Year: 1877

The Democratic press OF the South
is divided in its opinion as to the pur-
poses Of the President and as to their
wisdom, and then the party newspapers
differ most widely as to the proper
policy to be pursued by party leaders
and whippers-in In the South. The
once successful plan of deRouncing as
towards and traitors those who propose
to obliteratc sectional lines and destroy
geographical parties is vigorously pur-
sued, and even by Southern Democratic
organs vials of wrath are emptied up
on the devoted head Of Mr.. Key, the
Postmaster General. The american,
published at Nashville, the foremost
exponent of Democracy in the older
Southern States, approves the conduct
OF Chancellor Key and lauds the man
as he deserves. The ACdLanche, another
powerful paper in the Valley of the
Mississippi, declares its outright ad
hesion to the President aud readiness
to cooperate in the extinction of par
ties whose existence has been devoted
to the segregation of Northern and
Southern States and thus to the rob-
berry and oppression of the weak by
the strong. The Democratic party, in
it's creed as expounded at st. Louis,
differs In no national principles, ex'
cept that involving the spoils, from
that new party of which the new Pres
ident is a new leader. He never aP-
proved the declarations OF men at Gin
cinnati, and never assented to exposi-
tions of the purposes of Republicanism
made by Blame and Morton and Bob
Iugersoll. He goes back in hIs Inau-
gural to first principles, and while the
North is omnipotent in the Union and
only three Northern States, by beggarly
majorities, vote with the South, this
extraordinary President absolutely pro-
poses, in order to give the country peace
and the South freedom and good gov
ernment, to dissolve existing parties.
He began the task on the fifth of March,
only eighteen days ago, and even now
his ends are rapidly attained. The
old organs of ultra red Republican
Democracy denounce the President and
his coadjutors even here in the South,
which has everything to gain and moth
ing to lose by the execution of his pur


poses. In tie absence OF right and
reason the old process of vltuperstIon
;s employed. It was familiar in 1S60-1,
and tue folly Of its mouthpieces was
once illustrated in the courage of
Throckmorton and in the timidity OF
the multitude which, thinking as he
did, had not the nerve to stand by
him. The people have learned some
what of practical wisdom. Party spirit
Is one thing and and party wisdom
anite another. We have seen enough
of the unmitigated spirit, and propose,
at this juncture, to pursue policy die
tsted by patriotism and love of the
South rather than by spoIls of office
and party leaders. If Hayes betray us
we are in no worse condition than be-
fore. I-aGo Kew will withdraw from
| the Cabinet whenever the President Is
false to promises made to Key in
person and to the country through the
inaugural. If, however, the President
be honest and as nearly as possible, with
the pressure brought to bear against his
| liberalism In the Senate, adhere to his
declared purpose of discovering De-
mocracy in the South and radical
ism from Republicanism in the
North, wise and patriotic people
everywhere. and especially in the
South, will assent and cooperate in
assuring his success. Denunciation
and the cry of 'treason to party"
which, in this case, means truth to
God and country and to these hapless
States, will avail nothing, and Presi-
dent Hayes, if he accomplish the pur-
pose here defined, must be forever rec


ognized as the country's chiefest bene.
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