Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-22
THE sO-CALLED SOUTHERN POL.
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The claim that the south was freed from
the rule of bayonets by Hayes is as much of
a fraud as is the President himself. When
Hayes delivered his gushing inaugural, that,
like all similar documents, abounded in patri-
otto promises and vague generalities, the
southern people were deluded into the belief
that the fraudulent President had removed
the troops, and, by his southern policy, !"
had given the south home-rule, peace and
tranquility. But the facts show that the
President claimed honors ne never won. The
southern States were freed in spite of his OPP
position. Hayes favored the election of
Packard and Chamberlain, but Nichols and
Hampton were elected despite of Hayes's
opposition, and he deserves no more credit
for permitting their inauguration than he
does for allowing the people of Massachusetts
to inaugurate the governor of their own
choice. After all the southern States
had liberated themselves in despite OF
the opposition of Hayes and the Radical par
ty; Grant adopted the southern policy which
Hayes claims as his own. In discussing this
subject the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion says:
"The southern people themselves, by their
own constancy and intrepidity, established
what is known as the southern policy
They demonstrated that the Federal army
could not always hold free people in sub
lection to rule which they desplsed. 1t was
after they asserted their manhood that the
policy of military interference became odious
to the country at large, and was discontinued
by the Washington authorities. The change
of programme was inaugurated by General
Grant when he refused to comply with the
requisition of Ames to place troops at his dis
posal in the Mississippi election of 1875; and
before the idol of brass, known as the Hayes
administration, which southern Democrats
have been asked to fall down before and
worship, was ever thought of. Here is a
telegram for the first time published, sent by
General Grant to Go rnor Kellogg, in an
swer to a call for troops to keep the
Republicans in power in Louisiana. The
south is indebted neither to the Hayes ad-
ministration nor to the IGrant admin
istration for the southern policy but to
the valor and constancy of her own sons,
who knew their rights, and knowing dared
maintain
WASHINGTON, January Z, 1877.
To Governor kellogg, New Orleans:
| am constrained to decline your request
for aid of troops to inaugurate new State
government tomorrow. To do so would be
to recognize one of two rival governments
for the State, executive and Legislative at the
very time when committee of each house of
congress is in the State capital OF Louisiana
investigating all the facts connected with the
late elections, at which each of the contest
ants claim to have been legally elected. All
the troops can be called upon to do will be to
suppress violence, if any should take place,
and leave constitutional authority and means
to settle which is the rightful government
and which is the legal legislature. This done
the troops may be used to uphold the rightful
government In the State, if called upon in
the spirit and meaning of the constitution.
U. S. GRANT.
In view of these facts the APPEAL repeats
what it has before said: THE south owes
Hayes nothing, unless it be that contempt
and hatred which is inspired for man base
enough to steal the Presidency and honors he
never WON