Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-15

inherent right of self-defense The
negro might soon be taught, especially in those
parishes where there are three black men to one
white man, that he has the right of self-de-
Tense; but with the wishes to ever suggest, or
intimate, or anticipate such horrors? Who
wishes to sec a war of races? Yet, rather than
see what has occurred in Louisiana, these men
will learn < that they can resent these
outrages; that the negro can defend his cabin,
his wife, his children, from these outrages, and
that he will be justified by the laws of God and
man in repelling these assaults, whether they
come by day or BY night. do not want to see
this done. fear it, and yet it will come,
unless you give to the negroes the
rights which are secured to them by the consti-
tuition of the United States.
lido believe that under wise policy, with an
administration that will be firm in maintaining
to the whites, all the clouds that are now lower
ing upon our house will pass away, and be in
the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
With substantial unanimity the Republi-
cans of the country seconded the determine
ton of their representatives in Congress to
declare and achieve the election and inaug-
uration of President Hayes; and the Repub-
ican party was never more courageous,
harmonious, or united than on the day of
his accession.
Coming to the Presidency under these
remarkable circumstances, what should have
been President Hayes course?
1. Unquestionably he should have asserted
in every possible way, the moral and legal
validity of his own title, and Of every step
taken by his procurement or desire in the
long series of events which established it..
2. He should have maintained faithful and
scrupulous allegiance to the principles of the
Republican, party, by proclaiming which the
victory had been won, and to the men of
that party, whose unprecedented efforts and
courage had elevated him to station of the
highest honor and power as it's representa-
tive.
3. Above all, lie should have avoided any
yielding or concession to the Democratic
party, from which the Presidency had been
SO suddenly, unexpectedly and exasperatingly
wrested
1t is inconceivab1e that any wise or honor
idency, and then suffer or effect any faint
his power at any moment from Nov. to
March 4 to avoid the responsibilities of the
office, but thought not OF doing it. On the
the counting, State and national, his active
influence was present through his counsel,
agents, and intimate friends pressing for
ward the struggle. Not declining, but eager
ly demanding and taking the place, it neces-
sarily follows that he was bound to maintain
the integrity of his claim thereto, and of the
means by which it was made effectual. Any
other course would be sure to bring de-
served condemnation and disgrace upon
himself, the men of the party who had been
prominent in his behalf, and upon the party
itself.
To make concession to the defeated demo-
cracy, and to abandon the principles of his
own party, would not only proclaim his
doubts as to the rightfulness of his own cleo
ton, but would also be an admission that
such election, even if rightful and honest,
was undesirable for the country.
If the men and principles of the democrat
ic party were to control the country, why
should they not do SO through Samuel j.
Iilden, their appropriate representative!
Why the protracted labor, the high excite
ment, the dangerous struggle, the death or
ruin of Southern republicans if the princi-
pies of the republican party were TO be aban-
doned and the administration to be made
democratic in all respects except in name?
Wisdom and honor, therefore, it seems to
me, clearly required that President Hayes
should maintain his own rightfulness OF
title, and stand by the men and principles of
his party. Had he done SO, in my belief
the Democratic cry Of fraud would have
been the merest folly; the Republican party
would have remained dominant in every
| Northern State and in several Southern
States, and would have swept the country in
the recent fall elections. Instead of all this
what do we see?
| ".
Almost the first act of the new admins
tration was to fulfil bargain that had been
made during the Presidential count, b,
which, if Hayes should be President, tn.
lawful governments of Louisiana and Soutl
Carolina were to be abandoned and tn
mob-governments In those States were to b
recognized and established.
| Certain Democrats in the House of Repre-
sentatiyes, seeing that, by the recurring de
cisiolls of the Electoral Commission, and th
regular proceedings of the two houses unde
the Electoral bill, which they had warml
supported, Hayes would surely be President
had conceived the plan of saving somethin
from the wreck. They had therefore threat
ened, by dilatory motions and riotous pre-
ceedings, to break up the count and the
opened negotiations with such timid or to
!; eagerly -expectant Republcans'as they coul
find ready. They had succeeded beyon
, their most sanguine expectations. Senate
7 Sherman had visited Ohio, and consulte
Gov. Hayes. Mr.. Henry Watterson, Den
ocratic member, and a nephew of Mr.. Star
! ley Matthews, had acted a go-between, an
on the one side Messrs. Matthews, Charlt
l Foster, John Sherman, James A. Garfield
and on the other L. @. G. Lamar, John
oil
!, Burke, and John Young Brown had agreed
S 1. That the count should not be broken u
: in the House, but that Hayes should be d
Q clared and inaugurated President and
: 2. That upon Hayes accession the TROOP
: should be withdrawn from protecting Gov
e Chamberlain and Packard, and that the ne
n Administration should recognize the govern
: ments Of Wade Hampton in South Carolin
It and F. 81. Nichols in Louisiana.
Q By certain general and indefinite lette
s since given to the public, by secret writir
now in the hands of =. A. Burke, and
: other ways, the agreement was authenticate
! and President Grant was Immediately r
o quested by Gov. Hayes's counsel on ]
9 account to recognize Packard or Chambe
d lain, but to leave the ultimate decisions as
their fate to the incoming President.
y After the Inauguration the bargain W
% speedily fulfilled. AS soon as the electol
n votes of their State were safe, Cows. Packa
e and Chamberlain had been notified
d Messrs. Matthews and Evarts, to get o
l. Gov. Chamberlain was now summoned
G Washington, and informed that he must 81
l. render. He protested against his taking {
4. The President hesitated, but Wade Hampt
&c demanded the performance of the barga
e. Mr. Matthew's was sent for came from oh
~ and within twenty four hours the Unit
States flag was ordered down in Charlest,
Sc and Gov. Chamberlain stamped out
r. AS to Louisiana, the fulfllment proceed
ed more slowly, but none the less surely. Pa.
of ard had made March Ply constitution
nd call for Federal aid, which it was difficult