Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-30
HAYES, REVIEW OF EVENTS.
THE SOUTH AND THE DEMOCRATIC PAR
ACCUSED OF THE BLACKLIST INGRATITUDl

THE SOUTH AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
ACCUSED OF THE BLACKLIST 1NaRATITUDE.
WASHINGTON, May ia gentleman in
the confidence of the President, and having
perfect knowledge of Mr.. Hayes views re.
specting the proceedings of the Democratic
majority of the House, said this evening that
the President, while maintaining his natural
equanimty Of temper, was not inclined to
look lightly on the situation. He did not
think it a matter to treat with Indifference.
Great events in history had sprung from
smaller beginnings. The presens movement
originated at Annapolis, only few weeks
ago, and when the resolutions of the Mary
land Legislature we're published to the coun.
try, they We're received with derision, and
their author was characterized as madman.
Rating the movement from its birth, the Pres
ident has been struck with its rapid growth.
He points to the significant circumstance that
such independent and influential men as Al
exander H. Stephens are already powerless
10 stay the caucus mandate. Whatever the
result of the investigation might be, whatever
disclosures might result therefrom, the Presi-
dent entertains no fear that anything could
be brought home to him. If any person
made any promise in his behalf, or entered
into any bargain, they did SO without his
knowledge, and he hoped their acts would be
exposed.
The President regards the action of the
Southern Democrats as ungratetul In the
highest degree, irrespective Of other consider
ations. When he assumed the Executive of:
flee, he found the South, or at least, great
portion of it, distracted and torn asunder by
political strife, and almost bordering on revo-
luton. He gave the South peace. South
Carolina, and especially Louisiana, we're re-
stored to the rule of the native population,
and the carpet-bagger ceased to be an element
in Southern politics. The President, of
course, acted from strict sense of public
duty, and claims no reward at the hands of
the South, for doing what he was bound, in
conscience, to do; but he cannot avoid being
a witness to the ingratitude evinced by the
representatives Of the South, to the man who,
above all others, has had their welfare and
happiness, in common with the rest of the
Union, sincerely at heart.
With reference to his title, the President
conceded that it could be contested, but there
was only one way to test the question-that is,
by writ of quo ,Oarranto-the only remedy
provided by law. When he became Presi-
dent, the act creating the electoral commits
sion specially declared that nothing therein
was to be construed as imparing or efecting
any right, then existing under the constitu
tion and laws, to question, by proceedings in
the judicial courts of the United States.
against the title of himself and Mr.. Wheeler,
if any such right at that time existed. The
President admitted that Mr.. Tilden's only
remedy, at present, was by writ of quo par-
r1nto, and such writ was a prerogative
writ-not obtainable as matter of right, but
only in the discretion of the court-and he
doubted if any court would grant it.
The President also comedies the power of
Congress to pass a retroactive law, to test the
title Of the Presidency, as the office can never
be said to he in the past, but is always in the
present. As to his impeachment being or
dered by the House, the President has not
the remotest idea that such an occurrence is
even among the possibilities. The President
is fully alive to the exigencies that may arise,
and will see to it that the public peace is
maintained and the laws enforced, at whatev-
er cost. He proposes to follow the policy al
ready marked out by his administration, and
will take no backward step.-Special dispatch
to the Neso York Times