Year: 1877




more all the departments, including the
local government Of Washington, would
have passed into the control Of the pres.
ent recuSant and irreconcilsble element In
the South and their Northern allies, and
this element would once more have given
q strong sectional tone to society in the
National Capital.


The time has not come for such a
sweeping change Us would have followed
Mr.. Tilden's accession 10 power. The
present half way men Of the South, such
a. Ben Hill and Lamar, would have been
swept out Of power as traitors 10 their
section, and the old rampant element
would have come to the front, the same
as in the days Of james Buchanan, for
Mr.. Tilden holds views more decidedly
in sympathy with the secession element
in the South than Buchanan ever did.
Therefore we hail, as happy deliver.
ance, the fact that four more years, with
all their changes and notifications, must
pass away before there can be change
for the worse, and by that time we hope
to see the good seed that President Hayes
will SOW spring up and bear fruit so
abundantly in the South that no odds
what party gains control Of the govern.
ment the administration will be thor.
oughly national.


This brings ia to speak OF the new
President and his frst steps. There were
those in Washington last week, both in
and out Of Congress, who were inclined
to antagonize his Cabinet selections,
especially the selection Of a South.
ern Democrat Tor the Postmaster.
GeneralShip, on the ground that the Re.
publican party was TO be Johnsonized at
the very start. These persons wanted
Hayes to select strict party Cabinet
and administer the government on u strict
party basis. They apparently had an
idea that he attached no serious meaning
to his letter Of acceptance last July, nor
to his realfrmation Of that letter in his
inaugural, Their principal conception
ofwhata change Of administration should
involve at a tims like this, was confined
to change Of Office holders-a turning
out oil Grant men and the putting in Of
Hayes men. Hence the idea of putting
Southern Democrat into Me Cabinet in
pursuance Of the new Presidents EN-.
phatic expression in favor Of policy OF
pAcitication, and Of an adherence to his
espouSal of civil service reform, as was
indicated by the selection OF such man
as Schurz, shocked the tender sensibilities
ofanumber Of these Republican, Pharisees,
and almost convinced them that a great
mistake had been made in the selection
Of n President. Had it been Bristow in
stead Of Hayes who sent in the name Of
Key as his Postmaster.General, we should
have heard in still more decided and in
dignant tones the story of the Johnsoni-
zatiOn Of the Republican party. The
idea Of putting the post offices OF the
country under the guardianship of the
successor OF Andy johnson in the United
States Senate was something APPALLING to
a good many Republicans, and they did
not hesitate to say so. They had visions
of an entire change in the service, a
general expulsion of Republicans and
wholesale reflling with johnson Demo-
Gratis.


These peopls did not stop to think that,
in the FIRST place there is to be no general
turning outof office by this administra.
tion, and, in the next, that the Preaident
did not appoint Mr.. Key until he had
first explained to him his views Of the
proper Southern policy to be pursued, and
learned from him in return that his views
were in substantial accord. with his own.
The President did not pick Mr.. Key up at
random. He had informed himself as TO
his course in the Senate and as to his ante
cedents before he became member OF that
body, and satisfied himself that he was
the sort OF man he was in quest of at
the South. The resolutions published in
to-day'S dispatches, passed by the Cotton
Exchange OF Memphis, in regard to the
appointment OF Mr.. Key, show that the
President has found man who commands
the confidence Of the best element among
the Democrats Of Tennessee. His selec.
tion OF such man shows to them, and to
all well affected Democrats throughout
the South, that he has no policy towards
that section that he is afraid TO constantly
disclose to Southern man in his Cabinet
The idea that prevails at Washington
among the best informed public men il
} that the President intends to open wide the
gates 10 the best men in the South, Ia
come inside the Republican party and
make OF it national organization in the
, fullest sense OF the word, not only in
theory but in actual practice. There is
every reason to believe that the President
has already had an extensive correspon-
dence with some Of the most influential
men Of the South to this end, and that he
has received such assurances.as will cause
him to shape the policy Of his admins
tration resolutely in such direction
Hill and Lamar, and other men Of inau-
ence who put themselves in the late con-
I test squarely against the filibusters, will
be the men who will share the confidence
Of the President and cooperate with him
, in the good work Of comforting lasting
i peace and prosperity upon the South.
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is meeting with favor in England, and
the manufacture of such cases Ia being