The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06
THE COMING RESOLUTIONS
Postmaster General Key Re
views the Situation!
He Advises the South 10 Elect
New Congressman,
And not Bring Another bloody
War oil the Country.

In lieu Of a personal answer Il
many letters received from fliends IL
the South, disclaiming sympathy with
a2y effort TO unseat President Hayes
Mr.. hey has written the following
open letter to the people Of the South 4:
WASHINGTON, May IS, 1878
The circumstances attending the pas
Sages of the Potter resolution to inycs-
tigite the alleged frauds in the Prcsi,
Dental election of 1876 in the State OF
Louisiana and Florida, together with
the subsequent declarations Of many
influential Democratic politicians and
journalists, evidence that if both Hou-
SEES Of the Forty-siXth Congress are
Democratic the majority intend to oust
President Hayes and inaugurate Mr..
Tilden.
The title Of President Hayes was set
tied %irrevOcably by the FOrty-fourth
Congress in the act creating the Flee
toral Commission, under which he was
legally inaugurated. The Forty-fifth
Congress has no more right TO dispute
his election than he has to question the
title of any victorious contestant t. his
seat in that body. The FOrty-siXth Con-
gress will have no more right to ignore
him and TO recognize his defeated con
t%estant, Mr.. Tilden, than Mr.. Hayes
would have to send a file Of soldiers to
the House of Representatives TO unseat a
Democrat whom he might have eonsid-
cred wrongfully seated or fraudulently
elected.
The leaders, in the attempt to Next
canize our institutions rely confidently
upon the solid South to furnish the
bulk of the Democratic majority in the
ncXt House of Representative, the SEN
ate being already secured.
Remembering the encouragement
which the Northern Democrats in 1850
and 1861 extended to the Southern States
to sccede, and tle manner in which
their promises of aid and comfort were
fulfilled, cap the Southern people afford
to join This revolutionary movement,
with tbs certainty that when the inevi-
table hour of peril comes they will
again be left unassisted and alone to
meet the storm from the storm once
more united by this attempt to revive
an issue whose settlement was forced
by public opinion by an unwilling
Congress?
In the dark days of February, 1877,
when civil war over the disputed sec
ton was imminent, and the patriots
tremblcd for the safety of Republican
institutions, the Southern members
of Congress averted the danger by
compelling the completion of the cleo
toral count under the law which both
in Congress had enacted.
But now the Representatives from
the Southern States, with q very few
exceptions, have joined a movement to
subvert the results Of their former pa
triotic action and to remand the cOun-
to that anarchy from which less
than two years ago it WAS saved by
efforts.
Grant that in permitting the %autonO-
my of all the States and in appointing
citizens to Office in the South instead of
strangers President Hayes has but dis
his constitutional duty, does
excuse the Southern Representa-
for attempting to invalidate his
title, which they established. or will it
them in bringing the country in
of civil war in the effort to I'M
seat him and inaugurate Mr.. TiIleuE
The South must now face the most
nomentous crisis in its history since
1861.
To endorse the recent conduct of
their Representatives is to admit the
of the charge that the people Of
.he South care nothing for the welfare
Of the Union, desire the downfall of
he Republic, and would rejoice to see
t again involved in civil war.
If their Representatives have not re-
lectcd their sentiments, as | believe to
De the case, then the people Of the
southern States should take care in the
Congress they are repre-
ientcd by men who will defeat the dis
urbers of the public peace and prevent
he INSTRUMENTATION of our institutions.
TO do this they may be compelled to
lct independent Of the Democratic par
Y. Recent events have demonstrated
lie inability Of Democratic members of
congress to resist the mandates of the
'aucus and the terrors Of the party
ash, the one welded and the other in
pired by men who seem willing to en-
the welfare Of the country and
he instability of Republican i%nstitu-
ions for the sake of revenge on politi-
ri opponents and in the hope of divi-
ling the "spoils Of victory"
If the Democratic Representatives of
he South could not resist the caucus
.ommand to pass the Potter resolution,
Inamended and without debate, how
will they be able in the Forty-sixth
congress to resist u similar command
o ignore Mr.. Hayes as President and
0 recognize Mr.. Yilden2
1t is therefore the duty Of the South
IN people to afford a browning evil .