Year: 1877

We give below an extract from let
ter from the resident Of the South. once
| a Massachusetts, soldier, a man of good
record during the war, and since the war
an active Republican and a most reputa.
BILE citizen. 1t will be seen that he, and
the men of his class, who helped to carry
doubtful Southern States for President
Hayes, at the cost of many lives at the
hands of the rifle clubs OF Wade Hamp-
ton and the bulldozing ruthans OF General
Nichols, do not approve OF the policy
which has taken the governments Of
those States out of the hands of the ma
iorities, and turned them over TO the
representatives of the White League
murderers and that they are inclined to
hold the President, as well as those upon
whose advice he has acted, responsible
for the results They feel this matter
the more keenly because they already
suffer from the surrender, being the first
victims of the new policy. The letter
from which we quote is dated Charleston,
S. c., April To-


To say that / am disappointed in Pres;-
dent Hayes is to draw it very mild in
deed | look upon him as a traitor of
the worst kind. Only think of i'll Twelve
years since at a sacrifice of human life





North put down the greatest rebellion
ever known, and now the government is
turned right over to the very men who
sought its destruction, and that, too, by
a man who was made President at the
cost of God only knows how many lives
of Union men. | have lived here long
enough to know that the people of the
South are just the same overbearing. bit
ter, intolerant people they were before
the war, and always will he so long as we
have a subservient people at the North
ready to do their bidding. De Bows Re-
view, a magazine published here before
the war, and an able publication, too,
said "The Huguenots, Jacobites and
Cavaliers, who settled the South natural
ly hate, despise and contemn the
Puritans who settled the North. The
former are a master race, the latter
slave race descended from the Saxon
seffs.' The Southern people believed this
then they know it now, and are proving
it to the world. The only thing / regret
perhaps / ought not to say the only
thing-my first regret is. that / shoulder
ed my musket in 1861 and spent over
four of the best years of my life in fight
ing the Southern rebels.


The time is not far distant when men
like myself, if allowed to get away from
here alive, will have to get on our knees
to the Congress of the United States and
humbly beg for a pardon. and for the re-
moval of that disability occasioned by
having been an officer of the United
States army during the rebellion. These
rebels will soon have undisputed posses
sion of the Government, if they have not
already secured it. Claims of every con-
ceivable character, for damages, actual
and consequential, will come before Con-
gress for payment. The rebel war debts
will be assumed. and the blue.backed
bonds of every class will be paid Mer-
chants will come up for damages conse-
quent upon stagnation Of business be-
cause Of the blockade Of Southern ports,
and shipowners will claim damage be
cause their vessels were not allowed to
roam the high seas during the rebellion.
The widows and orphans OF rebel soldiers
will be pensioned, and the names Of the
manned and disabled rebel soldiers will
be pensioned, and the names OF the
MANNED and disabled rebel soldiers will
be put on the pension rolls side by side
with those of our own soldiers. The
| slaves will be paid for, and the planters
will claim and receive compensation be-
cause they were driven from their homes
/ by the Union soldiers. Some may doubt
this, but the Southerners are to-day just
/ as much the masters of the North as they
were before the war, in the days of slave
~, when they cracked their whips over
doughfaces in Congress, and compelled
them to fall into line. These Southern
masters will again crack their whips. and
their crouching, cringing. subservient,
lick splitting slaves of the North will take
from their pockets to pay these claims I;
and pay them they ought to, for their
imbecility, and for not knowing how to
prize the freedom bought at such price.


| worked too hard and risked too
much to sit down now and take quietly
such insults as have been heaped upon
the Republicans at the South. by the one
they would have died for yes, and many
did die in their efforts to elect him to
office. The Abandonment by the Presi
; dent Of the Republicans OF South Carroll


ma and Louisiana is an abandonment and
. giving up OF the National Republican