Of February 1877. when
| civil Wal. over the disputed c!ection was immi.
| uent, and patriots treniblsd for the safety OF
republican institutions, the southern MONITORS
! Of Congress oyerted the danger by compelling
! the completion Of the electoral count under the
| lazy which both parties IN Congress hal enacted.
! But now the l.eprcsentaiiNcs from the south
! efn states WIN WY irw cN.rpuohs nave
! lolnei a movement To suoNert, the results OF
their former patri0iif uctlg n and 20 remand the
! country 60 that anarchy from which, less than
! two years ago. IL was saved 10y their Efforts.
! Grant that In permitting tho autonomy of
all the states and IN appointing citizens to uico
! IN the South instead Of strangers. President
| Hayes has but dis i-'harged his constitutional
/ ,luf.. d,as thaf .N.f.a tTla Southern K,.pr.-au-
! fuiiV'. lar ntf.u5tttnp to inNaiiiafa his titln
| which tl1y rstnhii-hcd or win il Justify them
i'm hringinl, the country ngain in danger Of civil
var In fbn af,rt tn iinseat him ma inaugurate
! Mr. 'TlJnn "
49, linn S,ui6 must nov, faoo tho most moment.
! ON. erf.t- Ina ill., history since lSGl
| ~, i,r-, III. r.,aft conduct of their Rnnre-
! earfnfi,ns Ia T., admit thn fruth If Tho charg,
ihmt the people OF fle south care nothing for The
welfare II the Union. desire the downfall of tho
! republic, and would IciOiee t0 sne il again in
] volv.i In civil war /. their korressntnfives
have NOT rrn ,.niel their p ntimcut- as bnlleye
/ O., On. fl.r case. fl.u the nsutlra tIn Southern
/ Si4t.- should TAX care That u thn Flriv.siNth
| C,n.fe-- q. .oy az. represented ly men who viii
defeat the di~turiWr r. Oi the bubble pence ami
| prevent the NoNicIul2ltion ot our in-ttutl1 1us.
To do this they may le compelled o. act iudo-
| pendent oi tine Democratic party. Recent events
| have demonstrated the inability of Democratic
WeMl "a ~ Congress to resist the mandates u
! tle caucus and the t'rrlr- - the party U~h-
! tha Ona wlolle1 and the other inspired hv men
who soon willing to enltni."r the welfare of the
country and the stability oi republican iu-tItu-
| o. n. ilr the sake oi r,kru-. ,u political op-
| Of victory
II the Demoora rcpro- cntatiyes ofthc South
| could not resist the caucus command 90 pnss
| tho Potter T. solution, uuumcndod and without
ueual now wiz tley ,', nne ~ % ti' ipr,y MN
Mr. Hay.s ms PrcsII.nt and To- recocni;,' Mr.
| Tldcn
~ Is tsere'ore me Hu,y oi ine Southerh peo-
plrlo alivlH ~ WINK NNlurhttc III VlIlI re-
m"w,u "o'oun ,r VI uo M M"'om ny ars
hoM eIJVS e,rtS @ Isi, " ~, w., ~ -, M nt'u aro
snMected TO no rsstri9liohs h9t ad Gp9h eHery
eltilen by seniihG hepreS,h'atiVes to tie III Or
| b-slNtH Ovn.,l 80 lIyuSIu 70 l'sls, Al az u91,