National Republican., 1878-01-08

tions of the Democrats, North and South,
has been divided with the enemy for the
purpose of reronGiling and pacifying the
implacables Of the rebellion. This division
has been made with the assurance that it
would insure unity, peace, fraternity, and
prosperity to all sections Of the country rs
its legitimate fruits. Nearly eight months
of this experiment have transpircd, and
what do we find? We are to judge this
measure by the results it bears, and then,
after careful scrutiny, we can decide
whether or not the garnering affords any
adequate reward for the sacrifices
of principle and right that have been made
by the Administration TO propitiate the
Southern section of the country. There has
been no need Of reconciling and paciiying
the North and West, for when the rebellion
was crushed out the Union was saved from
overthrow and the foundations of the Re-
public were re-established, those sections
which had achieved these results were rec
onciled and pacifed in the consciousness
that they had rescued the nation from i'm
pending ruin. All the loyal people asked,
after the accomplishment Of this work, was
that treason should be treated as treason
and rebellion as rebellion, and that the peo-
pie should be respected according to the
relations they had borne to the national
welfare during that fearful struggle.
The South, however, after having failed
70 tear down the national edilice, must be
reconcied and pacitied by beng allowed to
re-enter and have possession of it. This is
the main feature of the Southern policy.
The Union citizens and soldiers are now
told that they must take back seats and
allow traitors and rebels to come to the
front and enjoy the places and distinctions
that had been preserved through loyal cour-
age and valor and at the expense Of loyal
life and treasure, for it is in the in
tercst of pacifcation and reconciliation.
Well, we have had long months at this
great and good work and what are the re-
| suits? Recently the colored miltiamen oi
North Carolina held parade at Raleigh in
honor Of their emancipation from slavery
and Governor VANCE addressed them by
request He showed his reconciliation and
pacitication spirit in a very unmistakablC
manner, for in this case the abundance oI
the heart gave uttcrance of an implacablt
hostility to the results of the war. He in
formed the colored people that he had nc
sympathy with them in their freedom, Rs il
was secured by unconstitutional means, ant
hence was null and void. BIT he did gra
ciOusly cOndescend to tell them that for tho
present, as they thought themselves free
they should share his august protection
Of course they were grateful, for under ex
isting policies it is n great privilege for
colored citizen in the South to be permittc,
to hold on to doubtful tenure of life
Governor VANCE is among the paciied an,
recOnciled who nurse the rirus of rebellion
in their hearts as fondly to-day rs when il
arms against the Union.
We will now take case nearer tn
national capital. The Baltimore Gdzdt
appears to be reconciled and pacified in
very generous degree, for it halls the Presi
dent in these genial and fraternal terms
and pays remarkable tribute to the Ad
ministra,ivn. We give it's own lnnguag,
for it is so thoroughly reconciled and paci
fled in temper and expression that not
word of Il should be lost
A few days ago RUTHERFORD b. HAYES vi.
tied Mount Vernon and spent the day at til
tomb of Washington. What his emotion
were on that occasion we have no means
knowing, but they must have been such q
, were never before felt by any Of the thousand
who have hitherto wOrshiprd ut that shrin,
Then for the first time that hallowcd spot wa
+ dcsccratcd by the presence Of an usurpCI
then for the first time the shadow Of
President who had not been elected b
the people fell on the grave of hin
who was first in war, first in peace, an
; first in the hearts OF his cOuntrymen: the
for the first time the living fraud paid mocl
homage TO the dead aud the crime Of the nc'
: century stood TRANSPORTED with the virtues
, the old. Did any such consciousness tOrtul
the soul of RUTHERFORD i. HAYES as he knC
by the grave of WAsHISGTuN? As ho med
: tatcd upon the career of his illustrOus pred
Q CcssOr and contrastcd IL with his own, di
, shame for the great electoral crime redden h
face, or regret for the deed suiiusc his eyes wit
> tears? Did by any chance the voice Of Il
r dead, filing his carS with its sepuchral tone
pronounce upon him the anathema of Il
patriot fathers? We shall never know. II
representative Of the fraud first triumphant
. American history Went rs ho came, in sicnc
Y Is this the legitimate fruit OF the Pres
i dents sowing? If SO, we commend it
a his lips; if not, let him break away from
h contact under which such insults Il
o offered in the guisc Of pretended irateni
r of relation and action. This is the rctul
= made to the President for the tribute he h
i paid to Democracy by sharing the N
n tiOnal loaf with them.
i But let us turn our attention for q m
c ment to the South again. and see VIII
o promises of reconciliation and pacicati,
= come to us from that direction. We Il
d below two letters that have been receive
c recently from Mississippi, which go to sho
c how reconciliation apd paciicatiOn q
affecting that class for whom the Presidcn
heart bled 50 freely when his defeat was II
nOunced in November, 1876, and when
- declared that he did not care for hma
but for the poor colored citizen in the SOut
9 These letters are from intelligent color
=, citizens Of Mississippi, and tell their oy
tale:
g PORT GIBSON Miss Dec. 20, 1871
g DEAR FRIEND: Things here are in 4
. plorlbc condition. There is no more securi
to negro life here than during the vi
" Nearly every week we hear and know
a sOluc friend, and probably relative, who h
T. met his death. Hanging and aitcrward IN
-. tilutun, Is the iRyuritc method of dispOsing
y, troublesome and imcOnvcnient ncighb