The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-14
THE PRESIDkNC FALSE TO
HIMSELF.

Oh, Moses! We refer to the Moses
Of R4dicalism in South Carolina. Ex-
Governor and late Chief Justice was
thi, fellow Moses. Moses affirms
that he was a knave, and then turns
States evidence and tells Of Chamber
lain and the rest. he makes a clean
breast OF 1t, and the foulest revels-
tons ever made by one of the carpet
bagging thieves, who, with Kell pgg,
Warmoth, Bullock, Busted, Ames
aud other knaves stuffed of in
fo1l rottenness from Federal armies
to ravage desolated States. They
fondled the poor negro and used him
as an idiotic agent in plundering
ravaged towns, counties and States
Moses tells how the lies about Ku. Klux
ism were supplied for newspapers like
the Inter Ocean, and how local treas
uries were robbed. In fact, Moses
gives us q perfect inside view of the
mysteries and knaveries of thieving
adventures who desolated not only
South Carolina, but all these States.
And yet Mr.. Hayes says he would
gladly have the support of the conser-
vAtive people Of the South aud still re-
-talns these people in Office and still
maintains these unknown adventures
In places of honor and profit. He
asks no Texan to take the custom
house at Boston, but always finds in
Boston proper statesman and patriot
TO fill the custom houses and other Fed
eral Offices of Texas, and yet he would
have Texas people esteem MIN wise
and Just President. People are practical,
and however they approve Mr.. Hayes's
theories of administration and action
they can only contemplate him as an
officer through men who represent him
here IN Office. Mr.. Postmaster Gener-
al Key, simply by his investiture with
Office, became, as was supposed, an
impersonation of the Presidents pur
pose to suffer the South to govern the
South, So far is this from being true
that Mr.. Key is deemed in his own per-
son stupeudous promise never execu-
ted by Mr.. Hayes. Facts, and not the
ories or assertions in State papers, fix the
opinions entertained of an admins
tration by the people aud men,
in or out of Federal offices, art
visible, tangible facts. If the
President insists that the Union |
is perfect, that citizenship is sll-per-
vading and State lines are obliter-
ated, then let him practice the splen-
did theory IN all directions, and when
sending New Englanders to hold offices
in Texas let him also send Texans to
administer custom houses along the |
shores of rock ribbed New England.
Texas would send profits to be in
vested here, even as New Englanders |
here transfer profits gathered in Texas
to the hills about Boston. But now |
the South is doubly robbed in behalf OF |
blessed New England. The tariff is
constructed to plumber farming and
enrich manufacturing populations and
the Grant system of selecting plsce-mep
transfers many millions, annually, |
wrested frem the people of the South.
10 pretty homes beyond the Ohio
Nobody esteems the President less be
cause he vetoed the silver bill. He de
fied OHIO in this as well as Texas, an,
differing widely from the great body
of the people of the United States b.
had the moral courage TO assert him,
self a. became bis duty aud as was hi, |
right. Bat while he seems the moral
hero in this action, he bows befuI
Coakling aud Blaine in the matter .
reforming abuses IN the South, and IT.
Postmaster General IN his place in "a
Cabinet asserts = just purpose AMI J
the impersonation Of policy which ,
the Pr sid.nt fails tn execute.