The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-24
william Lloyd Garrison's Arraign.
ment OF President Hayes.


The humiliating extinguisher put upon
Mr.. William E. Chandler by the Republi-
can Convention of his own State has not
left him quite friendless. He has still a
large body of silent sympathizers, and the
long, pungent letter which we print to-day,
addressed to him by William Lloyd Garri-
son, shows that he has one bold defender.
This stormy petrol of politics, whose talent
always lay in fierce invective, revives his
old phrase about ga covenant with death"
and applies it to the alleged bargain by
which Mr.. Hayes secured the Presi.
dency in exchange for promise to
withdraw the troops. The veteran
abolitionist takes no notice of the explicit
and authoritative contradictions which have
been given to most of Mr.. Chandeliers state
ments, and without discriminating between
assertions and proofs he assumes that the
Southern policy Of the President is the
fruit of selfish compact made by his per-
sonal friends with the supporters Of the
shotgun policy. He SCOTS at the peace
and order which are said to reign in the
South in consequence of Mr.. Hayes surren-
der. "Well," he exclaims, ''order reigns in
Warsaw, but where is Poland?" He main
tains that the boosted quiet in the South
is like peace made with wolves by
claiming up the faithful watchdogs that
guarded the flock. The cruel maltreat-
ment Of the negroes has ceased for the time
being only because the Ku Klux have fully
accomplished their purpose. So long as
the negroes refrain from voting or go to
the polls only to vote for candidates nomi-
mated by their oppressors they will not be
prosecuted, because there is no longer q
motive; but Mr. Garrison maintains that
an attempt to resuscitate the republican
party in the South would revive the cruel
ties and barbarities which were practised
against colored citizens while they at
tempted to make themselves felt in politics.
He pours scorn upon the treachery to
principle and abject cowardice of the
Massachusetts republicans in ondoning and
applauding the renegade policy of President
Hayes. Massachusetts forgive her
she's a-kneeling with the rest" exclaims
Mr.. Garrison, by way of quotation, and
adds, in his own language, Eyes, the most
subservient Of them ALL" But he confidently
predicts that there is a day of reckoning to
come.
This Infatuated rant appeals to an obso-
lete public sentim ent. No doubt President
Hayes is exciting great deal of vigorous dis
like, but it does not proceed from his South
ern policy. He has crossed the wishes of
the great office-holding interest in the repub-
lican party, and his Southern policy is made
protext for hostility which rests on
other grounds. Had President Grant
remained at the head OF the govern
ment he would have withdrawn the troops.
but no great clamor would have been raised
because no would have adhered to the old
methods in the civil service. Mr.. Hayes
has indeed made botch of his proposed
reform by his inconsistency and vacilation,
but he has given as much offence as he
would have done by genuine reform, and
the opposition he encounters is the result
of his thwarling the politicians. But Mr..