The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-22
The Republican and Democratic Poll
cies COntrasted.

Mr.. Blaine is not in the habit of pay
ing compliments to the Democratic
party and nc never INDUCES in it at all
when he can avoid it; but sometimes
his exuberant temperament gets the
better of him, and he bIurts out the
truth without intending to. In his re-
cent Portland speech, in a rhetorical
crisis, he said: .'Why. since Maine was
a State, fieyer from that hour TO this in
the sixty-two years that have interyened
has the feeling between the North and
the South been as cordial and fraternal
as it is tonight
The ex-Secretary intended this as an
illustration of the benignity of Republic
an statesm lnship; but let us see how
much credit the Republican party. is en-
titled to for it.
Mr.. Blaine could not have made tbs
remark at any day or hour during the
eight years of the Grant Administration.
He could not have made it till after the
beginning of the Hayes Administration
Why? Simply because down to the be-
ginning of the Hayes Administration,
the South was under the rule of carpet
baggers (many of them from Mr..
Blaine's own State) and birbarians,
backed by Republican authority at
Washington. Official life in the South
was a reign of ignorance and yenality
enforced and supported by the
bayonets. 1t was a dismal and most
unhappy period, when the SCOTS,
Moseses, Kelloggs. Ameses and Pack
ards held sway in the South-when
South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana
were plundered by yenai Republioan
Governors and fe gTsTafes-ss;; s.slens Veg
islatures were dispersed by bayonets;
when double State Governments were
au almost constant spectacle. and when
disorder, strife and battles between the
whites and blacks kept the whole land
in a state of uneasiness and alarm.
When Mr. Hayes came into the Execu-
tive Office all this was changed, because
Southern Senators and Representatives
in Congress plainly told Mr. Hayes that
he should never enter the White House
till he gave solemn pledge to change
it. Mr.. Hayes gave the pledge, and.
let us say to his credit, faithfully kept
it. He abandoned the Republican pol
icy in the South and substituted for 1t
the policy dictated BY the Southern DEM
ocrats, and in an instant all was peace.
Strife and disorder oeased; Legislatures
and Governors chosen by the people
were peacefully inaugiiratcd; fraudu-
1ON6tnOlS utiu
fed. the antag onism between the races
subsidized; the army was sent about its
business, and fraternal relations be-
tween the North and the South have
been growing stronger from that day to
this. Mr.. Blaines alluson to these
fraternal relations, so different from the
state of things that prevailed under
Grant, IS rather unfortunate for him,
for they were brought about against Mr..
Blaine's vehement protest and opposi-
ton. When Mr. Hayes abandoned the
Republican policy of army rule that had
been maintained all through the Grant
Administration and adopted the Demo-
cratic policy of local lself-goYernment de-
manded by the Southern Senator'S and
Representatives Mr.. Blaine openly as
sailed the change in the Senate, and de-
nounced the Hayes Administration for
making it. He has lived to see the
error of his course, but instead OF adj
hitting it, like candid man, he has
the effrontery to come forward and
claim that the beneficent condition now
existing at the South is the fruit of Re-
publican policy.-St. Louis republican.