Daily Republican., 1878-12-03
THE PRE<IDENT,s MESS s,.r

Pubitc Credit ~ G0Od-~The YcIi0
: Fever Qucsfi0n-Hts Views on Il,
southern Question-FOreign X,
latiOns currency and ResusnI
tion.
General ilayes, as President, contiI
, ues the good Gust III Of giving to Coner Z.
. and the county, plain, dlspassionat,
! business-l ke accounts Of 'the state
: the Union" in his Message. We ar
at peace; the publ credit is 'perhal
| stronger than ever before" manufa,
turing industries are reviving aud gel
eral prosperity appears to be With
easy reach, and We should be glat- Ii
to the Divine ruling that has 50 shape
ou' affairs-tIess are the opening pas
sages of the document.
immediately following is u recon
m-lda ion 10 Congress to carefully con
slider the subject of a national quaian
tine, as suggested by the recent sever
atfliction of several portions Of tn
southwestern country by epidemic yel
low fever. In addition to the deaths
the sutfrrings and piivalion, the none,
loss from the epideiaic is estimated 4
hundreds of millions OF dollars. All this
ii is said, mas awakened general pun
lie sentiment III favor Of national santa
ry administration for internal commerce
with advisory relations with State am
nuni icipal authorities aud power tt
/ oil 1 |, ,l t.p L. /
public health wherever State and mu
nclpal power falls short, The oubjrc
is entitled to the most careful consider
atom congress can give 1t, for It Is &
gr"ss should by no means adopt any
conclusion that national quarantine
must be instituted until il is aaceJ
! tain. whether the States and municl.
palitirs Of the SOUTHWEST nave done
their duty tor their own sanitary pro-
lection.
In relation 10 Southern affairs the
President uses the following language;
The permanent p elf alton Of the
country by the cotnplrte protection nf
all citizens III ageIY etyil aud polltixai
right continues to be of paramount in
terest with the great body OF oar peo-
pie. Every step in this direction il
welcomed with public approval, aud
every interruption ot steady and uni
form progress to the desired cQnsutn
nation awakens general uneasineSs and
widespread condemnation. The r-t"ut
Congressional elections have furnished
"A direct and trustworthy test OF The I'D -
vance thus far made in tae practical
establIs hnent Of the right OF suifragr
secured hy the Constitution to the lib
Grated race in the southern States. All
disturbing Influences, real or imaginary
had been removed from all of the-,
states
The thrr" Constitutional amendments,
which conferred freedom and equality
IT civil and political rights upon ti!r
r,loref peoEle OF the South. wer"
adopted by the concurrent action of the
great body of good citizens who main
tanned the authority Of the National
tio"ernment and the integrity and per
patuity of the Union at such cost Of
treasure and life, as wise and necrs
sary I'm boaiment in the organic law
Of the just results Of the was. I he
people Of the former slave holding
States accepted these results, and gave.
IN every practicable form, ASSURANCES
II.at the thirterNth, fourteenth
aud fifteenth amendments, and
avs passed in pursuance thereof ,
'noud, in good faith, be- enforced rigt4 |
y aud lmpartlalIy, in letter and aplru,
o the ei.d, that til" nunblest citizen,
vlth0ut distinction OF race or color. |.
should, under them, receive full and |
qnal protection in person and property |
nd IN political rights ana privileges.
}y these constitutional amendments .
he southern section Of the Union, OF.
aiurd large increase of political pow
r IN Congress and in the electoral Col
eye, and the country Justly expected
hat elections would proceed as to the
race, upon til" same cir
freedom and protection as that
hich obtained in all the other state
the Union. The friends Of law auG
RIDER looked forward to 'he conduct OF
lrse elections, DIS CHEERING to the gen
al judgement Ui the country an iupOr- :
mt opportunity to measure the degree
! which the right OF suffrage could be- :
<rrcised By tie colorrd people, and
uuId be respected by their fellow citi- ,
'us; b It a more general enjoyment Of z
eclOm Of suffrage 10y the colurtd peo- 1
e, and a more just and generous pro-
ctiOn OF that freedom by ,Ae rDnmuui- t
IS Of which they form Il pait, We're a
neralIy anticipated than the record OF t
e elections dscloses. In some of those o
ates in which the cOlortd people t
I'VE been unable to make their opln- Ii
MS ,ell in the elections, the result is o
ainly due to influences not easily "
cusurcI IF remediad by legal protol- II
N; but in the States of Louisiana p
III south Carolina at large, and IN some Il
.rtjvular Congressional districts out. a'
t. q those States, The records Of the p
'ctiuns seem to compel the conclusion Al
at the rights Of the 1oIorrd voters N
We been OverridteI, and thel! par, u
'jpatOn in the elections not permitted b'
be either general or free. 70
1t NIll be for the Congress for which Al
use elections We're held, to make snch II
a:nluatIons into their conduct As q
" he appropriate to determine the tr
lilty Of the claims Of members to at
'r seats. In the meanwhile it be. ra
Aps the duty OF the Executive and eli
lirial Departments of the Govern 1t
ut, each in its province, to inquire 60
0 anJ punish viola ions Of 90
. laws of the United states which err
vr occurred. can but repeat what al
Iid in this connection in my last mes I'll
that whatever authority rests with wf
a 1 / .l ii J.. ,i,.t. 4 !