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Show CAN THE LEOl'ATtD CHAN0.R HIS HPUT81 if the reports of (ho proluiilo action of Air, Ifnyca in tho or:iniz:ition of bin ciibiuut uiul tho conduct of liia lulminialrutiou which have gained credoiico in nil political circled witli'm u few ilnya, ahull uo rcili.eil by the events of tho next few weeks the result will fur towards tho loading id oiia of tho democratic campaign, wliilo it will amount to a practical defeat of Illiiino and Morton and the bloody shirt crusade, upon which they ciiGftRri! nt tho outset of the ennvatjd m the only hopo of their party. Shoulil tho new president accept the verdict of the election aa in reality it rends, and frown upon tho attempt to maintain tho sectional distinction;) which prow out of the "" iuluuiji'; uiu iiu ui liiu peopic of South Carolina and Louisiana, as declared in the Nicholls and Hampton Hamp-ton stato governments, and thus put tho people of tho south on their good boliavior, ho will havo Bucceedcdjia carrying out a very important portion por-tion of the work which it was expected ex-pected Mr. Xilden'a administration would accomplish should ho have reached tho wliilo house- It such a feeling of conciliation and peace should he earnestly adopted and pursued pur-sued by Mr. Hayes it would go far to Hoftcn democratic disappointments find lessen tho bitter opposition to 1 the new administration which, owing ' lo tho doubtful title to the presidency, is likely to render the chair of state n BtvUol thnruB. The diflieulty of cutting looao from tho men and tho intluences within bis party to whom Mv. Hayes will mainly owo his final success should not, however, bo lost sight of. The Chandlers and .Mortons and Blaine and (Ha rii elds and Sargeuts aro yet tho master spirits of republicanism, and if Mr. Hayes has in him the making ol a radical re form or, this quality has yet 10 bo publicly exhibited. ex-hibited. Evidently ho possesses the valuable- gilt of reticence, but it is to bo feared it is rather the result of an inert and negative mind than of that force of character whose original opinions are acted rather than! spoken. It is probable that if left to j himself Mr. Hayes would choose the' broad puliey oi peace and reconciliation reconcilia-tion willi tiio south; but he has been . placed in position in the faeo of this I policy, through,tho leadership and I management of tho men whose prin-1 cipal claim to statesmanship rests on tho sectional idea of republicanism, and to cut eft and repudiate these men and their methods wo.ild ecem to be tho disintegration of his party, which would perhaps compel him to inako alliances within the ranks of his opponent;. This cannot for a moment bo imagined as a probable result of tho inauguration of Mr. Hayes. While it would be a very rash conclusion con-clusion to accept tho outgivings from Columbus as to the policy of tho new adeainUtration without reserve, it is well known (hat tho republican necessities ne-cessities just at thid time are heavy i and pressing, and it is very probable'! that tbcie will bo no great op-'' position to the policy of tho ! recognition of Wado Hampton l as govuuor of South Carolina, and perhans ot Nicholis as governor of Louisiana. It u to be hoped, how-j' ever, that the democrats of those !t states wilt not forget that they are ! dealing with a party whose leaders'1- oaro provea inconsistent and treacherous treach-erous in tho past, and are likely to hesitate at no meanness in the future t.i maintain, their asccud.iu.cy. All their promises should bo put in blacK aud white beforo the consideration 0f the contract has passed into their bands irrevocably. Whatever tho r-uth cau wrench out of the hands of Hayes will probably havo to corns through Chandler and Morton, and : will be clear gain to that long-suflor ; ire and distracted section of tho country. Let the southern pciplc not be deceived by the fl.-.ttery of the fanatical class, or permit themselves ! to be bnlldez.-d by promises never intended to bapsriormed. Whatever t favors they get will be due to their ' own manliness and self-assertion, no; 1 to the leuiency of the party which has stolen tho presidency by fraud u- r lently reversing their own noble 'l verdict for Tilden and dom-icracv. |