New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-03-26


dncted into II. That is my Southern policy ana the
whole of it, The very head and front OF my offending
against the South hath this extent, no more
IL was that same sentiment which. as j understand,
animated the Cincinnati Convention when 1t declared ID
1876, 1t
To be the solemn obligation the Legislative and Ex
ecutive departments OF the Government 10 put INTO I'M
mediate and vigorous exercise all their constitutional
Sast % snT cas and for securing to every Amer
can citizen complete liberty and exact eauay IN the
end we imperativeiyi demand congress and Chief
Executive whose courage and fidelity 10 THESE duties
shall not alter until these results are placed oeyohu
dispute or recall.
And IL was this sentiment which. understand in
spred the President when in his letter OF acceptance
he said: "what the South most needs is peace ana
peace depends upon the supremacy OF the law Ihere
can be no enduring peace II the constitutional rgDs Vi
any portion OF the people are habituay disregarded
OF course did not like believe that tho President
would abandon any part OF this policy so reasonable In
itself and explicitly proclaimed both by himself and by
the convention which placed him In nomination
Concerning the Civil Service, my policy Is not o
more complicated would have that service admins
tod Inv the hest men attanabe and believe Repub-
lean President should, the Cincinnati Convention de-
clared select Republicans for all those places where
harmony and vigor of administration require its Pocg
TO be represented" believe as the Presdent oecaIeu
in his inaugural address, that commissioned the
officer should be secure In MS tenure as iog as MS
personal character remains untarnlshed ana the per
Torrance of his duty satisfactory such was the com
mand of the Tenureof-0fcc Act. struggled ior that
son and struggled just hard against its repeal under
the Administration OF President Grant
A CAUsTIC BIOGRAPHY OF sCHURz
This IL the whole of my Civil Service policy until l
listened to the which the President sent 10 US
upon the opening Of this session Of Congress was not
quite sure whether he or was not IN ACCORD Win
those views He elected by party, 80 per cent OF
which | am confident hold precisely those views, ana
DO not propose abandon them. whoever may counsel
such abandonment. srll, some things had happened
since his Inauguration not at all in harmony with the
policies have indicated He had selected for his Cabi
net one man who not Republican, but Democrat
STILL the individual well known TO me- ana De-
leved so implicitly in the moderation OF his opinions, IN
the business of his sentiments and the integrity OF his
character that II could not have advised his selection
could not and did not complain OF it.
BE had selected one other, who although not o
Democrat vas yet not q Republican; who was equally
at home with all parties and in all places. BY turns
he had been everywhere and had epoused and deserted
every party He spoke like an oracle, and his facle
speech could be fitted TO the vcissudes OF parties AS
readily as doubefaced satin can b. turned 10 hide me
accidents OF society His critiques upon his p0ltca
associates always gave HIM popularity with his pOea
opponents; end he resenbled the Prophets III never
being without honor except where he happened
20 reside. Inconstant In every thing else, ne mas
that before he was age and he has pursued it
since without varabeness or shadow OF turning, his
hrst enterprise was TO reyolutloniZe the gov rlmelt
under which born. That failed, ana ne ned ne
fara sho
clients He was Minister at Madrid, but did not recon
strlct the diplomacy of the world lie WAS malor-Sen
era but peryerse history refused 10 record Ms victories
He was newspaper correspondent and WAS unsuccess-
full He was an editor in Detroit, aud was not SUCCESSFUL
Republicans Of that State bore him into this Senate Ih
elevation did not prove fatal to him, but DIS party dle
died not in spite OF him, but because OF him. and under
blows which he inflicted Having outraged one party,
and not yet received absOuon nom the other he de
DI HAVING failed as dealer legitiuate politics. ne
turned his attention TO the eontraband aTllcie IN Ie,
b,f,,o 70 Load
the Baltimore market and taught the DEMOCRACY OF i9d,
SrSmiscd to beat Grant" For six years he raduced
the Republican party PROBABLY nromghou more e @
An Of July 1862 TO the Attn of March 1877 led the Ke
p pu6 adys ed his country to :enown al whose ap
proach hut recently Eastern Continent stood up and
uncovered. be threw mere mud than. any died2e not
worked by steam ever threw III the same time
He did not fail 10 learn wisdom from experience. In
1872 he found 1t was not easy u make the country ac
cent his candidate, but ii did not follow that lie could
not make the country's candidate accept HIM so IN
1876 be convened his disciples once more In the Cy Oh
NewYork. That he might be sure OF go9q society g IS
thar convention only by card" 10 that assembly he
revealed doctrine quite new N the science OF poll.
measures but by that platforms were " WORKOUT
caprap thai the retormers were indifferent alike TO
ali platforms but were determined 10 have for Tie Pres
deney no man whose very is not conclusive evil
dence Of the most uncopromising determination o. the
American people 10 make 'i'' pure 00'''"-'"'
We vouchsafcd no hint 20 the country where such
man Was 10 be found He himself placed II the head
OF committee TO determine which one or INC polilcaI
Iares happened 10 stumble upon n ana' % i "I IL
Hayes, OF ONO some two weeks later, me ~. LOUIS
Convention presented the OF Samuel j. Tden. Al
length the country chccrcd by the announcement
thai the Committee OF Revision appointed III NeWfork,
had discovered the nominee Of the Cneinnau COpVe
ton thai man whose name conclusive evidence Of
the mcst uncompromising determination OF the
a AnSIlGi" on cSG more" Ana by happy CO.
incidence it seems that TIE nom nee nee o. st cor y,
Revision. had truIa hed in no other business mo
very man to master the varied and complicated inter
ests comncdto the Interior Department 90 no a.
ser that these two discoveries held ~ eacA other The
relation OF cause ana erect 30 4ar ron hhow" Ia
do not know, does the world Know Which ls the
oldest discovery ,,,. -
upon these Selections rs matters OF taste IL not
dicnt or kepaDcan 10 e Ts w Yorst that cod
be said either OF these acts was that in matters where
the President had freedom Of choice ne had MADE bad
choice not tho best choice possible.
THE TRANsMOGRIFICATION N LOUISIANA.
One other act was open grave criticism In the Sc
lection OF Secretaries AMI other ubordnatcs the Pres
dent has great latitude for the exercise OF dscreuon but
IN the selection OF Of states he has no disce-
ton whatever The people Of the several States in the
exercise Of their uncontrolled discretion select then
own Governors Upon the President charged the single
duty recognizing such Governors as the people OF the
several states may from time TO time make choice or
When tie President was inaugurated. Stepaon b.
Packard was Governor OF louisiana within sixty days
after that inauguration he ceased to be Governor When
he disappeared tho win Of Louisiana was subverted aud
trample.l upon. Such an event Is always matter oil
sincere regret 30 all who spect Republican Institutions
But very few such events would DC required
TO render Republican institutions that by-word
and tAat kissing on this continent which
for centuries they have been the other.
CouemuuraneOusY with the disappearance OF Governor
Packard in Louisiana there began 10 be much talk some
appau,c aud more criticism of what called the
Presidents Southern policy" There to my knowl
edge nc authoritative definition of that policy. was
NOT myself prepared to believe it covered or cOnnved at
such events as had transpired In Louisiana.
supposed Packard ceased to be Governor OF Louisiana
because he could not help himself and because the Pres
dent felt unabe TO help HIM could not believe the
President WAS guided by policy but by necessity, either
actual or seeming True, the newspapers reported tina,
certain gentlemen had been sent TO Louisiana, hent IL
t.n