Year: 1878

Notwithstanding the outrases tha'
have been committed upon the Repub-
licans of the South, which would in
most cases provoke violent opposition,
we must commend the equanimity oi
temper shown by President Hayes, and
the strict impartiality OF his views
bearing upon the Southern question.
The ooncliatory policy adopted by the
President, he now admits is a failure,
but at the same time 1t was Inaugural
ted with an earnest desire to conciliate
the Southern leaders, TO round on as he
says the sharp angles Of sectional differ'
ences, and to soften the asperities ofpo'
litical strife.


That this policy has been failure
has certainly been no fault of the
President, for he has strictly stuck to
the contract, whatever that may have
been, though it has resulted in making
solid South. The President sees now
that the Southern Leaders who made
pledges that all the citizens should he
protected in the right OF suffrage, aud
other inalienable rights guaranteed by
the constitution, did not exert them
selves to keep their pledges, or they
were unable to do so. We do not re.
gret that the President made the con
citation experiment, for it has con-
WINGED himself and the northern peo-
pie that no dependence can be put on
the pledges of the southern leaders and
that equal rights can only be main
tanned in the South by the strong arm
of the Government, and as soon as the
Democratic party gets fully installed
into power, ard is in possession of all
departments of the Government, it will
be an end to civil liberty in the South.
1t is only after the conciliatory policy
has shown itself to be most lamenta
BILE failure, that the President is giving
instructions to have the law vigorously
enforced, and this, he says, Is not be-
cause the Republican party has been
the sufferer, but because free suffrage
and freedom oil political rights have
been int-l f-red with.


If the case had been exactly reversed
and the Republicans had commit ed
these outrages upon the Democrats
the duty of the President would still
have been the same, and the same
course would be pursued COR their pro-
lection. There is still one resource left
yet in the South, not to give mel
their rights, hut to punish those who
would in any way prevent them from
exercising those rights, and that re
source is the United States Distric
Courts. 1t remains yet to be seeI
whether it is possible to convict a mar
for such crimes before a southern jury
If redress here fails there will be moth
ing left to do, but for the people who
love freedom and liberty in the North
to combine together in a solid compact
again get control of the Senate and
House, and then enact such Legislation
as will protect the United States officers
in the South in the enforcement of the
laws, and the citizens in the right o.
suffrage. We are glad to see that the
President intends to exhaust every lie.
gal remedy in the execution of justice
We are glad to hear him say that the
integrity of American citizenship has
been grossly violated in widespread To-
calities, and that it must and shall be
vindicated. This talk has the true
Jacksonian ring about it, and now tea.
the President, having exhausted al
the conciliatory measures that could be
devised without the loss of honor, and
is about to change his policy, let every
loyal man in the nation, who loves free
dom more than slavery, peace more
than outrages, and humanity more thar
brutality come to his assistance. The
day of sham Cancellation is past, let the
day of true Cancellation and firm anc
lasting peace dawn over the land.