Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05

see to it that all the citizens of all those States with
out distinction OF race or color have guaranteed TO
them all the rights civil and political conferred
recognized in the Constitution or amendments.
no man on earth feels the o6lieation
more forcibly than does the President and none will
/ more Zealously discharge it.
In doing what he did President Hayes but carried
out the plan long before adopted by General Grant.
In dispatch of the I'd of March, 1877, which he
vlsed and authorized, Grant said that he means the
people OF Louisiana free in their affairs from
Federal interference as the people OF Connecticut,
and that there will be no disposition TO interfere
York.
And Senator Jones' of Nevada, one of the partic-
ular friends of Gen. Grant in recently saying that
President Hayes Southern action was a necessity,
THE election of President Hayes was all that pre-
vented Gen. Grant from pursuing the same
course l know that, siT> months before the inaug-
colored voters OF the Uni d States could not be pro-
tected by United States troops. Our government is
peculiar one 1t is founded on the principle that
the majority will rule and that the fact that it is
majority invests it with power to protect itself In
such government if the majority can not or will
not protect ITSELF it is almost impossible to protect it
by any agency outside of itself"
And in all the numerous interviews with Grant
recently published, he has reiterated the same
statement. But here is telegram from Gen. Grant
that commend to my Democratic friends who think
the withdrawal of the military from the duty of try
ing contested election cases is evidence tending to
show corruption and bargaining 1t was about the
last official order of the grand hero of Appomattox
EXECUTIVE MANSION, March /, 1877.
"Gou. S. B. Packard Nelg Orleans:
I'm answer to your dispatch of this date, the
President directs to that he feels 1t his duty
to state frankly that he does not believe public
opinion will longer support the maintenance of
State government in Louisiana by the use
of the military and that he must con-
cur in this manifest feeling. The troops will
hereafter, as in the past protect life and property
from mob violence when the State authorities fail;
but under the remaining days of his official life they
will not be used to establish to pull down either
claimant for control of the State. 1t is not his pur-
pose to recognize either claimant
&C C. SNIFFEN, Secretary
For the authenticity of this dispatch refer to Nc
PherSon's Handbook, page 81.
Here, then, was policy bequeathed to the 1ncom-
ing administration. from one going out OF wnlch the
loyal people OF this country will forever feel proud
And l sure that President Hayes would con-
slider the event in politics that would make It his
duty to return the government to Grant in 1881, q
special interpositon of fayoring Providence, as
compared with dispensaton in favor of any one of
those who have sandered and opposed him, be they
Democrats or Republicans.
It was not unnatural that the leaders of the South
should feel solicitous in February. 1871 to the
policy OF Hayes 1t was not strange that they should
make inquiry of Sherman. Garfield, Foster, and
Matthews. And with the platform, the letter of ac-
ceptance and the policy Of Grant all before them,
it not hard for those gentlemen TO give accurate
and reliable opinions to the policy of Hayes
This. and this alone, constitutes the bargain
evidence to satisfy the Ohio people that those men
have been corrupt or even indiscreet-
Whether Hayes policy of reconciliation and paci-
not Its failure will not initiate against the correct
ness of its trial. Had all the Republicans of the
country indorsed it at the beginning, and aided in
its carrying out, believe the Republican party, on
this broad platform would have swept the country.
The prospect for good results now is lar from hope
less.
No, my Democratic brethren, you will utterly and
signay fail to degrade and dele the administration
and good name of Rutherford B. Hayes with your
insane and unpatriotic cry of fraud and bargain His
administration is synonym OF honesty and execu-
tive virtue The true, patriotic men of the nation
a M llSIOTV
You may not escape the just criticism of your own
party assailing ours. The record of the Republican
party contrast with that of yours shines under the
calcium light OF the ages as pure gold while y9urs
cloudy and dross like ADVISE your great leaders TO
omit instiUuting comparisons.
The offer OF Cancellation will not Justify the people
OF the South in again resorting to rifle clubs ylo-
lence, and intimidation to carry elecuons nor can
they, in good faith, indorse the vaporings OF Mr..
jefferson Davis.
Reconciliation is one thing and with Republican
President safe thing, but Democratic restoration
is quite another and different thing. The latter
means the payment of the rebel war claims and ac-
companying bankruptcy. 1t means the refusal TO
pension Union soldiers and the destruction OF
Union soldiers orphans homes. 1t means that the
conservative, patriotic statesmen OF the South, Ike
Lamar. Gordon, and Hill and Stephens. Will take
back seats while the worshippers of the lost
On the 10th OF July, 1875, scarcely over month
ago, jeff Davis made speech at MISSISSIPPI CITY.
Among other things speaEing OF the Tlght Oh ssees
sion, and consequent rebellion, he said:
Permit me to say OF the controverted question of
secession by State from the Union, OF which II was
member by compact voluntarily made, that my
faith in that right an Inherent attribute OF state
sovereignty adopted early in life, was confirmed
by the study and observation of later years. ami has
passed unchanged and mistaken through the severe
ordeal to which it has been subjected.
without desire for political future, only anx-
ious for the supremacy of the truths on which the
Union was founded, and which believe TO be es-
sential to the prosperity and the liberties OF the peo
pie, it is little to assume that shall die as have
lived, firm in the State rights faith"
1t is to be regretted that the great mass OF the
dS4EsS this That the great
men and good men, the men L have
named, of those States, do not eountenance THIS
attempt at second rebellion, trust; but the best
of the South were opposed to secession IN lS6l
and were overpowered then, and It IS to be feared
that it will again become impossible for the con-
servative elements of Southern politics to control
The following extracts from leading Democratic
papers will show how much toundauon there Is lor
my fears:
Jasper County (Miss) Herald: 1--WE say, all hail
to the noble cheftain of the lost cause the gr and
old hero of the doctrine of State Rights" O.
Pontotoc (Miss) Democrat I'VE are STATE
Rights Democrat We fought for those principles on
the battlefields of the Confederacy, and expect
to maintain them while we live, and be buried with
those principles in our breast"
Vicksburg (Miss.) Commercial: I'VE publish to-
dav a few more press comments on the speech deiv-
cred by Mr. Davis at Mississippi City. 1t will be
seen that none of our Southern papers find any
thing in Mr.. Davis utteIanees to condemn"
Handsboro' (diss) Gazette; with regard to the
18th amendment even il it were no longer Of any
practical force or effect-which is a mistake-its
the Southern States 1t is one of the foulest
blots upon the political history of the land.'
Newton (Iiss) Report ''In our opinion Mr. Davis
did speak the true sentiments OF the South in spite
of the Vicksburg Herald's grave and unauthorized
declaration to the contrary"
Aberdeen Examiner: 'The men from the North
that we care to win will read the speech OF the
President in the sense in which it was written. and
they will also recognize the fact that il is, in all
essential particulars, indorsed by vast majority OF
the men and all the women OF the South"
Yazoo (Miss.) Herald: LET the world say whatit
will be itours to declare that the cause for which
we fought just cause, and that in appealingto
the arbitrament OF the sword We did no more than
the men of the revolution did in their warfare
against the tyranny of George Ill"
Forest (MiSs.) Register: I'VE glad to know he
Davis is still true to the principles which carried
eleven States into the in 1S61-65. ELeUeHttces
Offhe South indOrse him, besides vast following in
the West Although the secession of 81, under the
subsequent leadership of the distinguished salesman
and soldier named is at end, it by no means fol-
lows that no else will ever urge the correctness
of its principles il future issues. The time is coming
for the South and West to consider all the bearings
and distances"